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For more information about Microsoft Office applications
Microsoft Office Assistance Home Page—Microsoft's site has links to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more.
Microsoft Office Templates—From creating a class assignment schedule to designing a resume, this site has a template for your needs.
Windows Users Group Network Tips—Dozens of tips to help you use Microsoft Office applications.
Office Tips for Teachers—Although this Microsoft site says it's for teachers, students will also find the tips useful.
Microsoft Office 2000 Tutorial —From Bay City Public Schools, easy to follow tutorials.
For more information about Eudora
Allegheny College Email Tutorials—Offers general and Eudora tutorials.
Eudora Online Tutorials—Provides answers to most frequent email tasks.
Filtering SPAM—How to filter email SPAM by checking who the mail is addressed to.
For more information about Dreamweaver
Macromedia Dreamweaver—Macromedia's Dreamweaver site features links for support and training. Be sure to see the Online Support Center.
Dreamweaver Visual Quick Start Guide—This link goes to the book's online appendix, which offers information about various Dreamweaver features. Also see the Links Page for references to many web topics.
For more information about Fireworks
Macromedia Fireworks Support Center—Features documentation, forums, and tutorials.
CBT Cafe:Fireworks Tutorials—Tutorials cover topics from basics to automation.
One-Day Fireworks Tutorial—An article from Webmonkey about Fireworks 1.
For more information about HTML
Basic HTML Rules —An easy to follow guide that walks you through coding a simple HTML page.
HTML Primer—Seven brief tutorials that cover HTML basics.
Table Tutorials—If you want to "hand-code" tables, or need to understand what's happening with your Dreamweaver table layout, start with this group of tutorials.
Useful HTML Tags and Their Attributes—As the title promises, a chart of HTML tags.
For more information about Web design issues
Image Tutorials—An assortment of brief, easy to understand tutorials geared to help you accomplish a specific task.
Graphics—Articles from Builder.com that explain the most common tasks involving images.
A Quick Color Explanation—Offers an introduction to hexadecimal color values.
 
Non-Dithering Colors—The 216 browser safe colors.
Color Matters - Computers—A detailed analysis of how computers show color with tests to let you see how well your monitor shows color.
Palette Man—An easy way to find color combinations to use on your site.

Learning Commons Technology
Alphabetical Listing of Help Desk Tutorials by Title
AceFTP tutorial
Adding an Event to another calendar
Adding an Event to your WebCalendar
Applying a design template
Applying animation
Applying slide transitions
Approving Submitted Events
Backing Up Windows 2000 Data
Backing Up Windows XP Data
Basic Powerpoint
Changing layout of existing slide
Changing Preferences for your Calendar
Changing your password
Check the size of your mail spool
Common Tasks for List Owners
Connecting from Off-Campus
Connecting MeetingMaker to handheld device
Converting JPEG into .pdf
Converting scanned file into pdf
Converting Word Doc to .pdf
Creating a poster using powerpoint
Creating an auto-reply filter
Creating and Accepting Invitations/Proposals
Creating and Modifying Banners
Creating and Modifying Events
Creating and reading .rtf files
Creating and using a signature file
Creating Links
Creating pdf with multiple files
Creating Stationary
Creating your own PowerPoint template
Customizing MeetingMaker
Defining a New Site
Deleting a message from your account from the server
Determining the URL to Directly Open a Calendar with Guest Access
Discount internet access for off-campus students and employees
Downloading a Large Attachment
Email
Entourage for Macsge
Eudora: Checking mail while off campus
Find an Allegheny e-mail address
Frequently asked questions
Full-name e-mail address
Getting Eudora for students
Getting Fetch for Mac
Getting FTP for personal computer
Getting Started (Dreamweaver Interface)
Getting your website online
How to insert slides from an outline
Hyperlinking slides
Importing bookmarks into netscape
Importing images from a camera
Importing netscape bookmarks into internet explorer
Insert slides from old presentation into new one
Inserting blank slide
Inserting Images
Inserting Tables
Inserting Text and Changing Page Properties
Logging In
Managing bookmarks/favorites
MeetingMaker 7.3 Tutorials
Mozilla firefox
Obtaining software on lab computers for your personal computer
Off-Campus Access
Optimizing images (using Fireworks)
Outlook: Checking mail while off campus
Poster Printing
PowerPoint poster templates
Preparing a Video Conference
Printing Calendars
Quick enhancements to PowerPoint
Quick tips for MeetingMaker
Reading Allegheny e-mail from off campus
Reading and sending mail
Reading wordperfect files in Word
Replacing fonts
Requesting a Listserv
Restoring Windows 2000 Data
Restoring Windows XP Data
Scan text for editing
Scanning Images using a flatbed scanner
Scanning on flatbed scanners
Setting up for Synchronizing of your Web Calendar with the Palm Desktop
Sharing your webCalendar With Students and Colleagues
Showing and hiding slides
Signing on to MeetingMaker
Stationary
Stopping an auto-reply
Synching with Palm Desktop
Transfer Files Using Dreamweaver's Site Window
Turning off auto-numbering and bulleting
Uploading a group site
User names and passwords
Using a card reader to import photos
Using AceFTP to access account
Using Fetch on Mac
Using filters to auto-reply by subject
Using the Address Book
Using the slide scanner
Using To-Do Lists
Using WS-FTP from office or lab computer
Viewing Other Calendars
Virus Prevention
WebCalendar for Academic Departments
WebCT
Webmail: Access and how-to
Wired Printing Win2000
Wired Printing XP
Wireless Printing
Working with filters
Working with mailboxes
Your Allegheny Account