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Storing your Documents

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.

Sign PDFs Electronically

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.

Reopen Closed Tabs

Accidentally closed a browser tab? Rewind time and reopen your last closed browser tab with this handy keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + T.

Rate Your Document's Readability

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.

Find Missing Outlook Folders

Every now and then an Outlook folder will go missing. You know it used to be there, but now it's disappeared. Often, the folder has simply been accidentally moved underneath another Outlook folder without you realizing it, and while you can still find an email through search, you can't figure out where it's hiding.  If this has happened to you, here is the way to find your folder.

Junk Email Handling

Do you receive important emails that are sent to your junk email folder?  Do you receive a lot of junk email that you'd like to automatically sort into your junk email folder?  Good news, you can customize Outlook to handle your junk and non-junk email.

Contact Sympa List Owners

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.

Conduct Surveys with Qualtrics

UC Davis now has a campus-wide solution for surveys: Qualtrics Research Suite. Qualtrics is similar to other web-based survey tools, such as Survey Monkey or Survey Gizmo.