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Four Favourite Free Online Image and Icon Collections
These are my go-to four favourite online website that I visit when I am looking for an image, graphic, or icon to use when writing a blog posts or teaching a class: Four Fave Free Options: Pixabay – Over 1 million stock images that you can “copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for …
Read onFree Access to Thousands of Online Courses with GVPL Card
Did you know that you have access to thousands of top quality online courses for free with your Greater Victoria Public Library (GVPL) card? Public Library cardholders in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada have access to more than 3,500 courses and approximately 144,000 video tutorials on the an online learning platform, Lynda.com. All you need to do …
Read onTop Six Best Random Text Generators
I’m grateful Microsoft changed the random text up and we don’t have to stare at paragraphs of “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” anymore. I do like that the sample text that is inserted into a Word 2016 document when you type =rand() is informative, and offers tips on new features in Word 2016. However I’m starting …
Read onMy Strategy to Switch from OneNote 2016 to OneNote for Windows 10
This post is inspired by an inspiring tweet from Craig McBain (@CVSTech) where he shared a big step he took recently to use OneNote 2016 less, and the OneNote for Windows 10 App more. What He Did: “unpinning OneNote 2016 from my taskbar and pinning the OneNote app” It is a big step, and a great idea! I …
Read onList of SharePoint Resources
I was recently asked by a fellow Victoria Office 365 Users Group member: “Can you recommend a forum where I can go for questions in regard to SharePoint functionality?” My response was: When I am seeking answers about SharePoint, these are the publicly accessible sites and forums that I visit: Microsoft SharePoint Support Microsoft SharePoint …
Read onUsing the OneNote Outlook Meeting Details Feature in a Teams OneNote Notebook
I was delighted to be invited to be part of a Q&A session with my friends and fellow techies Heather Severino and Alec McCauley, organized by Jared DeCamp, as part of his Learn Teams Conference 2018 (a free online event which ran from April 3-7, 2018). The post-conference event gave attendees an opportunity to ask us …
Read onOneNote Customized Inking Pens Travel With You Across Devices and Office Programs
Opened up OneNote for Windows 10 as I found some fun new bullet journal inspiration on Pinterest that I wanted to try my hand at duplicating using the OneNote Inking pens. To my delight there was a new feature pop-up stating that customized pens will now travel with you across devices! The announcement says: “Choose …
Read onHow to Make the OneNote Web Clipper Icon Visible in your Chrome Browser
Some time ago my OneNote Web Clipper extension for my Google Chrome browser disappeared. I was rather annoyed that I had to click on the vertical three dots icon to access theClip to OneNote button. I lived with this annoyance for over 6 months before feeling compelled to figure it out. It was an embarrassingly …
Read onResize and Move Images Around in OneNote for Android
My Android phone received three new features in February 2018: Resize and organize Lasso select Better support when handwriting notes I’m often late to the party, but always game to try new things so let’s take each of these for a spin in my next three posts. In this post I’ll review the Resize and Organize …
Read onUsing the Recipe Option in the OneNote Web Clipper
I am amazed how tools that I use every day continue to provide surprises. I stumbled upon one the other day when using the OneNote Web Clipper. The OneNote Web Clipper extension for the Chrome browser is a huge time saver that makes collecting and organizing research easy. I find the Clip to OneNote interface simple …
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