Training Opportunities

Adding Contacts in Outlook 2000

Function Junction

Keeping It All Together

Inserting Special Characters into Documents

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Interactive Website for Tweens

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Training Opportunities

       PowerPoint XP Intermediate

US Lab

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Tech Tips: Working More Effectively

Add Contacts Quickly In Outlook 2000

If you receive an email message from a person whom you want to add to your Outlook contact list, here's a quick and easy way to do it:

• Open the email message that contains the name you want to add to your contact list.

• In the From box, right-click the name you want to make into a contact.

• Click Add To Contacts on the Shortcut menu.

This creates a new contact with that person's name and email address. You can also add any additional information you have such as a phone or fax number, and then save it in your Contacts folder for easy access.

Function Junction

When you get a message inviting you to a function, you don't have to open your Calendar, select the date and type in the information. You can drag that message onto your Calendar icon or folder. Outlook will automatically create a new appointment with the message subject as its title and insert the message text as a note. All you have to do is set the date and time, click Save and Close. Similarly, make a new task by dragging a message to the Task icon or folder.

This feature works the other way around as well. Drag an appointment, task or note to the Inbox and voila! Outlook will create a new, unaddressed message with the subject and text already inserted. Just type in the email address and click "Send". It doesn't get any easier than this!

Keeping It All Together In Word

 
In a document, it's a good practice to keep names together, but there are also times you want to keep a couple of words or more together. For example, if you type in the phrase, "thank you," "thank" could very easily appear on one line and "you" on the next line. To prevent this, you can use Word's non-breaking space. In our example, you would type "thank," then press Ctrl + Shift + Spacebar, and then type in "you." Using the non-breaking space will ensure that any name or phrase you want grouped together will always stay on the same line.

Did You Know?

A: Here is a list of the most often used special characters on your keyboard. To make a special character, hold down the Alt key and type in the number from the numeric keypad. (Note: Word will allow you to edit the Shortcut Keystroke via the Insert menu, Symbol option, Shortcut Key button so this is not so cumbersome.)

However, these "shortcuts" will work with most word processing program (Word, Works, NotePad, Word Perfect, etc.):

                                                                                      Cent ¢ --- Alt 0162
                                                                                      Trademark ™ --- Alt 0153
                                                                                      Copyright © --- Alt 0169
                                                                                      Registered trademark ® --- Alt 0174
                                                                                      One-fourth ¼ --- Alt 0188
                                                                                      One-half ½ --- Alt 0189
                                                                                      Three-fourths ¾ --- Alt 0190

For additional special characters, check out your own Character Map. Click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map. Then click on the character you would like to copy and either Select and Copy or note the keystroke in the bottom right hand corner of the window.

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Pacific Basin Consortium, the leading Asia-Pacific regional educational community of schools, fosters a world view with networking and personal connections to schools and educators, provides direct access to curriculum resources on the Asia-Pacific region, facilitates global student projects and intercultural, collaborative curriculum projects, and creates and implements regional curriculum workshops with specific focus areas for teachers.

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Interactive Websites for Tweens

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has created a new learning hub for nine- to 12-year-olds, where students can explore five interactive sites based on educational programs broadcast on public television. At “Don’t Buy It: Get Media Smart,” kids can participate in a number of games and lessons designed to teach them about media advertising and how to become smart consumers in the digital age. “It’s My Life” aims to create a place where children can discuss age-appropriate social, emotional, and physical dilemmas with peers and professionals. This solution-oriented web site provides a number of resources to help nurture students through natural growing pains. A third site, “Backyard Jungle,” moves discussion from the human body out into the natural world. Students can explore ecology and nature through this interactive site, which tours backyards nationwide. “Plastic Fork Diaries”—a product of Maryland Public Television—challenges students to be health-conscious when deciding what foods to eat. The site chronicles the eating habits of six middle school students as they consider how food affects their growing bodies. The last site, “3D&1,” is a creative designers’ playground, where students can fuse what they have learned about culture and life into creative logos meant to reflect their own individual personalities.

http://www.cpb.org/5sites

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