Digital Tool Basics
General and Other Apps
- How to name files
- You will soon have 25,000 files on your computer. You will waste an entire year of your life trying to remember file names and trying to come up with file names. Earn that year back: use a system. Such as project-name-YYYYMMDD-doctitle-version.ext
- Get and use a cloud storage solution
- Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive
- Use a bibliography manager
- Zotero Account + Download Firefox Plugin + Download Desktop + Chrome Connector + Word Plugin
Word
- Use paragraph and character styles to communicate your brand or look professional or just to save time
- Explained, Custom character styles in Microsoft Word
- Learn to fully manipulate page headers and footers
- Basic Tutorial (GCFLearnFree.org)
- Margins
- You are in charge!
- Format with formatting, not spaces, tabs, and blank lines
- paragraph formatting options (line spacing, paragraph spacing, indentation, widow control)
- Control image formatting
- Wrapping text around images in MSWord
- Equation editor
- MS Word 2013 Equation Editor
Excel
- Cell Basics
- Video (6:00) (GCFLearnFree.org)
- Use conditional formatting
- Conditional Formatting (GCFLearnFree.org)
- Control Line Breaks in Cells
- Enter CRLF in cell with Alt-Enter or Ctrl-alt-return
- Use Autofill to Save Your Sanity
- Video
- Cell references
- Absolute and relative cell reference
- Functions: average, median, mean, sum
- Make a Simple chart
- Use this data.
- Format table with borders
Here is the data
TABLE 21.5
Wealth by Education, Controlling for Residence
Rural Urban
8th grade 8th grade Row totals 8th grade 8th grade Row totals
Not poor 50 34 84 63 28 91
Poor 50 116 166 96 63 159
Column totals 100 150 250 159 91 250
2 20.09, p .001, OR 3.41 2 1.96 ns (not significant)
- Copy Excel objects to Word
- the chart you made and the table you made.
ASSIGNMENT
Produce a document that shows you can do as many of the above as you can learn how to do in a few hours of work.
You might want to grab yourself some Lorem Ipsum as filler text.