Sympa is a useful tool that any staff or faculty member can use to create and manage their own mailing lists. Because anyone can create Sympa lists, you may not always know whom to contact to be added or removed from a list. For this reason, every Sympa list has a special address that can be used to contact only the list owners.
The staff within FOA ( Finance, Operations and Administration) should have access to their own 'home' drive. Depending on your unit this drive will most likely appear as an H:\ drive.
The holidays are here, and unlike your colleagues, you've saved your vacation hours. When they're emailing you about some lab inspection or another, you'll be sitting in front of a fire, drinking eggnog, and letting Office 365's Out of Office Assistant tell them that you've got better things to worry about.
Outlook calendars provide a space for your team to efficiently communicate the scheduling of shared resources (e.g. conference rooms, hoteling spaces, vehicles) and shared calendars (e.g. vacation).
How you write can vary a lot, depending on your intended audience. Lengthy words and complex sentence structures may suffice for an audience of academics, while other occasions may require the text to be readable to as many people as possible.
Begin by opening a Windows Explorer window, which is often in the Windows taskbar and can also be found by searching for 'File Explorer' from the start menu.
Edit the address by clicking on an empty area of the address field or by using the Ctrl + L keyboard shortcut. Put ‘\\foa-print\ in the address field, hit enter, and you’ll receive a list of all the networked FOA printers
When you need to sign a PDF file and would like to avoid the trouble of printing, signing, and scanning the page, consider using Adobe Acrobat’s signature tools. Access these tools by clicking the Fill & Sign button near the upper right-hand corner of the Acrobat window.
Improve your email searches by including one of Outlook’s built-in keywords in front of your search phrase to narrow your results. These keywords can help focus your search results on a variety of email attributes including sender, receiver, subject, date, message size, and many others.
While in presentation mode, PowerPoint provides a number of tools to help presenters capture and redirect audience attention. Beyond simply stepping through slides, PowerPoint has a number of tools and shortcuts that can mark slides, zoom in on points of interest, or blank the screen so that the presenter can shift focus away from the screen itself.
Keep text copied from web pages consistent with your document’s formatting by choosing the paste method that’s right for you by selecting one of these options when right-clicking to paste text.
There are several ways to use your keyboard to scroll up and down in web pages on your internet browser without using a mouse. Very helpful when using a laptop or tablet with the keyboard and you’ve left your mouse at the office.
Need a quick way to permanently delete one or more messages from your mailbox? Deleted messages will normally occupy your ‘Deleted Items’ folder until it’s cleaned up. However, if you’re certain that a message is no longer needed or think that it might be dangerous, like a virus or malware, you can permanently delete an item with this quick trick.
Save yourself 1,000 words by using the Windows Snipping Tool to capture and include a screenshot of your next email or document. This handy program can be found by clicking the Start Button and typing “Snipping Tool”, which will search for and find the application in whichever version of Windows you’re using.
