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Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little ‘bytes’ of information to hopefully make your computing life easier

The safest way to open and save documents in school is through My Computer and your H: drive, not through My Documents. Because of the way our system is designed, there are occasional (and not consistent) times when opening or saving through My [...]

Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little ‘bytes’ of information to hopefully make your computing life easier

If you have ever found yourself typing, and suddenly realized that what you were typing was replacing the text in your document, the culprit is most likely the Insert key. This happens most frequently in email or Word, and happens if you accidentally [...]

Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little ‘bytes’ of information to hopefully make your computing life easier

When you login in school, you automatically connect to a series of network drives, which are available for various purposes. To see what drives you connect to, double-click My Computer on the desktop, and look for the following:

Here is what each [...]

Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little “bytes” of information to help make your computing life easier.

All computer files use a 3-letter suffix to help the computer figure out what type of file it is. When saving, the file extension should be created automatically for you. It is a good habit to make sure your files have the [...]

Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little Tips to Hopefully Help Make Your Computing Life Easier

On District computers, you do not have control over the desktop or Start menu. You can create and mange icons in the Quick Launch Bar, found right next to the Start menu:

You can drag a shortcut for a program, a folder or a [...]

Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little Tips to Hopefully Help Make Your Computing Life Easier

Staff has access to the same locker that students do in WITS. To attach something to your WITS Locker, do the following:

a1: Click the “Personal” tab
a2: Click “My Documents” on the left
B: Click on “Add Document”
C: Click “Browse” in the window that [...]

Tuesday’s Technology Tip
Little Tips to Hopefully Help Make Your Computing Life Easier

You’ve used the Internet for a long time – but have you used tabs to keep your browsing less window-messy?

Whether you are using Firefox (which started the idea of tabbed browsing) or Internet Explorer, you can open new web pages in tabs, [...]

Keyboard shortcuts are nifty ways to get things done quickly on the computer. On any keyboard with the Windows key (just to the left of the Alt key, with the Windows logo), here are a few shortcuts you may find helpful:

Press
To

Display or hide the Start menu.

Windows key + D
Show the desktop

Windows key + M
Minimize all [...]

Sometimes a program will stop responding (such as Internet Explorer), while you have work open in other programs. The Windows Task Manager lets you choose a specific program to end, while leaving other programs alone.

To use the Windows Task Manager:

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete while logged in
Click on Task Manager
In the window that appears, click on the [...]

You can create a PDF (Portable Document Format) file of any computer file. PDF files are easier to share with other computer users as there is less worry if they have the same software you do. Click on the link below to see how to create a PDF file. Hat tip once again to [...]