Resolutions come and go, but one that seems to hang around from year to year is “get organized.” The new year brings what many of us perceive as a fresh start for doing something new, or doing something better. Sometimes we make resolutions that are wildly impractical, and sometimes we set the bar so low,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Tips
The Right Technology for the Task
Giving some thought to how we use technology. This is not so much a blog entry about technology as a prompting for some common sense. It is so easy to get enthralled by the “latest and greatest” gadget that we don’t see some of its shortcomings. We can check our e-mail, catch up on the… Read more »
Importance of Data Backup
In today’s fast moving world losing data is no laughing matter. Hardware failure, theft, and even fire and other accidents, can cause data to be lost. Sometimes the data can be recreated or replaced by an older copy, but what can be done about data that is lost forever? Backup! backup! backup! It’s the key…. Read more »
GSU Resources for Tech Skills
Did you know the University IS&T has an Instructional Design department that provides technology and software training to faculty, staff and students on campus? Has Office 2010 thrown you for a loop? If you got a new laptop this year and find yourself hunting through Microsoft “ribbons” for the tools you need, consider taking advantage of… Read more »
Three ways to address information overload
Information flows in amazing quantity and speed, and we need ways to manage it. Here are three quick tips, one for information coming at us (e-mail), one for filtering information we want (news), and one for keeping and sharing information we create (notes, etc). E-mail Set up rules to filter non-urgent e-mail into folders or forward… Read more »
Faculty and Staff: University Switch to Office 365
On July 5, the University will complete a switch from Novell Groupwise to Microsoft Office 365. This change will only affect faculty and staff. As you may have heard, University IS&T has been working with the Colleges to switch from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook). You should find that Outlook is an improvement… Read more »
More Office 2010 Sessions
Stop by the Training Lab, Room 603, on Wednesday, 9/15 any time between 10:00AM and 5:30PM for an all day Office 2010 drop in session. Bring your questions about Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when you drop by. The Training Lab will have a technologist available to help you throughout the day.
Faculty/Staff Office 2007 Brown Bag Lunch
Faculty and staff: Bring your lunch and your Office 2007 questions to the Faculty Conference Room on Wednesday, February 10th at noon. This brown bag lunch will cover the ribbon menus in Office 2007, provide links to interactive menu tutorials, and answer general “How do I do this in Office 2007?” questions. See you there!
Office 2007
All College of Law computers now have Office 2007 installed. Many members of the College of Law Community have had some experience with Office 2007. If you have not, please visit the Microsoft Interactive Word 2003 to 2007 guide online,PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 guide, or the Excel 2003 to 2007 guide. The Office Button replaces the File menu. For help… Read more »
New Anti-virus Software
Georgia State University is implementing new anti-virus software – McAfee VirusScan. All Georgia State students, faculty and staff should update to McAfee by January 15, 2010. For more information and download instructions for McAfee, visithttp://www.gsu.edu/help/antivirus.html. Please note that the new anti-virus software is available for Windows-based computers only. Georgia State will notify students as soon as a… Read more »