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August 9, 2006

Free Books for Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, and Premier

Here are 4 freely available ebooks, two covering Adobe Acrobat, and one each for Illustrator and Premier. These Acrobat, Illustrator and Premier ebooks will give you many details and instructions on how to use the features and functions of these Adobe applications.

Adobe Acrobat 6 Bible (pdf)
54mb

Adobe Acrobat 6 0 Getting Professional Results from Your PDFs
chm, 14327 kb

Adobe Illustrator CS for Dummies (chm)
16mb

Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6 5 in 24 hours (chm)
2mb

Popularity: 11% [?]

Freely Available eBooks for Adobe Software

Books for Flash, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Studio MX, InDesign, Illustrator

Free Books on Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Paint Shop Pro, 3DS Max

Learn Adobe Illustrator – Tutorials

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August 10, 2006

11 Freely available Ebooks on Microsoft Office 2003

Here are 11 freely available ebooks on Microsoft Office 2003. Access is the database application for the Microsoft Office application suite. These MS Office ebooks provide many details and instructions on how to use the features and functions of the applications in this office suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and FrontPage.

Microsoft Office 2003 in 10 Simple Steps or Less (zip)
(16mb)

Teach Yourself Office 2003 in 24 Hours
(chm, 7mb)

Microsoft Office 2003 Super Bible
(pdf, 34mb)

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2003
(chm, 22mb)

How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003
(pdf, 11499 kb)

Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques for Dummies
(pdf, 18152 kb)

Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference
(pdf, 10400 kb)

Using Microsoft Office 2003 Student Teacher Edition
(chm, 25024 kb)

Degunking Microsoft Office
(pdf, 73740 kb)

Illustrated Office 2003
(pdf, 338673 kb)

Office 2003 XML
(chm, 6360 kb)

Popularity: 18% [?]

Freely Available Microsoft Office eBooks

8 Free Ebooks for Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Office 2003

3 Free Microsoft Outlook 2003 Ebooks

6 Freely available Ebooks on Microsoft Access 2003 and 2002 (XP)

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August 14, 2006

Microsoft Excel Examples and Tips

John Lacher, MBA has more than 10 years of experience as a developer of Microsoft Office based computer applications. His Excel Examples and Tips offer a wealth of free knowledge on how to effectively use many of Excel’s intermediate and advanced features. For each example he provides an instruction page and an Excel spreadsheet containing the feature being demonstrated. Topics covered include forecasting, pivot tables, business related formulas, advanced formulas, charts and graphs, VBA coding, and dates and times. If you are having trouble downloading the spreadsheets or files, here are some downloading tips.

Microsoft Excel Examples and Tips

Popularity: 7% [?]

12 Step-by-Step Excel Tutorials

Excel Functions and Formulas Help and Support

12 Excel Tips and Articles

6 Excel 2007 Tutorials

Tags for this post>> Excel

Filed under: Free Microsoft Office Training and Tutorial Resources — computer_teacher @ 11:55 am

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Free Course on AJAX Programming

Check out my post on intelligentedu.com‘s free training blog for this excellent free, instructor-led online course for AJAX programming . This AJAX course is offered as a free online course on regular basis 2 or 3 times a year and you can register for it any time, and also take it as many times as you want in the future. Of course, if you’d like you can study the AJAX lessons, slides, and materials on your own at any time, without registering.

Free Course on AJAX Programming

Popularity: 3% [?]

Tutorials for Learning How to Code in AJAX

Great Tutorials for Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Dreamweaver MX

The University of Wisconsin hosts the following comprehensive tutorials for Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Dreamweaver MX. These Dreamweaver tutorials cover virtually all of the features and functionality of these versions of Dreamweaver.

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Tutorials

Environment

Basics

Lists

Links

Images

Image Maps

Working with Hotspots

Colors

Tables

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Templates

Local & Remote Sites

Forms

Find and Replace

Maintaining a Website

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Tutorials

Environment

Basics

Lists

Links

Images

Image Maps

Working with Hotspots

Colors

Tables

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Templates

Local & Remote Sites

Forms

Find and Replace

Maintaining a Website

Popularity: 6% [?]

