DigiTip 67 – Count on My Row Counter 🧶

With the rise of popularity in crochet and knitting, apps have been created to support development. Apps such as ‘My Row Counter’ which has functions such as free patterns, a glossary, units convertor and a pattern creator. View the pictures below for a quick glimpse at My Row Counter.  

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DigiTip 66 – Spruce up your PowerPoints with ‘Designer’ 🖌️

Are you looking to make your PowerPoint presentations more interesting? But you’re not sure where to start? Why not use PowerPoint’s ‘Designer’ feature. The Designer feature presents generated ideas to make your slides look more interesting. View the short video below for a quick demonstration.  

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Top of the Tips: Our Top 5 DigiTips from 2024/25 🏆

Before we move into the new academic year and into a new batch of DigiTips – weekly blogpost to highlight a useful tip that you can use to make your daily digital life easier – let’s look back on our most popular DigiTips from 2024/25! 

  1. DigiTip 34: Make MS Teams chats easier to read with bullet points 💬 

Have you ever been in an MS Teams meeting where you’ve needed to send a quick list that’s easy for others to read? There are actually two quick ways to create bullet points or numbered lists in any MS Teams chat. 

  1. DigiTip 36: Use Outlook reactions to respond to an email 👍🎉 

There may be times when someone has sent you an email, and you’d like to acknowledge its receipt without sending another reply. A great feature to use in this case is the reactions feature in Outlook, which works similarly to those in MS Teams or on various social media platforms. 

  1. DigiTip 42: Refine your search results with filters in MS Teams 🔎 

Teams has a useful search function, but it can sometimes produce too many results. To save you unnecessary time searching, you can utilise filters. 

These filters allow you to search using specific criteria such as date, sender, and file type, helping you to quickly pinpoint the information you need! 

  1. DigiTip 45: Shift+F3 is on the case! A capitalisation shortcut ⌨ 

If you have ever begun writing a sentence and realised, you were in the wrong case – this DigiTip is for you! Did you know that you can change the case of your word in Office 365 by selecting the text and then using Shift + F3? 

  1. DigiTip 49: Interesting Graphs in MS Excel 📈 

Do you want to add interesting ways of presenting your data in MS Excel? DigiTip 49 can help with that by introducing Sparklines. Sparklines are small graphs that only take up one cell in an excel sheet and are an effective way of presenting data without having a graph that takes up a whole sheet. 

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Celebrating our Graduates 🎓

This week from Tuesday 15 July – Thursday 17 July is graduation at Aberystwyth University and as such we want to celebrate our graduates. Last year our Student Digital Champions created the Graduate Digital Skills profiles and the Employer Digital Skills Profiles. The Graduate Digital Skills profiles deep dive into life our graduation for our recent graduates as well as what skills they wished they had developed at university. Meanwhile, the Employer Digital Skills profiles reviews the skills employers are looking for in upcoming graduates. Read the profiles below for more information! 

The Digital Skills Team Summer Challenge ☀️

This summer break, why not join us for the Digital Skills Team Summer challenge. Below are nine daily challenges that you can complete within the summer break to help spark your digital and creative skills. 

Text Version:

  • Day 1: Start a new book. Pick a new book and try to read the first two chapters.
  • Day 2: Photo Challenge 1. Take a photo of something that makes you think of summer.
  • Day 3: Try coding. Try coding for free through Free Code Camp or Code First Girls.
  • Day 4: Photo Challenge 2. Take a photo of a sunset.
  • Day 5: Google Digital Garage. Complete a course of your choosing using Google Digital Garage.
  • Day 6: Cook a new meal. Try cooking or baking a recipe for the first time.
  • Day 7: Writing Challenge. Using a Reedsy prompt, write a short story.
  • Day 8: Photo Challenge 3. Take a photo of something which made you happy today.
  • Day 9: Try a new hobby. Start a new hobby or restart an old one.

DigiTip 65: Speak it aloud with Microsoft Word Dictate 🗣️

Swap out typing for talking with DigiTip 65 and Microsoft Word’s Dictate tool. On Microsoft Word there is the option to dictate by either clicking the microphone button or using the shortcut Alt and +. This means that you can talk, and Microsoft Word will type for you! 

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DigiTip 64: Change Direction with Excel Text Orientation 💻

Take your spreadsheets to the next level with DigiTip 64. Did you know that you can change the direction of text on your spreadsheets. This can help if your spreadsheets are becoming text heavy, especially headings. View the short video below to learn how! 

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DigiTip 63: Tag you’re it! OneNotes Tagging Feature ✅

With DigiTip 63, learn how to insert tags into your pages on OneNote. Tags are small emojis such as checkboxes to help you keep track of what’s important in your OneNote pages.  

Watch the short video below to learn more.  

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DigiTip 62: Perfect Presenting with PowerPoint Presenter Coach ⏱️

Do you want to perfect your presenting skills before your next big presentation? With DigiTip 62 and PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach you can get feedback while you practice! Simply follow these steps: 

  1. In your PowerPoint go to ‘Slide Show’ then ‘Rehearse with Coach’. 
  1. Run through your presentation as usual  
  1. Once finished – receive your personalised feedback summary of statistics on what you did well and how you can improve! 

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