TechInfo

When you log into a networked computer on campus, and then double click on ‘My Computer’ you will see a list of available of storage drives including the ‘U Drive’. (It’s the one labeled with your username ‘on shares’)

This drive is actually 4 gigabytes of network storage that is available to all faculty and staff members.  Because it is on the network, you can access this drive from any networked machine anywhere on campus.  For example, if I work on a powerpoint presentation in my office and then save it to the U drive, I can then access it from a machine in Dowd, or Old Main, or anywhere else on campus as long as I’ve authenticated (logged in) with my username and password. All without having to remember to save it to a flash key or CD. (Which I’d probably forget to take with me anyways.)

Another nice thing about storing your files on the U drive is that the U drive is backed up on a nightly basis. Creating backups of your files is critical. If your hard drive fails, and you haven’t made a recent backup, there’s a good chance that your files can not be recovered. But, if you save them to the network drive, the files can be recovered from the nightly server backups.

So, instead of saving your files to your ‘local machine’, you can redirect your files to be saved to the U drive. More specifically, you can change where ‘My Documents’ is targeted so that anytime you save to ‘My Documents’ the files are automatically saved to the U drive instead of to the hard drive of your desktop.

Here’s how you target ‘My Documents’ to the U Drive:
1. On your desktop, right click on ‘My Documents’ and click on properties.
2. On the target tab, click on the Move button.
3. From the browse window that appears, select the U drive (It’s under  the + sign for ‘My Computer’.)
4. Click apply and Click Ok.

Now, anytime that you choose to save to ‘My Documents’, your files will be saved on the U Drive.

Keep in mind, if you have more than one machine that you use on a regular basis, you would have to retarget ‘My Documents’ on each of them.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
dotyblancet@cortland.edu
http://library.cortland.edu/ttc/training_center.asp

Some users still prefer the styles, line spacing and font from Word 2003. To change the default in Word 2007 to that of Word 2003, follow these simple instructions.

1. Open Word 2007 and click on the Home Tab.

2. On the far right, is the ‘Change Styles’ button. Click on the button. On the drop down menu, hold your cursor over ‘Style Set’. From the fly out menu, click on ‘Word 2003’.

3. Click on the ‘Change Styles’ button again and then click on ‘Set as Default’. This sets the default spacing for all new documents to that of Word 2003. Now you are ready to change the default font.

4. The default font in Word 2007 is set to ‘Calibri’. To change this to Times New Roman (or any other font type); click on the small arrow at the bottom right corner of the Font group on the Home Tab. A Font dialogue window will open. Choose the font type, style and size that you want to set as the default and then click the default button at the bottom of the window. A confirmation window will open. Click ok, and the font in your current document and any *NEW* documents based on the normal template (blank documents) will have the spacing, style and font of Word 2003.

5. Ignore steps 2 through 4 if you want to keep the style sets and default font in Word 2007, but just want to change the line spacing. Click on the Page Layout tab and then click on the small arrow on the Paragraph group below ‘Spacing’. The Paragraph dialog window will open. Under the Spacing heading, change the Line Spacing to Single and the After spacing from 10 to 0 pt. Then click on the default button to make this the default spacing for this document and all future new documents.

If you need more information, please contact:

Tera Doty-Blance
Software Training and Support Specialist
Memorial Library B113
(607)753-4056
dotyblancet@cortland.edu
http://library.cortland.edu/ttc/training_center.asp

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