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Night Light feature in Windows 10 - reduces "blue light"

If you are concerned about the health impact of "Blue Light" (the light that comes from a PC monitor, tablet, mobile phone, TV), then there is a filter built into Windows 10 that you may wish to enable. 

Windows 10 has a Night Light setting which gently reduces the monitors blue-tones,...
Creating an Origin account
What is Origin?

Origin is a video game digital distribution platform developed by Electronic Arts. This platform is used by the university to install certain items of software from games to applications. To access this platform, you must have an account. If you already have one you may sign in...
Managed Software Centre


Specialist software on University managed Windows desktops and laptops can be accessed using the  ‘Managed Software Centre’, which contains a list of all the software currently licensed for you and/or your device.

In the Start Menu, scroll down to ‘Managed Software Centre’,

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Outlook - Focused Inbox
What is the Focused Mailbox?

When focused mailbox mode is enabled it will split your Inbox into two Tabs:

Focused & Other 

High priority emails are directed to the Focused tab, whilst low priority emails like advertisements and generic newsletter items are directed to the "Other" Mailbox...
GIMP image editor

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks.

How to download GIMP
  • For University PCs, you can download GIMP from the...
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    Word - Show hidden formatting - Pilcrow
    Displaying hidden formattingWord has many formatting symbols which are not immediately obvious and are hidden from view by default. 
    The following formatting options have no visibility unless the ¶ button is selected:
  • Section breaks,
  • Page breaks,
  • Soft and Hard carriage...
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    Find and replace
    Excel - Find and Replace

    Find and/or replace is a powerful feature that allows you to search for a text string within your data set. It will show you all of the times that Excel can see the text string in your document, allowing you to be taken to the next word by clicking the 'next' button. If...
    Conditional formatting
    Conditional Formatting

     

    Conditional formatting is a feature that has a variety of uses. Mainly surrounding different ways of displaying data corresponding to the value found within the cell or range of data. This can help you visualise the data faster...
    Sparklines
    Sparklines

    A sparkline is a small graphic designed to give a quick representation of numerical or statistical information within a piece of text, taking the form of a graph without axes. This is displayed within a single cell and can be used to visualise data when you don't have enough room or it...
    Charts/Graphs
    Charts and Graphs

    Create a chart

  • Select the data for which you want to create a chart.

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