CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
TEACHING & LEARNING
 PRAXIS   | Volume 11, Issue 6 | Nov 2007
Praxis is the newsletter brought to you by Grossmont College's Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL).

CATL is for our instructors and staff, to help them learn and teach technology.

Praxis offers monthly computer tips, tricks, and hints. Please see the CATL website for more information about CATL offerings.

 

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Tips
Excel - Creating Borders

Ever find yourself working in MS Excel and need a quick border to a cell or a group of cells?

Just highlight the cells to be bordered and try Ctrl + Shift + &.

To remove the border:

Again, highlight the cells involved and this time try Ctrl + Shift + _.

Tricks
In Internet Explorer: Pick Your Wallpaper
Right click on any image in your browser and select Set as Wallpaper to make it your desktop wallpaper. Internet Explorer will copy the image to the Windows folder and set it as the wallpaper.

Hints

In Internet Explorer: Offline Web Pages
You can set a page as "offline" so you can read it even when you're not connected. On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites. Enable Make available offline. To specify a schedule for updating the page and how much content to download, click Customize. Follow the instructions on screen.

Questions?  Contact CATL Coordinator Patty Morrison
 

at either 619-644-7788 or pat.morrison@gcccd.edu.