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If you have MS Word 2000 or higher, you’ll be able to open WordPerfect files and if the document was created with WordPerfect 6.0 or later.To do this, open a blank document in MS Word. Go to the Tools menu and click on Options. Select the General tab and che...

There are two scenarios where this occurs. Are you getting this message after logging in or before you had a chance to?If it is before you log in, your internet browser might be saving your logins and if you close the window before you sign out, the next time ...

Instructor can apply for a “special temporary account” with an expiration date by following the instructions for a visiting scholar account here:http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/accounts/info/special.html#tempOnce the professor has a payroll entry, they can th...

When you download mail to email clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, etc, your mail is being wiped from the server as well; email clients are defaulted to remove messages from your server after download. Their logic is that if you’re saving it onto your c...

There is an array of helpdesks on campus that can help you enhance your curricula, particularly by encompassing technology available for faculty, students, and staff to use. Here’s a list of campus help desks available and ready to assist you. Audio Video Serv...

You can search for large lecture halls as well as smaller discussion size classrooms’ AVS availability by checking out this site here:http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/avs/buildings/Please read the Office of Instructional Development’s AVS policies for more inform...

There are a lot of services on campus to help you enhance your classes, such as video, interactive media, research collections, etc. These resources are available on campus and are constantly changing as new technology are introduced. Each group has specia...

Technology is constantly changing, and with that change comes new and innovative ways for instructors to present their course materials. On campus, there are many labs with a wide variety of multimedia tools available for instructors to tie into their regular...

CutePDFI tend to like to post documents in PDF is because not everyone has MS Word on their computers (i.e. Mac users).Students can download a free PDF reader (the most common one is Adobe Reader) and have access to the documents. CutePDF is like Adobe Acrobat...

The best thing to do with your documents prior to posting is converting it to a PDF. With Word documents, a lot of the times, when you save your document, other data is saved along with what you have on your document. This might occur when you have multiple w...

Social Sciences ClassWeb and my.ucla allows instructors to send mail to their class roster via their services. However, ClassWeb does not allow for email attachments, while my.ucla does. ClassWeb does not recommend sending email attachments to class rosters ...

The Library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) have scanners that can scan large documents such as newspapers.Another large scanner is located in the Music Library Special Collections (B425 Schoenberg).The Arts Library at 1400 Public Affairs Building (just east of Bun...

Short names become apart of the URL for Plone sites. Instead of an auto generated URL, you can create an easy to remember URL. For example, say you created a “General Information” page, your URL can show up like this: generalinfo or general-info, as opposed ...

By default Plone 2.1.x generates short names for you based on the title of your document, folder, etc in the same manner https://kb.ucla.edu does.For example, if you create a document with a title called “Plone is Great” the short name becomes “plone-is-great”...

Scanners and scan services available for faculty and teaching assistants (restriction may apply to department/divisions): Center for Digital Humanities – CDH and each Humanities Administrative Group also have multifunction copiers, which convert single or mult...

As the front page at samba.org says, “Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Lin...

Yes you can! To connect to Samba on your Mac, be sure you’re not clicked on any applications (so it should say Finder next to the Apple menu). Then go to “Go” menu and select the option “Connect to Server.” In the “Address,” type in smb://www.servername/use...

Where can I get help with technology in teaching?The links below facilitate technical people on campus in sharing information, specifically about support for teaching with technology.If you do not find the support service you are looking for, please send email...