Did you know you can print several slides on one page? PowerPoint, Keynote, even Google Presentations all offer slick ways to print 2x, 4x, or even 6x slides on one pages. It’s perfect for lab references, taking notes, or just plain turning that monstrosity into a 6 page lapdog.
BONUS user-submitted tip! Print More than one page on a single sheet from PDFs:
Better Than Printing Tip #9: Improve Reading on a Computer Screen.
Reading on a screen can be uncomfortable and exhausting on the eyes. Glare, contrast, and scrolling constantly cause eyestrain quickly. To improve your reading experience on screens, try adjusting nearby light sources, dial down the whites in your monitor, and use tools to hide distracting parts e-articles.
Check out these links for more details:http://lifehacker.com/5890461/how-to-make-reading-on-your-computer-a-better-experience
Better than Printing Tip #8: Listen to articles instead of read them. Many journal articles in the Ebsco or Gale databases are available in audio format. Look for the microphone icon to listen to an article.
Details at: http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/
It’s not just about sustainability & waste. The Better than Printing campaign is geared toward helping you choose methods that make it easier to organize and edit your documents & articles and to work collaboratively.
View the Tip of the Week Archive:
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html
Save articles in RefWorks. Refworks allows you to keep track of and organize your citations and documents. You may also continue to use RefWorks after you graduate!
For more information about creating an account and using RefWorks check out the handy guides from our librarians:
http://libguides.willamette.edu/refworks
It’s not just about sustainability & waste. The Better than Printing campaign is geared toward helping you choose methods that make it easier to organize and edit your documents & articles and to work collaboratively.
View the Tip of the Week Archive:
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html
Students, faculty and staff have access to personal storage space on Willamette’s network file server. This space is automatically created when your network account is made. The NetFiles storage space can be used to store and back up data for classes, projects and academic research. The file servers themselves are backed up regularly and data can be recovered in cases of local hard drive failures or accidental file corruption or deletion. All members of the community are strongly encouraged to save any files that cannot afford to be lost to their NetFiles storage space.
The file server may be accessed from any computer that has network connectivity. It is similar to DropBox or other on-line storage services – and it’s completely free.
storage space as a network drive to access it easily from your computer on campus
View the Tip of the Week Archive:
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html
Use services like Printwhatyoulike.com to help reduce unnecessary things you don’t need to print. This resource allows you to exclude elements of web pages to print only the stuff you need.
Get that paragraph back in the final version: no problem(and see who nuked it in the 1st place). Set up commenting so your group members can give feedback without being face-to-face: easy as pie!
The power of Google Drive goes beyond just sharing and collaborative live-editing. Google Drive has an easy-to-view revision history so you can see just who messed up that last group project,and revert to an earlier version in a snap. You can also do peer-editing & feedback with their nifty commenting tool. You can even set up notifications on the comment thread so you’ll get emailed when someone posts a comment to your doc.
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html
Did you know? You can share documents and papers easily with Google Drive.
It’s not just about sustainability & waste. The Better than Printing campaign is geared toward helping you choose methods that make it easier to organize and edit your documents & articles and to work collaboratively.
View the Tip of the Week Archive:
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html
Use MS Word markup tools like “Track Changes.” And did you know, you can also record audio comments and imbed them into your Word docs?
View the Tip of the Week Archive:
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html
Tired of printing out mountains of PDF files? Standing in line at the printer getting you down? Did you know there’s some great tools available in the labs and on your PC/MAC to manipulate PDFs with?
It all starts with a free App:
Once you have Adobe Reader installed you can use some quick and easy to use features to mark up your PDF’s and view your notes across all platforms.
**many other PDF reading programs can also see the markup notes, but not all of them.
