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Create a signature in Outlook
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You can create a personalized signature for your email messages that include text, images, your electronic business card, a logo, or even an image of your handwritten signature. Your signature can...
Create a Table in Excel
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Organizing your data in a table makes managing more data easier. Tables can be filtered and can allow for simpler calculations, among other advantages. This article outlines creating a table in Excel...
Create a Table of Contents in Word
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This article covers how to create and update a Table of Contents in Microsoft Office Word 2016, though the steps are similar to those in 2013. 1. With your document open, select the "References" tab...
Creating a Timeline in Excel
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Excel offers many tools and charts, timelines being one class of these. There are multiple layouts for timelines in Excel, and this article shows you how to create them. Though this tutorial uses...
Creating and Using Windows Sticky Notes
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Sticky notes are already on your NMU ThinkPad and are useful tools for remembering information. Once you write on a sticky note it will contain that information when you restart your computer or...
Creating Folders in Outlook
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Creating folders in Microsoft Outlook is an easy way to organize your e-mail. It is important to note, however, that unless you are a faculty or staff member using Microsoft Exchange, these folders...
Creating Quick Notes in OneNote
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OneNote is part of the Microsoft Office suite pre-installed on NMU-issued computers used for free-form information gathering. You can also use it to create and store quick notes. Be sure you're using...
Creating Rules in Outlook
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According to a 2012 report the Mckinsey Global Institute found that, on average, workers spent 28% of their work week reading and answering e-mails. Staying organized is extremely important when...
Customizing the Windows Notification Area
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You can choose what displays on the notification area of the taskbar. 1. Right-click on the date and time display on the taskbar and select "Customize notification icons." 2. There are a few...
Disable Random Hardware Address in Windows 10
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Some application settings or other issues might cause Windows 10 to enable randomized hardware addresses, which will cause issues with your registration to NMU's network. To disable this feature,...
Display Bookmarks and Favorites in your Internet Browser
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Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Google Chrome Safari Mozilla Firefox Compatability: Windows OS, Apple IOS, and Linux Note: For each version of Windows the Mozilla Firefox...
Drag and Drop Back Up Method
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Drag and Drop Back-Up MethodThere are many ways to back up your computer. The drag-and-drop method is a popular one. It is recommended that you do a backup at least once a month. That way, if...
Exporting an NMU.EDU or Exchange Account Mailbox Using Outlook
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Exporting the contents of the NMU.EDU account mailbox (viewable at Webmail) or the Microsoft Exchange account mailbox (viewable using OWA) to an Outlook pst file is a way to save the mail messages,...
External Display Projection Options in Windows
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There are multiple ways to give a presentation or use an external display with your computer. To change how your projector, monitor, or other external display works with your computer, connect your...
Filtering NMU Announcements in Outlook
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NMU faculty and staff receive many email announcements throughout the day that end up in their inbox with the rest of their mail. Outlook can use rules to help filter such messages. Here are...
Formatting Images in Word
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Microsoft Word gives you many options when formatting a document that includes images. This tutorial will give you an overview of those options. Once you have your picture on the document (Ctrl+V...
Formatting Word Mail Merge Values in Excel
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Occasionally some numbers in Excel don't format correctly in Word when using the mail merge feature under the Mailings tab. Follow these steps to resolve this issue before your merge. 1. First,...
Giving and Removing Permissions in Outlook
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If you have an Exchange mailbox you can give others different levels of permission to access your calendar or other items in Outlook. You can also view, remove, or change those permissions at any...
How Defragmenting Works
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When a program saves a file on a disk, it puts the file into an empty space on the disk. When it saves changes to the file, it saves the changes to another empty space on the disk. Each time it saves...
How to set Track Changes in Microsoft Word
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Track Changes is a built in feature in Microsoft Word which allows you to see the changes that were made to the document. To view changes, or to edit a document with them, follow the instructions...