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Exporting a PDF from Microsoft documents
Exporting to PDF from Word, Excel or PowerPoint

Documents such as Word, PDF or Excel documents can be exported as a PDF. This can be useful for a number of reasons Including reducing file size, making the document small enough to be emailed as an attachment or for other reasons like compatibility...
Intermission - Student Support Information
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Basic Functions
Basic functions formulae (SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MAX & MIN)

This page will cover the 5 basic functions found in the auto-sum drop-down menu:

  • SUM

  • AVERAGE

  • COUNT NUMBERS

  • MAX

  • MIN

    • SUM

  • Summation, the addition of a...

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    Fill Handle
    Flash fill and the fill handle

    The fill handle can be used in a variety of ways that may save you time. From repeating sequences or repeating data to repeating a formula over a large area. 

    The fill handle is the name given to the green dot found on the bottom right corner of the selected...
    Number Formatting
    Number Formatting in Excel

    Excel can handle lots of different format types of numbers, but you must regularly choose what type of number format you wish to be expressed on the cells containing those numbers. If you don't, you may suffer problem when calculating functions or expressing the data in...
    IF Functions
    IF functions

    If functions are used when we want to specify a criteria to limit our function to. For instance, if we were interested in values above a certain amount we could use =countIf in order to count the number of the values in a range, that are above a certain value. There are multiple...
    Cell Referencing
    Relative cell references and absolute cell references

    Cell references are used in almost all functions and they interact differently with the Auto-fill handle depending on what type of reference you have used:

    The fill handle is shown when a cell is selected (by left clicking it), you will...
    Excel Training
    Excel Tutorials

    Below are a list of Excel guides currently available, these are a work in progress and will be added to as time goes on. If however you have a need for a tutorial that doesn't exist yet then please email ITSkills@chi.ac.uk to request it.

    Beginner

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    Orphaned sections in Moodle

    An orphaned section in Moodle refers to a course section that is hidden from students but still contains activities or resources. This typically happens when sections are moved or deleted, or during course imports, causing some content to become inaccessible to students.

    How to resolve it?

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    Stealth activities and resources

    Sometimes you may want to have a resource that students have available to them, but that doesn't show in the activities area of your topics. (Stealth Activities and Resources)

    This may be if you want to hyperlink it from another area or send it to them separately.

    Click add an...