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March 16, 2007

8 Microsoft Office Tools

Here are short tutorials and explanations for 8 common Microsoft Office Tools that all or most of the applications use. These help you productivity when using the Office applications and help you and your document users become more efficient.  

Auto Format As You Type
Describes how the”auto format as you type” feature works in Office 2003.

Layering
This Layering tutorial shows you various ways to work with many objects (pictures, graphics, Auto Shapes etc.) and to virtually merge them to display as object.

Hyperlinks
This tutorial teaches you how to create a hyperlink that links to anywhere on your current document, to a different document or to a Web site. 

Equation Editor
Find out and practice what the Equation Editor toolbar is used for and then use it in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Inserting Objects Into Office Applications
Explains how to use the Insert Objects option so you can insert other Office application documents into your current open one you’re working on. For example, you can insert an Excel Spreadsheet into a Word document, and then you can either update the spreadsheet dynamically through the Word document, or merely view the spreadsheet statically.

Common Microsoft Office Shortcuts
Here is what you need for knowing and using the most common keyboard shortcuts for all the applications in Microsoft Office.

Spell Check
This is a tutorial that demonstrates how to use Spell Check in Microsoft Office. Using this feature will help you spell word correctly.

Auto Correct
This is a tutorial that explains how the Auto Correct spelling feature works in all Office applications, and how to use it to help you spell correctly as you type.

Popularity: 2% [?]


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    March 19, 2007

    10 Publisher 2003 Tutorials

    Here are 10 Publisher 2003 Tutorials that will get you going with this desktop publishing application in Microsoft Office. Learn how to perform and create the following using Publisher: all the basic features; insert and edit graphics; create newsletters, brochures, and booklets; working with text boxes, and editing pages.

     
    Publisher 2003: Basics
    This tutorial describes and teaches all of the fundamental features of Publisher 2003.

    Publisher 2003: Graphics
    This tutorial takes you through the steps of how to insert and edit graphics in your Publisher document.  The picture toolbar is also explained to make this easier.

    Publisher 2003: Newsletters
    Describes and teaches how to make a professional looking newsletter using Publisher.

    Publisher 2003: E-mail Newsletters
    Learn how to make great looking newsletters for email with Publisher.

    Publisher 2003: Brochures
    Shows and explains how to easily create great looking brochures using Publisher 2003′s brochure template.

    Publisher 2003: Booklets
    This Publisher tutorial demonstrates and teaches how to make great looking booklets.

    Publisher 2003: Connect Text Boxes
    This will teach you how connect text boxes from one page to another within a Publisher document, such as a newsletter.

    Publisher 2003: Working with Pages
    Shows and explains how to edit and manage a 2-page spread withing a Publisher publication, and also add, move, remove, and copy pages.

    Publisher 2003: Blank Tutorial
    This tutorial teaches you how to use Publisher 2003 when beginning with a blank document instead of one created out of the ready-made templates.

    Publisher 2003: Printing a Newsletter onto 11×17
    Shows how to print a 4-page newsletter on a single 11×17 piece of paper using Publisher.

    Popularity: 7% [?]


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    8 Macromedia Flash Tutorials

    Macromedia Flash (now Adobe) provides you the ability, as a web designer, to insert and integrate video, graphics, animations, and audio, into your web pages and applications. Flash makes is possible to give your users a more interactive and positive experience, thus delivering greater results in areas of page retention, registrations, marketing, etc. Here are 8 Macromedia Flash Tutorials hosted by newtutorials.com that show you how to perform or create the following using Flash: masking effects, preloading, rotating objects, mouse followers, a drop-down menu, an animation, and a color flash light.


