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• How to create your own class blog or website for free

  11 Aug 2011

  You’ve got information you want to share with your students, and online seems to be the place to go. Queue WordPress and Windows Live Writer—with these tools you can easily create and manage your very own blog . Did I mention that it’s easy? Oh, and did I double mention that it’s...
• Keep your name from looking like a spelling mistake (video)

  22 Mar 2011

  Does your name appear as a spelling mistake in Word? Then you're not alone. As part of our Call-to-Action campaign , I recently asked our Microsoft Student Facebook friends to share their Word pet peeves. And this pet peeve was top of the list. Luckily, there's a quick fix. Right-click the word and then...
• Share class newsletters with parents via Windows Live Hotmail (video)

  16 Feb 2011

  When you attach a Word document in e-mail, Word Web App lets Hotmail recipients view the attachment in their web browser . They don’t even need Microsoft Word installed on their computer. This is a handy feature that lets my son’s kindergarten teacher share her class newsletter with me. As...
• Do you love job offers? Resume tips that get you there

  7 Feb 2011

  Are you planning a summer internship or preparing to enter the workforce when you graduate this year? If so, now’s the time to spit polish your resume and get it out there. Don't wait until spring or, even worse, wait until you've actually graduated before you start sending your resume out to potential...
• ¿Es correcto? Office checks your spelling in other languages

  3 Feb 2011

  The spell check feature in Office isn’t just for research papers and essays. Use it to catch mistakes in your foreign language homework too! Don’t lose points on your vocabulary exercises or compositions because you forgot to include an accent mark or misspelled the plural form of a vocabulary...
• Blinded me with science: Introducing the Chemistry Add-in for Word

  1 Feb 2011

  Want to build your own molecule image and add it to your research paper? Or how about add subscripts and superscripts to electrons and isotopes? Today, you can. Microsoft Research just released version 1.0 of their Chemistry Add-in for Word . Similar to the Mathematics Add-in for Word , when you install...
• Be better prepared: Create a winter quarter exam calendar

  27 Dec 2010

  For many of you, January marks the start of winter quarter. You've got a whole new set of classes and maybe even a New Year's resolution to get better grades. I've got one tip to help you achieve that goal. (It's going to sound simple. But, hey, simple is simple for a reason.) In college, tests have...
• How to insert symbols and special characters into a Word document (video)

  3 Dec 2010

  Do you need to use a Euro symbol in an economics paper? How about a Celsius degree in a lab report? Or, maybe you need to insert special characters into your math homework. I recently discovered the Math AutoCorrect feature in Word and realized that I could use it for more than just math stuff. Math...
• Solve equations and plot graphs in Word and OneNote (video)

  4 Oct 2010

  Did you know that you can insert professionally formatted formulas and equations into your Word documents ? That means you can do your math homework in Word and not get docked points for your illegible handwriting. In addition to that, the free Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote lets you...
• MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

  22 Sep 2010

  [ Author's note: Office 2010 Service Pack 1 includes updates to the Word 2010 Citations & Bibliography group. After installing the service pack you'll notice the new bibliography styles: APA 6th Edition, MLA 7th Edition, Harvard- Anglia 2008, and IEEE 2006. Screenshots in this blog post have been...