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It depends on what you are trying to access. Off-campus access to library databases or Discovery searches:  Portal Username and Password See "Getting Started" for help with your Portal account. MLC and TdS catalogs, MLC and TdS Overdrive, MNLINK: ...

The basics:  To add an article from a library database to a Moodle reading list, use its persistent link. The reason:  If you copy the address-bar URL of an article, it may "break" when you try to use it the next time.  Persistent URLs are stable and will lea...

May be especially useful if pasting from one program to another (e.g. from a bulleted list in Word to an email or from a website to a spreadsheet cell). Bonus:  Ctrl + V pastes with formatting

Useful when working with bulleted lists or wanting to indent text and then return to normal left alignment.

Don't redo your search or try to remember what page you had open -- just bring back the tabs from whatever page they were on when you closed them.

Use cases:  Snooze meeting confirmations until the day of the meeting; snooze reminders until closer to their deadline; snooze other non-urgent messages until a less busy day.  

Schedule emails to be sent later: Click the arrow on the side of the "send" button, and click "Schedule send." Useful for: Reminders for yourself:  "Check with Joe about summer plans" on May 1. Reminders for others:  Send an initial email with deadlines...

Default Windows Snipping Tool: WINDOWS + SHIFT + S Useful for: Sharing how to do something with step-by-step examples of your screen Submitting IT tickets that show exactly what you see on your screen Saving a screenshot of something you want to go see...

The Best Gmail Settings You Might Not Have Used Yet

When you need to create a new Google Doc or Google Sheet on your computer, simply type "docs.new" or "sheets.new" or similar into your Chrome address bar when you're logged in to Google.  A new file will be created in your Google Drive.

Windows Key + L : Quickly locks your computer screen. Make it a habit to do this every time you leave your computer as one part of making our campus more cybersecure. (The windows key is usually between Ctrl and Alt to the left of the spacebar.)

Useful for enlarging print in documents or seeing details in photos -- and then returning to your normal text size.

Use the format painter (the icon that looks like a paint roller in your word processor or spreadsheet toolbar) to quickly copy the formatting from one cell or paragraph to another.  Example: You've worked hard to format a spreadsheet cell just how you wan...

Use to go back to earlier versions of a document, and then to revert to the newer one when you decide that was better after all.

This can be quicker than dragging to highlight. Just double- or triple-click somewhere in your word or paragraph, and your whole selection will be highlighted.

Go to the Tech Tips slides. Go to File --> Print Preview. Select a format from the dropdown, then click Print. Note: This only works for the tips that have slides embedded.

Useful when you're in the middle of a long document or spreadsheet and want to get back to the beginning quickly.  

Useful when you want to get to the end of a document quickly.