CCI Tech Tip Tuesdays

A lot of us rely on our saved bookmarks, passwords and history in Google Chrome.  Because of an update to Windows 10 that is underway by our IT department, everyone will need to sign into Chrome to save these features and settings by end of day this Friday, August 31st.   See the below message from our Technical Support Analyst Will Doren: "We are in the process of updating Windows 10 to the latest version. With this upgrade your google chrome will be reset to the original settings therefore erasing your saved bookmarks passwords and history, but by signing into Chrome you can save all these features and settings. Please see the instructions below and use your  CCI Issued GMail Account.   This will be  courtinnovation.org ,  sossou thbronx.org ,  crownheights.org ,  legalhand.org . If you have any questions please reach out to  ccitechsupport@nycourts.gov  for help." Please see  this article  about how ...

With vacation season upon us, setting an Out of Office message for your email helps keep things running smoothly in your absence.  Here's how to set this feature up in Outlook: 1. When in the Outlook app, click on “File” in the top navigation bar. 2. Select “Automatic Replies (Out of Office)” 3. This brings up a pop up window.  In this window, click “Send Automatic Replies” 4. Select “Only send during this time range” 5. Select the date range that you'll be out of the office 6. Below the date range, there are two tabs- "Inside my Organization" and "Outside my Organization".  This lets you send a different out of office message to CCIers than to people outside CCI. 7. In each tab, type up your out of office message.  If using the same message for both inside and outside the organization, you can copy and paste the text to the second tab. 8. If you are accessing Outlook via the web, Out of Office messages are in a different pl...

If you ever need to consult a spreadsheet while looking at a website, it can be frustrating to have to go back and forth between Excel and your web browser.   One way to make it easier is to convert your Excel spreadsheet into a Google Sheet (Gmail's version of the spreadsheet).  This way, you can have the data you need in the tab next door to the website you're looking at.  Read how  here .