Useful Links

Below are informative links to help you find the resources you need. Just click to connect to a website link.  Let us know if there is something you'd like added!

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Software Help:

• Microsoft Office Online 
• Office Knowledge Base is a community for Microsoft Office users
• Allen Wyatt's Word Tips
• Allen Wyatt's Excel Tips
• Joseph Rubin's Excel Tips 
• New Horizons tips & tricks - sign up for free weekly newsletters
• Beyond Bullet Points
• PowerPoint Heaven
• Ellen Finklestein - PowerPoint News and Features
• The PowerPoint FAQ Help
• Clif Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points  
• Indezine - all things PowerPoint: articles, newsletters, free templates, etc.
• HowToGeek.com Shows You How To Do Everything in MS Office (from OfficePro Express Aug 27 2009)
  "There's not much to say about this how-to encyclopedia provided by HowToGeek.com, except that there are hundreds of Microsoft Office how-to guides to be perused, covering everything from making the MS Office 2007 Suite save as 2003 by default, to using MS Word as a blog publisher. You could spend weeks learning things about the Office Suite you never would have known."
  

Reference Tools:

• Updated (4/2010) IAAP User Guide! 
• United States Post Office 
• Phone Number Information - Anywho.com
• Zip Code - Find A Zip! -- United States Post Office
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• American Rhetoric
• Currency Calculators:   Xurrency  -- OANDA  --  XE Universal Currency Converter --
• Fact Index
• Brainy Quote
• Letter Writing Guide contains tips, advice, and sample letters to help you in your letter writing activities.
• Another letter writing guide...
• Writing Help Tools
• Grammar Girl
• Dictionary of Name Pronunciation 
• CometDocs - free online file converter
• Make Use of - websites, software & internet tips; recommended by Ben McClanahan for a PowerPoint/web header tip
• CrackBerry - Thanks to Sam Gill & Karen Mason who both recommended CrackBerry! This site has information for BlackBerry users.
• Password Strength Checker -  an application designed to assess the strength of password strings. The site allows you to see how good/bad your password is in today's security conscious environment! 
  

Something Fun!

• There is a website called pocketmod.com which allows you to make and print a very small notebook from a single sheet of A4 (letter-size) paper. You get 8 sections to put different designs on (grid, lines, schedule etc.) and one of the designs is a storyboard layout (within the "Writing Guides" folder).

• Maps you can put your own notes on!  Scribble Maps