Training, education and ongoing professional development is very important to your ongoing success at MSU. This category highlights professional development news, views and opportunities.
Welcome back! We hope you had a chance to explore and become familiar with your AFS space after watching part one of this tutorial.
The second part of the tutorial will take you through how to use your AFS space as a personal domain name, so that you can display a personal website on the internet. Enjoy!Continue Reading… A Guide to Your AFS Space – Part Two
Do you know what an AFS space is? Do you know that you have one? All faculty, staff and students with an MSU NetID are allotted 1 gigabyte of space on Michigan State University’s web server.
Your AFS space can be useful in many different ways. For example, if you need to save a document from your work computer, but you don’t have a thumb drive with you to save it on, you can upload that document into your AFS space and then access it again at home!Continue Reading… A Guide to Your AFS Space- Part One
We’ve all been using Microsoft Word forever, right? We know how it works. But new features in Word 2010 can change what we think we all know so well. The class “Word 2010 New Features” from train.msu.edu/lynda/ can help you learn all about those new features. I’ll share a few with you today.
Office 2007 brought in the “ribbon.” Love it or hate it, we all had to learn to use it. With Word 2010, you can customize it to have all the features you use most, even adding your own tabs populated with your macros. Also, Word Art was text added as a graphic, meaning you were stuck with the default styles and there was no spell check. 
Now, text effects are still text, meaning they can be spell checked and saved as text, not a graphic (see screenshot).Continue Reading… Not the same old Microsoft Word
Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed the first video tutorial for the MSU Jobs website. This second tutorial video will demonstrate even more ways that jobs.msu.edu can help you easily search and find the job that is right for you.Continue Reading… Jobs.msu.edu Tutorial Part Two
Deadlines, finances, children, traffic, computer systems…it seems it’s impossible to avoid stressful situations! The Breaking Free from Stress class taught by Lisa Laughman Davidson and Milly Gillin is a program that goes over how we each create stress in our lives and how we respond to that stress.
In the video below, Lisa Laughman Davidson introduces the class and talks about the inside-out vs. outside-in concepts of dealing with stress.Continue Reading… Are You Ready to Break Free from Stress?
The MSU Jobs website is a great resource for current and future MSU employees. If you are looking for a new opportunity to further your career, watch our video tutorial below which demonstrates some of the best ways to navigate and utilize jobs.msu.edu. This is the first video of a two-part video tutorial. Make sure to check back next month for even more information on how to use the MSU Jobs website!Continue Reading… Jobs.msu.edu Tutorial Part One
Most of our lives are run by time, but do you know how long your common tasks actually take? Today HRD facilitator Lois Wolfe-Morgan is back to give us another technique for time mastery. See if her tips can help you as you prepare for upcoming projects and work towards deadlines. Check out the video with the tips here.
For more help with time management, check out upcoming HRD classes on the SpartansLearn Portal. Lois also has a two-hour goal setting class coming up on Tuesday, February 28!
Your tech team says it’s time to replace your computer and poof! One day there’s a shiny new computer on your desk and everything you’re used to seeing is different. Train.msu.edu/lynda to the rescue!
With the University’s access to Lynda.com, you can get basic or advanced training on many software programs you use every day. In the course Word 2010 New Features, you can watch a 3 minute video on the differences between Word 2007 and Word 2010.  Did you know you can customize the ribbon of tools at the top of your screen with the options or even Macros you use most?   Editing images in your Word documents is easier, too. Word 2010 moves the image editing tools right into your document, from cropping the image to touching it up without ever leaving your document.Continue Reading… My tech team just installed a new computer at my desk, now what do I do?
Remember TrapperKeepers®? Before backpacks became the norm for students to carry everything, there were TrapperKeepers. One big spiral notebook that snapped closed so papers could not fall out and contained folders and dividers so you could keep all of your school notes in one handy place.
OneNote is part of most Microsoft Office Desktop software packages and is kind of an online TrapperKeeper. This program allows you create notebooks for projects, meetings, tasks or just screenshots of web pages.  Create a notebook, then add headings and notes, insert  a screen capture from any program on your computer, add audio, video, and other files from your computer or use a screen capture in a document, Outlook emails and meeting requests.   
Continue Reading… OneNote – your own electronic TrapperKeeper®
Sounds impressive doesn’t it? Maybe even a little intimidating? Not at all, with MSU’s access to Lynda.com you can take a free course to learn the Power Shortcuts in Excel 2010.
For example, did you know you can copy values, formulas or text  from one cell in a column then duplicate that information to every cell in that column with just a double click? No copy and pasting in hundreds of lines, no scrolling with the shift button held down, just double click on the lower-right corner of your original cell and the formulas, values or text in that cell populate the entire column.
Continue Reading… Excel 2010 Power Shortcuts
