Binding Dissertations

I am a 4th year QTS PE student and have a question about printing off my dissertation. We have seen some past dissertation examples which are all printed onto good quality thicker paper. I was wondering if the library offers a service like this??

Thanks for your enquiry. Reprographics handles this type of work. Please visit the reprographics office at Bedford, Polhill (Schools Office - Copy Shop) and they will let you know if they can meet your specifications.

Saving files

I saved my work to the desktop when I was working in the iT Suite. I logged off and when I came back I couldn't find my files...

Oh dear. When you are working on the University network it isn't the same as working on your home pc. Saving to the desk top is only useful for that session. As soon as you log off the work is lost. Always save your work to your network space.

Different versions of Office

My new laptop has Office 2010, I can't open any of my files created at Uni on it.

If you are experiencing problems between two versions of Office (eg University Office 2007 new laptop Office 2010) you need to turn on the compatibility mode in Office 2010 - you can then use that to save documents in 2007.

We are advising customers not to save in RTF (not being fully supported by Word 2010 or future releases) as we believe they will lose formatting and other functionality from the document which may cause more problems than originally occurred from 2007 opening a 2010 document.

Microsoft advice at:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178980.aspx

SPSS for MACs

The LRC has received several request for copies of SPSS for MACs. The answer is:

Need to use (may be installed already) or download boot camp from the Apple site to use windows applications and thus run our version of SPSS.

Marketing info from Apple at:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/

We don't have any individual Mac licences as they are about £500 a go.