General Helpsheets

Create Word documents from OpenOffice or LibreOffice

18 August 2014 OpenOffice and LibreOffice are free, open source office suties that offer an excellent alternative to Microsoft Word. They will open documents produced in Word, and can save in Word ".doc" and ".docx" formats as well. Here's how:

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Create Word documents from Pages

25 August 2011 Many users of Apple Macs use the Pages word processor. That’s a good choice to work with, but it is essential that what is produced can be opened by SIDE teachers. Thankfully, it’s very easy to make this happen.

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Creating and managing PDFs

11 April 2011 Many courses at SIDE require work to be submitted in Adobe Portable Document Format – PDF for short. As the name suggests, PDF files display identically, no matter the computer or operating system on which they are displayed. They even work on many...

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Four image editors compared

07 June 2017 So you want to resize an image? This video compares the following four image editors doing common tasks such as crop and resizing an image. Adobe Photoshop - Photo & design software Pixlr E: Free Advanced Photo Editor & Image...

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Installing Office

11 May 2015 Instructions Navigate to https://portal.office.com/ Enter your @student.education.wa.edu.au email address and press TAB or Enter You will be re-directed to the Department of Education (DoE) Portal to log in Use your DoE user...

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• Author: Veronika Popp
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Japanese input on Mac OS X

07 March 2013 Macs deal with Japanese character display seamlessly. Japanese input is not always enabled by default - here's how to change that.

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Managing SIDE email

10 February 2017 SIDE emails may come from teachers, students or forum notifications. There are several ways in which you can manage the emails you receive from SIDE.

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Merging and converting multiple files to PDF

04 April 2017 If your work is in many files and needs to be combined as one single PDF for submission. Here is help!

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Password reset

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• Author: Emma Puls
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Resizing Images

11 May 2015 Resizing your images before emailing or inserting them into a document is vital.

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• Author: Veronika Popp
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Transferring video from iPad to PC

07 June 2017 If you use an iPad to capture a video and needed to transfer it to a PC. This helpsheet will show you how.

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• Author: Gina Lau
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Use Handbrake to reduce video file size for uploading

07 June 2017 If you have a large video assignment to submit. This helpsheet will help to make the uploading easier.

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• Author: Gina Lau
• Category: General Helpsheets