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Walk Right In

Jon and our Support team provide walk-in assistance when you need a hand installing software, connecting to the network, or fixing your computer. 

Box: Using FTP with Box

Box supports secure FTP file transfers using port 990 and an application-specific password.

Help Pages

We've created an extensive list of help pages to help you help yourself! Click one of the topics in the list below to get started:

Email and Account Help

Pitt Email (Outlook), account management, spam filtering, and more.

Using the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) Feature in Email

Protecting Email Address Privacy

Office 2007: Introduction

Overview

With the release of Office 2007, Microsoft made several improvements to the Office suite that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. The biggest changes to the software have been in the graphical interface. The menu and toolbars have been replaced by the Ribbon. Office 2007 is for computers with the Windows operating system. 

Features

Many changes have been made to Office with the release of 2007. The information provided in this document is by no means an all­-inclusive listing of all the changes.

Office 2007: Excel Ribbon

The following set of ribbons is available with every document that is opened in Excel.  Other ribbons are available for specialized tasks and will only appear when needed.  An example is the Chart ribbon.

Office 2007 Excel Ribbon Chart Features

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Office 2007: Word Ribbon Layout

The following set of ribbons is available with every document that is opened in Word.  Other ribbons are available for specialized tasks and will only appear when you are working on a specific task.  For example, if you insert a picture into your document, the Picture Tools ribbon tab will appear in red at the top of the ribbon listing.

Office 2007 Word Ribbon with Picture Tools