Tag: microsoft office

UP Tech Tip: Use Outlook Scheduling Assistant to Find Meeting Time

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Today’s UP Tech Tip shows an easy way to see anyone with a UP email address’ calendar free and busy time. You can use this feature to quickly narrow down potential meeting times without sending multiple emails back and forth or setting up a shared calendar. This feature works for any UP email address and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Use Outlook Scheduling Assistant to Find Meeting Time

UP Tech Tip – Sort and Filter Data in Excel

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Excel is a powerful tool for helping us record and analyze data. Whether you’re recording research results or keeping track of grades, one of the most useful and basic Excel skills is to be able to sort and filter data.  Today’s UP Tech Tip, courtesy of Microsoft, covers how you can sort data to group…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip – Sort and Filter Data in Excel

UP Tech Tip: Tablets + Office = Easy Annotation

Every faculty member at UP has an Office 365 account, and many also have an iPad, Android tablet, or Microsoft Surface. Like peanut butter and chocolate, Office and tablets are two tech flavors that work really well together. In today’s UP Tech Tip, I wanted to demo using Office Mobile apps (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) on an iPad to easily…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Tablets + Office = Easy Annotation

UP Tech Tip: Migrate Google Drive docs to Office 365

This tech tip is for any faculty (or students, staff, etc…) who have been using personal Google accounts to store documents and data and work in the cloud. You may want to leverage work you’ve done in the past and use your UP Office 365 account to share and collaborate with peers at UP –…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Migrate Google Drive docs to Office 365

MS Office and Accessibility

The accessibility checker inspection results list in Word 2013. It lists 2 errors, "missing alt text", and "no header row specified"

Educators use Microsoft Office to deliver a wide range of material — syllabi and other vital class documents in Word, slide decks in PowerPoint, and more. With Office 365 coming to campus, now is a great time for a reminder and refresher on the importance of creating documents that are accessible to a diverse audience. Creating documents in an…Continue Reading MS Office and Accessibility