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If you are experiencing problems with editing a form in Microsoft Word, follow these steps to unlock it:

1. Click the Office Button (top, left corner)

2. Click “Word Options” at the very bottom, right of the drop-down box

3. Under the first tab on the right “Popular” - click “Show Developer tab in the Ribbon”

4. A new tab will appear above the top ribbon/bar called “Developer” - click there.

5. Click “Protect Document” and choose “Restrict formatting and edition” from the drop-down options

6. A “restrict Formatting and Editing” box will appear on the right side of your screen

7. Click the”Stop Protection” button at the very bottom of the box - your should now be able to edit your form

Microsoft Help (the blue question mark in the top, right corner) has great step-by-step directions and help for these problems as well.

Though the College’s Communication Center (Zimbra) has a chat feature, it does not yet accommodate group chats.  In the meantime, Gmail Chat works well for this - try these steps to set it up and see for yourself!

1. Each participant needs a gmail account
2. Whoever will be initiating the group chat should then add each person’s Gmail address to her contacts
3. It’s also helpful for the person who will be initiating the group chat to invite each participant to chat in advance
4. When it’s time to chat, begin by initiating a chat with one of the participants
5. To add more participants and begin a group chat, simply use the “options” button at the bottom of your chat window, and enter the names of the contacts you’d like to add to the chat

Tips:

• If you and/or some of your participants are new to group chat, it’s helpful to make one person’s phone number available so that if a participant is having trouble joining, he or she can call for help
• It’s also great to establish some shorthands to indicate agreement, confirmation, questions, etc. (such as entering a “!” to indicate “yes” or “I agree”)
• Though you may want to take notes by hand throughout the meeting, a transcript is also saved in your Gmail account

More information on Gmail Chat

Click on the link below for these great tips:

]]> http://techbar.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2009/09/29/laptop-borrowing/feed/ http://techbar.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2009/09/22/scanning-process-for-flatbed-scanners/ http://techbar.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2009/09/22/scanning-process-for-flatbed-scanners/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:21:09 +0000 Helen Chang http://techbar.blogs.brynmawr.edu/?p=1193 Most image editing programs (e.g. Adobe Photoshop or JASC Paint Shop Pro, etc.) have a menu at: File/Acquire or File/Import or File/Scanner that you can use to start an image scan. Sometimes there is a toolbar scanner icon too.

This menu starts the scanner’s software, called a TWAIN driver. TWAIN is a software standard that all scanner manufacturers agree to use, intended so that all image programs can operate all scanners.

If you use the image editor to start your scanner software, when the scan is completed the image can be set to open in your image editor, ready for manipulation.

Here are some step-by-step instructions on how to scan using flatbed scanners:

Users are added by going to the “Users” link in the top right corner- a user must already have signed in to blogs.brynmawr.edu before they can be added to a blog.  Once added, they receive an email with an activation link.

User Roles: What they are and what they can do:

• Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
• Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
• Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
• Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
• Subscriber - Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.

[from the Wordpress Codex]

If you are creating a new blog:

1. Log-in: If you have a Bryn Mawr College email address, logging in is easy.  Just enter your email username & password.
2. Create a new blog:  Once you’ve logged-in, you’ll see the Wordpress Dashboard.  This is where you will make changes to your blog once you’ve created it.  To create a blog go to the sign up page, pictured below.
3. Enter your blog domain name.  This name will be part of your blog’s URL, and will appear in the address bar of web browsers.  For example, the Film Studies blog URL is http://filmstudies.blogs.brynmawr.edu and the domain name that goes in this first form field would be filmstudies [see screenshot below].  The domain name should be typed as one word, must be at least 4 characters long, and it is not necessary to capitalize it (in fact, it’s better lowercase).
4. Enter your blog title.  This name will display as the title on your blog’s homepage, as well as in the title bar of your web browser [see screenshot].
5. Choose which privacy option you prefer.
6. Select a blog topic from the dropdown box- this is important for categorizing the general nature of your site.
7. Click “Create Blog >>.”

Screen shot of sign-up page

If you are joining an existing blog:

1. As above, Log-in with your Bryn Mawr College email username & password.
2. Have the administrator of the blog you want to access add you to the blog.
3. After the administrator adds you, check your email.  You’ll receive an activation link.  Click on it and your account will be activated for accessing the blog.  Depending on your user role, you may be able to post to the blog now; contact your blog admin for questions about your user role.

To start, navigate to the page you want to edit in Mozilla Firefox. If you already have the Contribute plug‐in installed, go to the upper left hand corner of the screen under
the ‘file’ tab and click ‘Edit in Contribute.’

If you do not have this plug‐in, open Contribute by searching for it under your ‘Start’ button.

Then copy the URL of the page you are currently viewing and paste it into the ‘address’ space in the middle upper portion of the welcome page of contribute and either press the ‘return’ button on your keyboard, or click ‘go’ on the Contribute page.

Now the webpage you want to edit should be showing in Contribute. If you want to navigate to another page, you can do so in Contribute, just as you would on the internet. Once you find the page you wish to edit, look at the URL space to ensure that nothing such as ‘index.html’ or ‘filename.htm’ appears at the end. If it does, erase it so that the URL ends with a ‘/’.

In order to edit your page, you must create a connection to the page within Contribute. To do so, click the ‘Create Connection’ button on the Contribute toolbar.

After you click ‘Create Connection,’ a dialogue box will appear.  Click ‘Next’ to begin.

Upon clicking ‘Next’ you will find two boxes, they should already be filled in for you. In the event they are not, you will want ‘Website’ to be filled in for the first box, and the URL of the website you want to edit in the second box.   Make sure for the second box that the URL ends with a ‘word/’ not a ‘word/index.html’ or anything like that. If it shows that sort of ormat, erase that portion of the URL.   Click ‘Next’ when you are ready.

In the next box, you will see a pull‐down menu. Select ‘Secure FTP(SFTP).’

Once ‘Secure FTP(SFTP)’ is chosen, three additional boxes will appear.  In the second box, type you server’s address, one of either:

bascom.brynmawr.edu (use for “live” site URLs that have www.brynmawr.edu at the beginning)
bascom1.brynmawr.edu

The third and fourth boxes will contain your email username and your web server password.  (If you have not requested an account for web editing purposes, contact the help desk to put in a ticket with a link to the site you need to edit.)

Click ‘Next’ when you are ready.

Next you will have to enter the file path to the website you want to edit.  Select the default text in the box that says “/home/yourusername” and delete it.

Then type or copy and paste in the following:

/web/www_pages/your_department

and replace “your_department” with whatever text comes after brynmawr.edu/ in your department’s website address.   For example, for www.brynmawr.edu/is/ you would enter /web/www_pages/is/ in the text field.

If you get an error after this step, go back to the first window when you entered the website address and make sure it matches the end of the address here- and that there is no filename.html or extra text after the last slash “/”.

At the next window, select your role as “Publisher” and click Next.

Fill in your name and email address in the appropriate boxes.   Click ‘Next’ when you are ready.

A box with a summary of the page you are about to edit will appear.  Click ‘Done’ to proceed to the page you intend to edit.

Your page is now ready to be edited.

Individuals setting up mail sync on a Mobile Device should use these instructions.  Individuals using a Blackberry or other unsupported mobile device may use the instructions below for “other clients”.