Does your department have a weekly seminar for graduate students? Does your graduate student association have regular meetings? If so, plan to invite an ETDR consultant to one of your meetings to review the best ways to use Microsoft Word to format your electronic thesis, dissertation, or report (ETDR). Continue reading “Graduate students: Invite an ETDR consultant to your meetings”
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Grad students: Don’t miss the ETDR Overview
The Graduate School and the Information Technology Assistance Center are offering a one-hour overview of the electronic theses, dissertations, and reports program (ETDR). The sessions will be on these dates:
- Friday, Sept. 21, 2-3 p.m.
- Monday, Oct. 1, 11 a.m.-noon
Both sessions will be in the Town Hall of the Leadership Studies Building. Continue reading “Grad students: Don’t miss the ETDR Overview”
Excel tip: Counting cells
When working with data in a spreadsheet, you will often want to count how many cells are in a particular section. The count function in excel lets you count:
- cells with numbers
- blank cells
- cells with text
Watch the video below to learn about the various count functions.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsUTFVNu9HU
For more tips on the use of MS Excel, check out the Excel blog.
OnLive Desktop: Windows and Microsoft Office on iPads
If you have ever wanted to have the same Windows desktop on all of your devices, the era is near. OnLive is supplying an application where you can access a Windows 7 desktop with Microsoft Office 2010 for free. Currently the OnLive Desktop is only available for iPad, but the company has plans to expand the application to Android, Windows, and Mac operating systems.
What exactly is OnLive Desktop? In short, it is a Windows PC in the cloud. You can access it from anywhere you have Internet access. OnLive gives you access to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as 2GB of storage space in the free version. In the future when the application is available for multiple devices, you will be able to access the same desktop from all of your different devices.
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CloudOn: Free iPad app for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
CloudOn is a free iPad app for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can easily create and edit documents on your iPad.
CloudOn uses Dropbox for all document management tasks. Therefore, prior to installing CloudOn, create a Dropbox account and install the Dropbox iPad app. Watch the following video for an overview of the app.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FQYI30QaQ&feature=youtu.be&a
Microsoft Access training classes in November
iTAC is offering Microsoft Access (database) classes for all K-Staters in the month of November. The schedule is:
- Monday, Nov. 1, 9-11 a.m. in Fairchild 9 – Introduction to Access 2007
- Thursday, Nov. 4, 1-3 p.m. in Hale 301 – Basic Tables in Access 2007
- Friday, Nov. 5, 1-3 p.m. in Hale 301 – Basic Queries in Access 2007
- Thursday, Nov. 11, 1-3 p.m. in Hale 301 – Basic Forms in Access 2007
- Friday, Nov. 12, 1-3 p.m. in Hale 301 – Basic Reports in Access 2007
If you are interested in attending one of these sessions, see the Technology Training website for course announcements or contact bcad@k-state.edu with the date and class you plan to attend.
Free Microsoft Office training for all K-Staters
The schedule for Microsoft Office training has been finalized for September through December. The full technology training calendar is online with more details. September and November will focus on Microsoft Access database, and October will focus on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Registration for all Microsoft Office sessions is free and open to all of the K-State community. You may register through the Technology Training website to reserve your seat now!
This week’s Intro to MS Access class has new time
The Introduction to Microsoft Access class is now scheduled for 8:30-10:30 a.m. this Wednesday, Aug. 18, in Fairchild 9. Bring a database project to class; one lucky winner will have their project evaluated as part of the class.
This session will give an overview of:
- Basic database terminology and principles
- Creating tables
- Creating simple queries
- Creating simple forms
- Creating simple reports
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Microsoft Office training: 2 more classes, 1 time change
In addition to the Microsoft Office training classes advertised last week, the following class changes have occurred:
- Added: Beginning Word 2007 class, 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, June 30, in Fairchild 9A
- Time change: Intermediate Word 2007 class has been rescheduled from Wednesday, June 30, to Friday, July 2
- Added: Introduction to Access 2007 class, 9-11 a.m. Friday, July 9, in Fairchild 9A
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Major professors: Encourage grad students to start writing in the ETDR template
More than 40 percent of graduate students come to iTAC for individual help in formatting their electronic theses, dissertations, and reports (ETDRs). Many of these students visit us when they’ve completed their writing, and say their major professor told them they most now put their completed paper into the ETDR template. If you want to help your students focus on their research and the content of their paper, steer them toward using the ETDR template from the very beginning.
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