General Office365
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How to Access Any Office File Using Only the Web apps
If you do not have access to the desktop office apps on your computer, follow these steps to be able to still access and edit the files originating from desktop apps. 1. Open up your preferred Internet browser on your device. All laptops have Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge installed. 2. Go to https://www.office.com. 3. Click the Sign in button in the middle of the screen. 4. Type in your Tweet/Garot e-mail address (firstname.lastname@tweetgarot.com) and click Next. If an option to Pick an account shows up, find your Tweet/Garot email address and select it. It should log you in automatically. 5. If you are prompted to choose if this is a personal or work/school account, choose work/school and click Next. If not, skip this step. 6. Enter your Tweet/Garot password and click Sign in. 7. Microsoft will ask you if you want to stay signed in. If this is your computer, check the box next to Don’t show this again and click Yes. If the computer belongs to someone else, you should click No. 8. Once you are signed in, there will be a bar on the left hand side with a list of apps. Now you will need to know what type of file you are trying to open, and open the corresponding app. For example, if you are trying to access a Word Document, you would click on the Word icon to open the web app. If you are needing to open an Excel file, you will open the Excel web app by clicking on the Excel icon. 9. For this example, I need to open a Word Document. I clicked on the Word icon, and came to the page below. Locate where it says Upload on the right hand side. 10. After pressing that, a File Explorer window should pop up. Navigate to where the document is on your computer and open it. If you downloaded it from an email or was forwarded the file, make sure you download it first and then open https://office.com and go to the proper web app. You can then go to the Downloads folder and upload it that way. 11. If an error comes up when you try to upload it, and a pop up is blocked, make sure to click on the top bar to allow all pop ups from https://office.com. There may be another pop up as well that asks if you want to open the file, press Open. If neither of these come up, skip this step. 12. Your document should now open and you can now edit your document in mostly the same way as if you had the desktop app. 13. Now, when you go to click on the Word icon from https://office.com, you will see the documents that you have uploaded in an easy access home page. 14. This will work for all Office apps, such as PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. Make sure you have the file you want to open downloaded on your laptop, then go to https://office.com, and then open the web app and upload the file.
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How to Access Office365 Apps from a Web Browser
1. Open up your preferred Internet browser on your device. All laptops have Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge installed. 2. Go to https://www.office.com. 3. Click the Sign in button in the middle of the screen. 4. Type in your Tweet/Garot e-mail address (firstname.lastname@tweetgarot.com) and click Next. If an option to Pick an account shows up, find your Tweet/Garot email address and select it. It should log you in automatically. 5. If it asks you to choose personal or work/school account, choose work/school and click Next. If not, skip this step. 6. Enter your Tweet/Garot password and click Sign in. 7. Microsoft will ask you if you want to stay signed in. If this is your computer, check the box next to Don’t show this again and click Yes. If the computer belongs to someone else, you should click No. 8. Once you are signed in, there will be a bar on the left hand side with a list of apps. Select the waffle square at the top to view all apps. 9. You will be able to view many of the apps here, and if you still do not see what you need, press All Apps at the bottom. 10. You can then search for the app you are looking for in the search bar at the top. Once you find the one you want, click to open it. Now you know how to access any of the Office365 apps available to you.
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How to Lock Cells in Excel
To lock a cell, or multiple cells, in Excel: 1. Go to the Review tab in the top ribbon of Excel. 2. Select the option to Unprotect Sheet (if it says Protect Sheet already, ignore this step). 3. Then go to whichever cell or cells you wish to lock and select them. 4. Go back to the Home tab in that top ribbon with those cell(s) selected, go to the Font section and click the bottom right corner arrow out. 5. Find the Protection tab in the window that pops up, and make sure the box for Locked is checked. Then press OK. 6. Go back to the Review tab and select Protect Sheet. A popup will show, press OK. This will then make the cell(s) you selected locked and unable to be edited.
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How to Change to a PDF File
1. Open the file you want to convert into a PDF. This example will use a Word document, but the process will be the same for other Office apps like Excel and PowerPoint. 2. Go to File in the top ribbon. 3. Find the Export and select it. 4. Then click the option to Create PDF/XPS. 5. A window should pop up of your File Explorer where you can then save the PDF. Note the Type underneath the name of the document is now PDF. Press Publish and your file is now a PDF.
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How to Change/Update a Profile Picture
This will walk through two ways to update a Profile picture on your Tweet/Garot office account. The default if you have no profile picture set is your initials. 1. Open Teams and click on your current Profile picture or initials in the top right corner. 2. Select View Account. 3. This should open a My Account page in the web. Here you should see a small pencil icon by the bottom of the current picture or initials above your name, select it. 4. A new window should show up with options to Change Photo, Remove Photo, or edit what is currently there by zooming in and such. Selecting Change Photo will open File Explorer, and if you select Remove Photo, it will ask for confirmation before removing. Be sure to press Save once you have made the changes you would like. 5. If you do not have access to Teams at the moment and would like another way, open an internet browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge and navigate to office.com. 6. Just like with Teams, you should click on your current profile photo or initials in the upper right corner and navigate to View Account. 7. Once there, you can follow the same steps of clicking the pen icon by above your name by the current profile photo or initials, and then selecting Changing Photo or Remove Photo based on what you would like to accomplish. Be sure to press Save once you have made the changes you would like.