    Cool Masking Effect Cool Masking Effect
    - This tutorial teaches you how to create a cool effect, with masking, using Flash MX.
    Preloader Tutorial Preloader Tutorial
    - This shows you and explains how to create a Flash Preloader.
    Rotating Objects in Flash Rotating Objects
    - In this tutorial, you will see how to rotate objects in Flash.
    Mouse Follower: Part 1 Mouse Follower: Part 1
    - Here you can find out how to force objects to follow the mouse pointer around the screen.
    Mouse Follower: Part 2 Mouse Follower: Part 2
    - Part 2 of Mouse Follower finishes the tutorial on getting objects to follow the mouse pointer.
    Drop Down MenuDrop Down Menu
    - Using this tutorial, you will find out how to make a Drop-down menu using Flash MX..
    Moving Lines TutorialMoving Lines Tutorial
    - This tutorial demonstrates and explains how to use Tweening to create an animation using Flash MX.
    Flash Light TutorialColor Flash Light Tutorial
    - Discover how to create the Color Flash Light Effect using Flash MX.

    Popularity: 3% [?]


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    March 22, 2007

    Top 7 Photoshop Tutorials from Sitepoint

    Here are 7 of the best Photoshop Tutorials from Sitepoint, which hosts many good web development tutorials.


    Controlled Image Sharpening with Photoshop CS2
    Learn how to use Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter with your images and photos. Gaining mastery using this Photoshop tool includes learning some good techniques, and having a little patience and an artistic eye.


    Web Domination Using Photoshop
    This Photoshop tutorial teaches you some of the basic tasks that you need to know as a Photoshop user. These include resizing and rotating documents and layers, working with masks, creating curves and custom shapes, working with transparent images, gradients, style dialogs, and more.


    5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop 
    Discover how to do the following masking techniques using Photoshop: Isolate objects; Extract objects; Cut out an image; Remove a background. You’ll learn how to take a photo and isolate an object in it from the rest of the image, without the background.


    Fade Images in Photoshop Using Layer Masks
    This Photoshop tutorial will show you two ways to use Layer Masks to fade pictures. Doing this will also help you perform these tasks:

    • Transfer or copy images into a Photoshop document
    • Work with layers
    • Use the gradient, brush, and move tools
    • Resize images and layers

    Design a Website In Photoshop
    Learn the graphical method to designing and laying out a website from the beginning.


    Photoshop Shortcuts At A Glance
    Learn the many keyboard shortcuts that are available to use in Photoshop/

    Creating Batch File Processes in Photoshop
    Find out how to do batch file processes with Photoshop, such as loading images from a CD and converting them to low-resolution (web) and RGB mode.

    Popularity: 2% [?]


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    Office Quick Reference Guides

    Here are eight excellent 2-page Office Quick Reference Guides for Word 2003, Excel 2003, Outlook 2003 and 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Project 2002, and Visio Professional 2003 and 2002. These will come in handy when you need to find out how to do a task and perform a feature quickly in these Office applications.

    Word 2003

    Excel 2003

    Outlook 2003

    Outlook 2002

    PowerPoint 2003

    Project 2002

    Visio 2003 Professional

    Visio 2002 Professional

    Popularity: 10% [?]


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    March 23, 2007

    Flash MX Quick Reference Guide

    Here is a nice 2-page Flash MX quick reference guide, or cheat sheet. It covers the Flash features and functionality listed below. This short guide can help you use Flash very efficiently.


    Flash MX Quick Reference Guide


    Topics and Features covered:

    • The Toolbox
    • Libraries
    • Keyboard Shortcuts.
    • The Timeline
    • The Stage
    • Tweened Animation
    • Adding Motion Guides
    • Frame-By-Frame Animation
    • Sounds
    • Editing Animation
    • The Movie Explorer
    • The Property Inspector

    Popularity: 3% [?]


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    March 26, 2007

    4 Dreamweaver Tutorials and 2 Reviews

    Here are the latest 4 Dreamweaver Tutorials and 2 Dreamweaver Reviews from Sitepoint. These tutorials deal with setting up Dreamweaver to be compliant with Web standards, customizing Dreamweaver’s config file, creating web animation using Dreamweaver, and adding simple Flash movies to your Web pages with Dreamweaver.

    Dreamweaver 8 Does Standards

    This is the latest Dreamweaver version from Macromedia and it supports Web standards and the WCAG more that previous versions did. This tutorial article describes how Dreamweaver previously supported standards and then demonstrates how to set up Dreamweaver 8 so its compliant with Web standards development. It then takes you through the creation of a Web document using XHTML Strict with some new Dreamweaver 8 tools which will help you generate code that is both accessible and standards compliant.


    Customize Dreamweaver MX to Your Needs

    This tutorial demonstrates how you can setup and customize Dreamweaver the way you want to use it. Though it pertains to Dreamweaver MX, many of the examples and tweaks shown here can be performed in earlier versions. You will be updating the Dreamweaver config file in the /Configuration/ directory. Backing up of this file is recommended and it needs to be modified by a text editor, not by Dreamweaver itself.


    Animation in Dreamweaver

    This tutorial shows you how to perform animation in a Web page using a Dreamweaver inspector called the “TimeLine Inspector”. Dreamweaver is able to generate this animation by using JavaScript, which does this by coordinating the location of an object or image with the time between each location. A Dreamweaver animation created in a Web page must have at least one start and one end point.


    Easy Flash with Dreamweaver 4

    This tutorial shows you how to use the tools in Dreamweaver 4 to quickly add simple Flash movies directly to your Web pages. The tools to add Flash are Flash Text and Flash Buttons, and the designs are built into these tools. The controls to use to do this are all in the Objects panel, starting with the Common Objects panel.


    Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed

    Here is a review of Dreamweaver 8, detailing the pros, and outlining the cons, of this release to help you make a purchasing decision on it. The user experience of Dreamweaver 8 is basically the same as the previous versions. The panels are all about the same, located in the same locations, and the toolbars and tabs are identical. However, deep inside the application, Dreamweaver 8 does provide some brand new features and ways of doing things. For one thing, for web developers, this version provides an almost real coding IDE, which offers new features for writing better code quicker, for those who don’t want a WYSIWYG editor.


    Review - Dreamweaver MX 2004

    In Dreamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia has redone the look and feel of the user interface, but these changes are basically skin deep, and all features and functionality works pretty much the same way it did in Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver 4. The most important update is better support for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), including complete pop-up hints for hand-coding CSS. The major feature of this new CSS funcationality in this release is the Relevant CSS Panel.

    Popularity: 2% [?]


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    March 28, 2007

    37 Word Tutorials and Articles

    Here are 37 well written Word Tutorials and Articles from Computorcompanion.com. These will help you become more productive and efficient with using Word, and at the same time also help you learn and start using some of its more advanced features and techniques.


    Create Flash Cards in Word
    Learn how to make flash cards as a teaching aide and studying for tests.

    Get Your Book Done
    Learn how to write a book using Word.

    Answers to Your Questions
    Find out to configure Word to print the document file path automatically

    Word - Section by Section
    Find out how to use and manage sections in Word and make your documents more clear.

    Create a Quick To Do List Form
    This shows you how to create lists in Word, and specifically a to do list.

    A Glimpse at New Office 2007 Features Via Word
    Find out waht some of the new features how the new user interface looks like in Office 2007.

    Label a Lot of File Folders Using Word’s Mail Merge
    Learn how to perform a mail merge using Avery labels and Microsoft Word.

    Make Word Graphics Do What You Want
    Learn what your options are with wrapping your text in Word around images.

    Create a Fax Cover Sheet in Word
    Here you will create a nicely designed fax cover sheet that can help you look more professional.

    Create a Calendar in Word
    This Word tutorial will teach you how to create calendar page without using a special template or macros.

    Create a Newsletter in Microsoft Word Without Text Boxes
    This tutorial shows you how to create a newsletter in Word without including any text boxes.

    Answers to Your Questions
    Discover how to make Word menu items appear again, after they have disappeared.

    Understand Word’s Headers and Footers
    This tutorial shows you how to enter and do some tricks with Word Headers and Footers.

    Exporting Word Form Data
    This tutorial explains how to export data from Word to Access or Excel.

    Create a Resume in Word
    This teaches you some nice design and style tips to write a resume which will draw attention.

    Create a Certificate in Microsoft Word
    This tuorial explains to easily use Word’s border and watermark features to make a certificate.

    Pass Repeated Information in a Word Document
    This shows you how to automatically copy repeated text to other locations in your Word document.

    Create a Table of Contents in Word
    Learn how to create a table of contents in Word when you are using styles.

