Simple monthly computer tips and tricks to make you a computer wizard!
- 🆘 Writing Good Helpdesk Tickets - Get the right help faster from IT by starting interactions with a good ticket.
- 🌩️ Be "Cloud Fail" Resilient - Don't let an application outage result in a full department outage!
- 🔑 Maintain Access to Your Online Accounts - Don't let a computer crash prevent you from accessing your online accounts.
- 🔗 Create and add an email signature in Outlook - Includes instructions for New Outlook, Classic Outlook, and Outlook on the web.
- 🦻 PDFs and Screen Readers Accessibility Demo - Materials from May's PDF - screen reader accessibility demonstrations. Includes examples, instructions on how to use them, and instructions on how to fix them!
- 📌 Pin to Taskbar in Windows 11
- 🔗 How to Clear Cache for All Major Browsers - With more and more applications moving to the web browser, many problems experienced after significant application updates can be fixed by simply clearing your browser cache.
- 🔗 Clipchamp - A free, easy to use video editor for doing simple video edits.
- 🛑 Stop Printing and Scanning to Create PDFs
- 🔗 FreePDF.net - A web version of several PDF tools available in the PDFill PDF Tools Windows application.
- 🔗 PAVE - PDF Accessibility Validation Engine - A web application that identifies issues with PDF documents and helps fix them!
- 🗣️ Read Out Loud in Adobe Acrobat Reader
- 📝 Writing Good Alternative Text
- 🔗 Improve Accessibility with the Accessibility Checker - Built into Microsoft Office, a tool to check for accessibility issues in your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
- 🔗 Who Can Use - Simulates how the foreground and background colour choices in your documents and publications are perceived by readers with visual impairments like colour blindness.
- 🖼️ Image Types
- 😱 The Dangers of Improper Redactions
- ⬇️ paint.net - A powerful, free photo editor. Windows only!
- 🔗 apps.diagrams.net - An easy-to-use flowchart and diagramming tool, right in your web browser.
👶 Our first month of tips!
- 💡 Bringing a Table on the Web into Excel
- ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows
- 🧹 Annual Digital Cleanup
- 🔗 DinoPass - A website that generates easy to remember passwords.
- 🤪 "Yesterday's storm was so cold, my computer froze. It was my own fault though. I had too many windows open."
- IT Workshops - Past workshop resources led by the IT department.
Working in IT, questions come across our desks every day. Some of those questions may seem trivial to someone with a bit of savvy in the subject matter, but the simple answers can sometimes drastically change how the person asking does their work and solves their problems.
Rather than just sending then discarding those mini how-tos, this project shares them with the hope to empower users with the answers to the questions they may think are too silly to ask.
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