Google Docs Adds Per Section Margins and New Break Formatting Tools

The latest update to Google Docs adds two new tools to the G Suite word processor that improves page formatting. Especially useful when printing, the first deals with inserting and viewing breaks, while the second works in tandem to allow custom section margins.

Insert section breaks and view section breaks in Docs
You can now insert a next page or continuous section break in Google Docs by going to Insert > Break. From here, you can select next or continuous. Note both types of breaks will start at the place of your cursor location.

To easily view where section breaks are located in your document, you can use the new show section breaks tool by going to View > Show section breaks. When Show selection breaks is enabled, you’ll see a blue dotted line where each section break is located.

Adjust margins per section 
It’s now possible to use the ruler to adjust the left and right margins by section. Previously, it was only possible to adjust the margins for the entire document.

If you don’t make a selection, the ruler will adjust the margins for the section that corresponds to the cursor location. Or, you can highlight multiple sections of your doc to be adjusted.

You can also adjust margins per-section by going to File > Page Setup.

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ITS to Launch 8 week Google Summer Collaboration Challenge

Starting Monday June 3rd, IT Services will be releasing a series of weekly tips aimed at improving communication and collaboration within the Manhattan College Community.  

A new tip will be available each week for the 8 weeks following commencement and before the start of the 2019-2020 academic year. Whether you are on campus or at home - student or employee - anyone can participate!

The 8-week Summer Collaboration Challenge will include tips and tricks ranging from basic to advanced topics such as email, Google Apps, ways to communicate to large audiences, better ways to manage time and activities via online calendars, and many more. Participants will have the opportunity to complete each phase of the 8-week challenge at their own pace - all at once, or as topics are released. Track your progress by completing a short questionnaire at the end of each challenge and earn the 8 -week Collaboration Challenge badge at the end of the program!  

GOOGLE COLLABORATION CHALLENGE BADGE

A digital badge is a way to communicate and track achievement, they make your credentials portable and your skills more visible. You can put the Digital Badge on your resume or link to your LinkedIn account.  These badges or digital certificates, are issued by Manhattan College and they do not expire.

Phishing Emails Pretend to be Office 365 'File Deletion' Alerts

A new phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be from the "Office 365 Team" warning recipients that there has been unusual amount of file deletions occurring on their account.

The phishing scam, pretends to be a warning from the Office 365 service that states a medium-severity alert has been triggered. It then goes on to say that there has been high amount of files deletions occurring in their Office 365 account and that they should review the alerts.

For more details please review this Phishing Emails Pretend to be Office 365 'File Deletion' Alerts  blog post.

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Directly Edit Microsoft Office Files with Google Docs, Sheets & Slides

What’s changing 

With Office editing, you can now edit, comment, and collaborate on Microsoft Office files using Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This feature brings the collaboration benefits of G Suite to Office files while streamlining workflows by eliminating the need to convert file types.

Why you’d use it 

Office editing will make it easy for G Suite users to open and edit Microsoft Office files that have been shared by partners, vendors or other teams. In cases where some members of your organization use Office while others use G Suite, this ensures seamless collaboration and eliminates the need to consider or convert file types.

Office editing brings everyone the benefits of G Suite’s real time collaboration tools and intelligence features to Office files.


End users:

• In Google Drive, double-click your Office file. This will open a preview of the file. 
• At the top, click Open in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. 
• From here, you can edit, share, view version history, collaborate in real-time with others, and more. 
• All changes you make will be saved to the original Office file. 

Additional details 

The following Office file types are supported: 

• Word files: .doc, .docx, .dot 
• Excel files: .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm (macro enabled Excel files), .xlt 
• Powerpoint files: .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .pot 

Note: If you edit Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents older than Office 2007, files will be saved to a newer format when editing using Office editing. 

Note: 

If you have the Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides Extension already installed it must be removed before this new feature will work:

Sign into Google Chrome Browser with your Managed Google Account

Navigate to the upper right of your screen to the Settings area

Select More Tools

Select Extensions

Locate the Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides from your options of extensions and select Remove

Helpful links 

To learn more about working with Office files using Office editing, see here. 

To learn more about removing the Office compatibility app, see here. 

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COMPLETED: Planned Network Maintenance in Miguel - June 5th from 7-9am

ITS will be conducting network maintenance in Miguel Hall on Wednesday, June 5th, which will cause some localized network outages between 7am and 9am.

In order to improve network reliability, there will be scheduled network maintenance in order to replace some network equipment. This network maintenance will affect the wired and wireless networks in Miguel.

We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact ITS at x-7973 or its@manhattan.edu

Update: This maintenance has been completed as of 8am this morning.

Scam Emails from "manhattan.edu@gmail.com" Accounts Today

We have received several reports of scam emails being sent to the campus community today from accounts ending in "manhattan.edu@gmail.com".  These are scams and should be disregarded.  Luckily, in all the reported incidents, community members quickly recognized it as a scam.  We appreciate these being reported and the vigilance that the community has shown today.

Example of how these emails look: john.doemanhattan.edu@gmail.com

Please continue to report suspicious emails at its@manhattan.edu

Don't click the link or any attachments.

JasperNet SSO Updates

ITS will be updating the JasperNet SSO system throughout the week.  As a result, users will be directed to an updated login page.

JasperNet services will be migrated to the new login page throughout the week.  We do not anticipate any downtime or service interruptions during this update.