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Tags for this post>> Dreamweaver

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Outlook User Guide

Here is a nicely written and illustrated User Guide for Outlook 2000. It covers many of this email and scheduling application’s features and functions. Many of these topics are also applicable to Outlook 2003.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 User Guide

How do I…

	Composing Messages
	…compose a new message?
	…insert an attachment?
	…set the importance of a message?
	…flag a message?
	…sign messages with an AutoSignature?
	…use voting buttons?
	…track who has read my message?
	…send a fax?

	Reading Messages
	…read a message?
	…save an attachment?
	…save an attachment?
	…print a message?
	…delete a message?

	Working with Items and Folders
	…move an item to another folder?
	…select multiple items?
	…create a folder?
	…delete an item or folder?
	…purge items from the Deleted Items folder?
	…recover deleted items?

Introducing…

	Outlook
	…the Outlook Bar
	…the Folder List
	…items
	…the Information Viewer

	Outlook Folders
	…your Mailbox
	…Outlook Today
	…the Calendar folder
	…the Contacts folder
	…the Deleted Items folder
	…the Drafts folder
	…the Inbox folder
	…the Journal folder
	…the Notes folder
	…the Outbox folder
	…the Sent Items folder
	…the Task folder

	Using Personal Folders
	…create Personal Folders?

	Using Contacts and the Personal Address Book
	…add a new contact?
	…create a Personal Distribution List?

	Using the Rules Wizard and Out of Office Assistant
	…use the Rules Wizard?
	…use the Out of Office Assistant?

	Using the Calendar
	…schedule an appointment, meeting or event?
	…cancel an appointment, meeting or event?
	…set my working hours?

	Sharing Folders
	…share folders in my Mailbox?

	Getting Help
	…get more help on Outlook?

Popularity: 5% [?]

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August 18, 2006

23 Free Ebooks for Flash 5, Flash MX, and Flash 8

Here are 23 freely available ebooks for Flash 5, Flash MX, and Flash 8. These will help you learn advanced techniques and features of using Flash, including coding Actionscript.

ActionScript for Flash MX (chm)
Flash Remoting (chm)
Flash 5 Bible (pdf)
Flash MX Actionscript eBook (pdf)
Flash MX for Windows (pdf)
Flash 5 (pdf)
Flash MX Manual (pdf)
Using Flash MX (pdf)
Flash 5 Bible (pdf)
Flash and XML Developers Guide (chm)
Flash MX (pdf)
Using Flash MX (pdf)
Flash MX Advanced (pdf)
Flash MX ActionScript (chm)
Server-Side Communication Actionscript Dictionary (pdf)
ActionScript for Flash MX, 2nd Edition (chm)
Flash MX Action Script (chm)
Flash 8 Actionscript (rar)
Flash Motion Graphics (rar)
Developing Flashlite Apps (rar)
Flash 8 Projects for Animation and Interactivity
Flash 8 Bible Flash MX Techniques (pdf)

Popularity: 23% [?]

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Tags for this post>> Flash

Filed under: Free Training for Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and other Adobe & Macromedia Apps — computer_teacher @ 11:16 pm

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Free Web Development and Infrastructure Ebooks

Here are 22 free ebooks and online books covering web development and web infrastructure building. These are somewhat dated, but many are still valuable resources to learn from.

Complete Idiot’s Guide to HTML.zip

DHTML Black book.zip

HTML The Definitive Guide 2nd Edition.zip

HTML by example.zip

JacaScript Bible 4th edition.zip

JavaScript Bible golden edition.zip

Perl Quick Reference

Perl Web Programming

CGI Programming On The World Wide Web.zip

CGI programming unleashed.zip

Using CGI Special Edition.zip

MySQL.and.mSQL.eBook

Using Linux As A Router.pdf

Building_Internet_Firewalls.zip

Firewalls_Complete.zip

Apache Server HowTo

Apache Server Surviver

Teach Yourself Books:

CGI Programming With Perl 5

Javascript

Perl 5

SQL 2nd Edition

TCP/IP 2nd Edition

Popularity: 7% [?]

Free Ebooks on Web Development, AJAX, ASP.NET, and XSLT

Freely Available Web Development eBooks

31 Free eBooks on Website Design, Development and Programming

12 Free Ebooks for Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Macromedia CF MX 7

Tags for this post>> Web Design | Web Programming

Filed under: Free Microsoft Office Training and Tutorial Resources — computer_teacher @ 11:50 pm

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32 Tips for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word

Here are a total of 32 tips and tricks for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. These will help you better utilize the features of these Microsoft Office applications.

