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Importing Data Into Excel
Posted December 13, 2023
by Curt Price
Have you ever had printed (on old school paper) data in a table that you needed to get into Excel? And did you dread adding it manually by typing it in?
Well, Matty McTech has found a quick and easy way to do it that could save you a ton of time. And I'm sure the University will be happy to hear you are getting more done in less time. That's solid gold resume material if you ask me.
Email Efficiency Tips
Posted November 08, 2023
by Patricia Werner
Here are a handful of useful tips to help you organize your Outlook emails.
Move emails that you are CC’d on to a sub folder
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- In outlook, go to file, manage rules and alerts (on a mac this is under Tools, rules)
- Click on New Rule and click next on the Select a template page
- On the select condition screen, only check “Where my name is in the CC box” and “Where my name is not in the To box” and click next...
Submitting & Publishing Within Cascade
Posted November 08, 2023
by Curt Price
The Cascade CMS features a robust publishing engine designed to render and publish content to one or more environments. Once content is published, it's completely decoupled from the CMS, allowing it to operate as a standalone entity on the University web server.
When a user tries to send content to the live web server, it's not that unusual for them to think that "SUBMIT" will publish their content to the web server.
It does not.
"SUBMIT" only saves your work within t...
How To Properly Paste Text In The Cascade CMS
Posted October 11, 2023
by Curt Price
For those of you who use Cascade (SIUE's website content management system) to update and maintain your department's website, you probably do a fair amount of copying text and pasting it into a page in Cascade.
Did you know there is a RIGHT and a WRONG way to do this? And that pasting text the WRONG way into Cascade can cause some serious problems with your web page?
Sometimes, when you copy text from somewhere, you're also copying the formatting that goes along with that text, ...
Cascade CMS - Did You Know?
Posted September 13, 2023
by Curt Price
Cascade is the website content management system that SIUE has been using since 2013.
The move to Cascade from our previous system, Luminis, was a huge upgrade in terms of features, functionality, & stability.
If you are an end user who has access to Cascade, you can obviously update your department web pages using Cascade, but did you also know...
- On the Cascade dashboard, end users can customize the data on that page by adding or removing widgets using the "Add Widget" butt...
Free PDF Tools
Posted September 13, 2023
by Curt Price
We all use PDF's at work and at home. But besides opening a pdf in Reader or Acrobat to read a pdf, or to save/print a word doc as a PDF, most people aren't Acrobat acrobats and aren't sure how to do other things.
To make things somewhat easier in terms of working with a pdf file, the website https://www.pdftool.org has a number of free tools that will allow you to do some very useful things. Such as Encrypting PDF's to protect secure documents, Decrypting PDF's, optimzing (...