Microsoft Imagine Academy

Tech’ top tips – #54. Imagine yourself enhancing your Digital Capabilities

Ian Pettit

This tip is provided by the Centre for Enhancing Learning through Technology (CELT). The images in this post will expand when clicked.

All DMU colleagues and students are eligible to complete IT Training with the Microsoft Imagine Academy. Whether it be brushing up on your word processing skills to learning about servers, databases and networking; the Microsoft Imagine Academy offers around 1,300 courses that are available in a number of languages.

Microsoft Imagine AcademyStudents and colleagues can enrol on up to three Microsoft courses simultaneously, further details and the full catalogue can be viewed here https://library.dmu.ac.uk/celt/home

Upon completion, a Microsoft certification will be issued and this is a great way to complement your DMU degree course (students) or add to you Continued Professional Development portfolio (staff).

Tech’ top tips – #20. MS Word tip – Add a landscape page

Sukhtinder

This tip is provided by the Centre for Enhancing Learning through Technology (CELT).MS word decoration picture

You have a MS Word document and you need to add some information or data that won’t ‘fit’ in the ‘portrait page layout in your long document. You can insert this content in the landscape layout keeping all you other page layouts as portrait. Follow the simple steps below to do this!

  1. First to help you see ‘markers’ in your pages, under the Home tab select ‘Show/Hide paragraph marks’ button  – this will help you view any ‘section breaks’ in your document.
 Show/Hide paragraph markers
2. Scroll to the end of the page where you want the next page to be portrait (so if page 12 is to be landscape, go to the end of page 11.

3. Click the ‘Layout‘ in the ribbon and then select ‘Breaks‘

4. From the ‘Breaks’ drop-down menu select ‘Next Page’ – you will be able to view the marker ‘:::::: Section Break (Next Page):::::’ at the end of a page.

5. Repeat step 4 so that you have a blank page. This ensures that a landscape page is added and that the next page layout retain as portrait.

6. In the Layout ribbon select ‘Orientation‘ and choose ‘Landscape‘.

7. Add/Insert your content in the Landscape page.

Remember you always have the ‘Undo’ button if it’s not quite right!

Save your document when you’re happy with it!

 Layouts Breaks

Tech’ top tips – #10. Imagine a world of IT training at your fingertips

Ian Pettit

This tip is provided by the Centre for Enhancing Learning through Technology (CELT).

All DMU colleagues and students are eligible to complete IT Training with the Microsoft Imagine Academy. Whether it be brushing up on your word processing skills to learning about servers, databases and networking; the Microsoft Imagine Academy offers around 1,300 courses that are available in a number of languages.

Microsoft Imagine AcademyStudents and colleagues can enrol on up to three Microsoft courses simultaneously, further details and the full catalogue can be viewed here https://libguides.library.dmu.ac.uk/it-induction-and-support

Upon completion, a Microsoft certification will be issued and this is a great way to complement your DMU degree course (students) or add to you Continued Professional Development portfolio (staff).