Tips on this page:
Mark's Corner: From the Office Expert
Multimedia: Music and PowerPoint
Using the Internet: Cutting and Pasting from the Web
Hardware Solutions: Displaying your computer in the classroom

Tips from the Ambrose Office Expert

Here's some tips for use with Outlook, the email client:

1. Forward a contact to someone else:
       Open contacts folder, then right click on the contact you wish to send, then click forward.  A new email message will appear along with the contact as an attachment.  Enter the email address to the person you wish to forward this to, then click send.

2. Dragging Addresses:
       When composing or replying to an email message in Outlook, you can easily rearrange the names receiving the message by dragging their email addresses between the TO:, CC:, and BCC: address fields.  Just select the address and drag.  If you have errant semicolons in these three fields, you can remove them by pressing ALT+K.

3. Recalling Messages:
       Have you ever wanted to get a message back that you have already sent?
     A. Make your Folder List visible.
     B. Click Sent Items.
     C. Open the Message you wish to recall.
     D. From the menu choose Actions, then Recall this message.
     E. To recall this message, click Delete unread copies of this message, then press OK.
     F.  To be notified of the success or failure, Check 'Tell me if recall succeeds or fails...'
     G. Click OK

Spanning PowerPoint Slides With Your Music

Do you have musical excerpts or narration that you wish could run continuously behind several PowerPoint slides, but it's not on CD? Place the music on the first slide, then go to "Slide Show/Custom Animation...". There, select your music file, and click on the "Multimedia" tab. You can choose to stop the sound file after the current slide, or any number of slides after that. This selection is only available if you click the "Continue slide show" option. Additional information available from Sound in your PowerPoint.

Copying and Pasting from the Web

When students copy and paste from web pages, mixed in with the text they really wanted, they often get garbage such as banner ads, text in weird tables with merged cells, horrible graphics that are split into several pieces, etc. To copy/paste just the text from a web page:

1. In Internet Explorer, select the text you want or press <Ctrl> + "A" to select the entire page.
2. Press <Ctrl? + "C" to copy.
3. Switch to Word, then select "Edit/Paste Special."
4. Double-click "Unformatted Text." Word will paste all text in the default font, no formatting, no graphics.

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Displaying your computer in the classroom

Here's a list of methods by which you can display computer content to your class, ranked by cost: