Friday, February 13, 2009

Tegrity unavailable Monday, Feb 16th - Thursday, Feb 19th

During The College February break we will be conducting maintenance on the Tegrity server. The server will be unreachable from Monday, Feb 16th - Thursday, Feb 19th.

If you would like to review recordings during the outage you may choose to download the recording to your computer.

If you are going to be recording during the outage, the recording will be saved locally to your computer and should upload after the server becomes available again.

New Helpdesk Plotter


New Service and Devices at the Helpdesk


Using Built-in Add-In Programs in Excel 2007

Add-in programs are small modules that extend the power of Excel 2007 by giving you access to a wide array of features and calculating functions not otherwise offered in the application. There are three different types of add-ins:
  • Built-in add-ins available when you install Excel 2007.
  • Add-ins that you download for Excel 2007 from Microsoft Office Online.
  • Add-ins developed by third-party vendors for Excel 2007 that often must be purchased.

When you first install Excel 2007, the built-in add-in programs included with Excel 2007 are not loaded and therefore are not yet ready to use. To load any or all of these built-in add-in programs, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Office button and then click the Excel Options button.
    The Excel Options dialog box appears.
  2. Click the Add-Ins tab.
    The Add-Ins tab lists all the names, locations, and types of the add-ins to which you have access.
  3. At the bottom, select Excel Add-Ins from the Manage drop-down box and click Go.
    Excel opens the Add-Ins dialog box showing all the names of the built-in add-in programs you can load.

Rearrange Your PowerPoint 2007 Slides

In PowerPoint 2007 to see an overall view of your presentation, you need to work in Slide Sorter View. From there you can rearrange the slides in your PowerPoint presentation.

You can switch to Slide Sorter View in two easy ways:

  • Click the Slide Sorter button at the right side of the status bar.
  • Select the View tab on the Ribbon and then click the Slide Sorter button in the Presentation Views group.


The PowerPoint Slide Sorter View is shown here. The following list tells you how to rearrange, add, or delete slides from Slide Sorter View:

  • Move a slide: Point to the slide and then hold down the left mouse button. Drag the slide to its new location and release the button.
  • Delete a slide: To delete a slide, click the slide to select it and then press Delete or Backspace.
  • Add a new slide: Click the slide that you want the new slide to follow and then click the New Slide button. The Slide Layout task pane appears so that you can select the layout for the new slide.

If your presentation contains more slides than can fit on-screen at one time, use the scroll bars to scroll through the display. Or you can use the zoom slider at the bottom right corner of the screen to make the slides smaller.

Blackboard Training

The Helpdesk Training website has tutorials on how to use Blackboard.
Training link: http://www2.smumn.edu/helpdesk/training/
Shortcut to Blackboard link:
http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~instructtech/sitefiles/general_tut_list.htm#blackboard