by Charles Hall | Dec 16, 2014 | Computer, Email & Internet
Microsoft’s Clip Art, long a staple of presentations from the classroom to board rooms, is finally at its end, joining the ranks of Clippy, Geocities, and the abacus. Those sometimes-peculiar yet familiar images that the earliest memories of PowerPoint and Word...
by Charles Hall | Nov 6, 2014 | Computer
If you’re using one of the new Dell Optiplex 9020 (or similar Dell All-in-One), you can make some quick adjustments to the display to make your screen provide more accurate colours, while reducing the glare of the display. To get started, right-click on your...
by Charles Hall | Jun 13, 2014 | Computer
*Updated January 2018* Your employee computer at Vanier includes Microsoft Office, enabling you to use all the common productivity tools included in it, like Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. However, you are also eligible to install Office on your home computer,...
by | May 29, 2014 | Computer
If you send an Microsoft Word or PowerPoint file that has many graphics inserted in it, or especially if your Word/PowerPoint file has relatively high-resolution photos inserted into it that you took with your own camera, you may find that it takes well over 10...
by Charles Hall | May 6, 2014 | Computer, Email & Internet, Security
Internet privacy is an especially hot topic these days, between surveillance programs, social network tracking, and the Heartbleed SSL bug. While websites are getting more secure, hackers themselves are also smarter than before. In 2005, 1.6 million identity theft...
by Charles Hall | May 3, 2014 | Computer
When sharing a document with people, especially by email, there are several advantages to sending it as a PDF (Portable Document Format) instead of as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, or Keynote document. The greatest advantage is that your content is locked...
