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Welcome to the TECH TIPS TUESDAY blog. The purpose of this blog is to provide ideas for using new technology as well as sharing tips for using existing technology. Every Tuesday, a new tip or idea will be added to the blog. We invite you to bookmark the website and check back often. Hopefully you will find these tips and ideas helpful!

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Microsoft Excel - Insert Data from Picture
Rachelle Herbst
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Have you ever wanted to scan a receipt or table-type information, like a recipe, into Excel? With the new insert data from picture feature you can, and it's as simple as taking a picture.

 

Open Excel on your phone or tablet and tap the Insert data from picture button to get started.

Insert data from picture button

Next, narrow in on your data until you see it surrounded by a red border, then tap the capture button. If needed, you can use the sizing handles around the edges of the image to crop it to size first.

Ready to take a picture on an Android device

Excel's powerful AI engine will process the image and convert it to a table. When it first imports your data, it will give you a chance to correct any issues it discovered during the conversion process. Tap Ignore to move on to the next issue, or Edit to correct the issue. 

Excel import data from picture gives you the ability to correct any issues it found when converting your data.

Press Insert when you're done, and Excel will finish the conversion process, and display your data.

Excel has converted your data, and returns it to the grid.

McGraw-Hill connectED now accessible in Canvas
Lisa Lomax

 

Mc-Graw Hill is now accessible in Canvas

 You can now access connectED from your course navigation pane, from the external tool in assignment submission type or in course modules.

Try it out and see how easy it is for teacher and students to access in Canvas! 

 

Sending Outlook Email Messages to OneNote
Cathy Larsen

Did you know you can "send" a copy of Outlook email messages to OneNote? This feature will copy the entire email message, along with any attachments to a page in a OneNote notebook.The subject line of each imported message becomes the title of the associated page in OneNote, and the date and time stamp of the original item is retained. This makes it easy to search for it again later.

Outlook Desktop

1. Open the desired email message.

2. Click on the Send to OneNote button on the ribbon.

send to OneNote

3. In the OneNote task pane that appears on the right side of the screen, select the notebook and the section where you want your selected Outlook email to be saved.

4. Click Save.


Outlook in Office 365

1. Open the desired email message.

2. Click on the ellipses in the upper right corner of the email message to see a list of options. Click on OneNote.

Outlook Options

3. In the OneNote task pane that appears on the right side of the screen, select the notebook and the section where you want your selected Outlook email to be saved.

4. Click Save.

 

Excel Training Tutorial
Cathy Larsen

Did you know that Excel 2016 has a built-in template that will help you learn about the most requested features in Excel? The tutorial is a workbook that you download to your computer and from there you can then access different worksheets of real world interactive examples that let you learn and practice different topics. The tutorials cover everything from basic formatting, sorting, filtering, filling in information and even advanced tutorials for pivot tables. 

To access the tutorial, open Excel 2016 on the desktop of your computer, then click on File > New and open the template named Take a Tour

Excel Take a Tour

 

Canvas Direct Share
Lisa Lomax

Instructors can now copy individual course items to any of their courses and also share individual items with other users directly in Canvas. 

Please click on the link below for instructions on how to use Direct Share to send any item to another instructor.

https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-18379-41521186123

Summary Text in 7 seconds with SMMRY
Kristine Capron

An online resource to help understand the text by shorting and summarizing the content.

Need help understanding complex or above grade level text?  SMMRY, can summary text from either: copying and pasting your text, uploading a file, or using a URL. At https://smmry.com/ you can sign up for a free account and start summarizing text today! 

Immersive Reader Comes to Office Lens
Rachelle Herbst
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Office Lens now has the Immersive Reader feature!  The Immersive Reader helps users to easily scan and read content, helping them move from the physical to digital world. ... Read aloud—Reads text out loud with simultaneous highlighting that improves decoding, fluency and comprehension while sustaining focus and attention.

  • Read aloud—Reads text out loud with simultaneous highlighting that improves decoding, fluency and comprehension while sustaining focus and attention.
  • Font size—Allows the user to increase or decrease the size of fonts.
  • Wide text spacing—Optimizes font spacing in a narrow column view to improve reading fluency for users who suffer from “visual crowding” issues.
  • Back five words and forward one page—Allows the user to move backwards and forwards in the content.
  • Speaking rate—Allows user to control the speed of the voice reading back the words.
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Windows 10 Video Editor
Cathy Larsen

Windows 10 has a hidden video editor that works a bit like Windows Movie Maker or Apple iMovie. You can use it to trim videos or create your own home movies and slideshows. You can even have it create videos automatically. This feature is part of the Photos app. 

To get started creating a video, click on the Windows button then find and open Photos. Next, in the upper right corner of the Photos app, select New video then choose New Video Project or Automatic Video.

Also, if you have been using the Windows 10 Video Editor, you will be happy to know that it has recently received some new updates. Click here to see what's new in the video editor.

Windows 10 Video Editor