Microsoft Excel

Fill in a Series of Dates or Numbers
Rid Yourself of Fine Lines
Open Specific Spreadsheets at Start-Up
Fractions or Decimals?
Enter More than one line of Data in a Cell
Protect Cells From Data Entry
Give your Worksheet a Backgroun
Don’t Lose Sight of Your Headings
Change the Cursor’s Default Direction

Microsoft Outlook

Archive Your Data
Manage Junk E-Mail
Distribution Lists
E-mailing Notes
Display Contacts by Nickname
Customize Your Startup
Improve your Message Mobility
New Contacts from Incoming E-mail
Ensure E-mail Delivery

Microsoft PowerPoint

Annotating Slides
Maintain Proportions While Resizing Elements
Import Outlines From Word
Animate your Slide Show
Create Semi-transparent Objects
Use Curved Text
Check Your Formatting
Use Portions of Images
Making Notes in Slide Sorter View

Microsoft Word

‘Webbed ‘ Tables
Watermark Your Documents
Convert Tables to Plain Old Text
Center Text Vertically
Get Rid of Curly Quotes
Collate Documents
Bring Straying Lines Back Into Fold
Create Email Signatures
Take the Synonym Shortcut

Popularity: 5% [?]

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Tags for this post>> Excel | Outlook | Powerpoint | Word

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August 28, 2006

Excel Tutorials and Access VBA Functions

Meadinkent.co.uk provides the following well documented help and tutorials for Microsoft Excel and Access. This site will help you to learn and use many features of Excel and shows you how to code visual basic functions for Access, keeping you productive with these two office applications. A detailed Excel help index is also available.

Excel Help and Tutorials

Here are many helpful Excel tutorials containing information on many features and functions of Excel, including functions and calculations, IF conditions and selecting, formatting cells and values, dates and times, sharing data with other programs, reference, navigation, graphs, and short cuts.

Functions and Calculations

Sum, Average and Count – the most basic functions
Financial functions such as compound interest and loan repayments
A detailed example of calculating loan repayments
Investment appraisal using NPV and IRR
Weighted averages and assessing risk
Frequency an array function to count ranges of values

IF, conditions and selecting

DSum, DAverage – database functions
VLookup, Match to find a particular value within a range of data
If, And, Or, Rank, Errors – logical functions and preventing errors
A macro and an Advanced Filter to select records
Selecting values from drop down lists and boxes
Conditional SUM formulae and a costing model using SumProduct
Using Arrays to apply selective rules to functions

Formatting Cells and Values

Text, Abs and formatting cells with numbers or dates
Conditional formatting of cells (2 pages)
A VBA function to return cell colors
Summing the values of cells which are a particular color
Protecting cells and worksheets
Displaying number values as words
Extracting text from strings and phrases
Configuring the appearance of Excel at startup
A VBA function to display cell contents

Dates and Times

Date and Time functions and calculations
Calculating hours worked and shift enhancements
An office holiday leave planner (SumProduct + Conditional Formatting)
Calculating the difference between two Dates

Sharing data with other programs

A simple macro to create web pages from Excel
A more complicated macro to make formatted web pages from Excel
Creating XML data files from Excel and Access using VBA
Linking tables and charts in a Word document to an Excel spreadsheet
Using PowerPoint to display information from Excel (2 pages)
Basic examples of displaying XML / XSL files in a web browser
An example of a cascading style sheet for web page design
Using a macro to export text files from tables and forms

Reference, Input and Navigation

Graphs which grow dynamically to include new data
Hyperlink navigation and buttons on worksheets
Two forms to input data and add it to a list using VBA macros
Using Indirect to enter cell references as text within formulas
Using Offset and Choose to select particular cells or values

Auditing and other stuff

Audit tools for checking a spreadsheet
Testing and mapping spreadsheets to check for design errors
Adding a macro to a toolbar and keyboard shortcuts
Improving your graphs using pictures and better axis labels
Tips for accountants on using Excel

Access Visual Basic Modules

The following are examples of various visual basic functions and procedures that can be used in Access databases. Some of these are linked to particular event properties on forms and reports. Most can be copied and pasted into modules and then called as needed. Be sure to always thoroughly test all of the code in your databases.