If you have ever been writing an essay and noticed that the flow of the essay doesn’t work right, then DigiTip 73 is for you! Within Microsoft Word you can move entire paragraphs up or down by using the short cut Alt + Shift + Up/Down arrows. View the short video below for a quick demonstration.
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If you have handwritten notes that you would like to digitise learn a quick and easy way to do this with DigiTip 72! Using Microsoft Lens, you can easily scan handwritten notes using your phone and your Aberystwyth University account. These notes can be automatically uploaded as images to Microsoft OneNote.
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Do you struggle with mindless scrolling or spending too much time on your phone? DigiTip 71 can help by introducing you to ScreenZen! ScreenZen blocks your selected apps that you struggle with leading to you having to actively think about why you’re opening the app. You can read more about the ScreenZen app and its features in our previous blog post.
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If you’re working on one screen and want to type your notes into OneNote while in a meeting, you can do that with ease with Dock OneNote. While in OneNote simply use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + D and your OneNote will become a side panel making it easier to make notes.
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With DigiTip 69, you’ll learn how to utilise Microsoft Word’s Focus feature which allows you to write distraction free. While in Microsoft Word go to View > Focus, this will put your document into Focus, removing the top ribbon and making the document centred in your screen. To exit focus mode simply press the Esc key.
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If you are often searching for your cursor on your screen or you’re demonstrating and want participants to follow along easily then this DigiTip is for you. On your Windows PC go to Settings > Accessibility > Mouse Pointer and customise away! Watch the video below for a quick demonstration.
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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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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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Starting next week, our DigiTips will be returning. Join us for our weekly posts about our favourite digital tips and tricks to help improve your digital skills. If you haven’t seen our previous DigiTips you can view them all here. Remember to keep up to date with our DigiTips and all other digital skills posts by subscribing to the blog!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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?
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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