    Create a Newsletter in Word
    This will show you how to layout and create a newsletter using Word.

    Creating an Index in Word
    Find out how to make an index for a document In Word, showing the words used and which page number they are on, at the end of the document.

    Automate Word Watermarks
    Create watermarks, save them as AutoText, and insert at will.

    Create Business Cards in Word
    Design and make business cards for yourself and others using the label features in Word.

    Use AutoText to Create a Text Library
    Categorize AutoText and use fields to make instant documents.

    Create a Photo Album in Word
    Learn how to make photo presentations using Word.

    Little-Known Word Keyboard Tricks
    Learn how you can become more efficient using Word by using these keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse.

    Tricky Type Techniques
    If you you don’t have graphics available, this article shows you how to use type to make to your documents more appealing.

    Add AutoShapes in Word
    This tutorial describes how to use AutoShapes to make your Word documents more attractive.

    Create Quick Greeting Cards in Word
    Save money and get creative by creating your greeting cards with Word.

    Get Organized Now!
    Shows how to create tables in Word that you can then use to help you organize your files on your computer.

    Use Word to Create a Tri-Fold Brochure
    Learn how create a tri-fold brochure using columns in any Word version.

    Organize Your Contact Information
    Store your information for your contacts by using Word’s data form

    Find Word’s Buried Treasures
    Discover many of the cool features and techniques that are available for you to use in Word.

    Merge Pictures and Words – Oh My!
    Find out how to use the catalog merge feature in Word so you can merge words and images in your document.

    OLE by Example
    Learn how to create a spreadsheet and pie chart with survey data in Excel and then analyze and present this in Word.

    Speed up with Styles
    This Word tutorial shows you how to get started with using styles, which will make you much more efficient with using Word. A style is just a group of text formatting characteristics that you give a name.

    Merge Spreadsheet Data Into Word
    This tutorial will show you how to make form letters in Word and them merge spreadsheet data into them.

    Adjusting Microsoft Word to Fit
    This will show you how to change the options and setups in Word so it will be more useful for your way of working with it.

    Popularity: 2% [?]


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    March 29, 2007

    14 Excel Tutorials and Articles

    Here are 14 Excel Tutorials and Articles from Computorcompanion.com that will show you how to be more productive and useful with Excel (Microsoft’s spreadsheet application). Your skills and ability to analayze, crunch, and present your numeric and other data will improve by reading and applying the concepts presented by these Excel tutorials.   


    Let Excel Solve All Your Problems
    Learn how to create a problem-solving grid in Excel and use it to help in making decisions.

    Use Excel to Get Dates
    This will show you how to do straight-forward date date calculations in an Excel spreadsheet.

    How Excel Taught Me to Cook
    This short tutorial describes how to use drop-down pick lists in Excel. The application is to plan a month’s worth of meals.

    Chart Events in Microsoft Excel
    Find out how to create and use chart events in Excel.

    Create Multiple Combination Charts in Excel
    This Excel tutorial will teach you how to create multiple combination create charts.

    Use Excel to Achieve Your Goals
    Here is a way of using Excel to keep track your goals.

    Manage Your Inventory in Excel
    This Excel tutorial shows you a great method of managing your stock so you know exactly what quantity for each item to order.

    OLE by Example
    This tutorial shows you how to create an Excel spreadsheet and its chart and insert  it into Word for a nice presentation.

    Debt by the Numbers
    This Excel how-to shows you how to create a spreadsheet created specifically for costs and use to analyze this type of data.

    Getting Started with Spreadsheets
    This Excel tutorial shows you how to get started with using Excel spreadsheets to manage, store, and analyze data.

    Calculating in a Spreadsheet
    Find out how to create and use formulas in Excel in spreadsheets.

    Merge Spreadsheet Data Into Word
    This merging tutorial shows you how to take your data in Excel and merge it into a form letters in Word.

    Graphing Success
    Learn how to create graphs in Excel so you can better examine your important data.

    Integrate Excel in Word
    This tutorial shows you how to import your data from an Excel spreadsheet into Word.

    Popularity: 2% [?]


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    Photoshop Ebook

    Photoshop is the world’s most popular image editor, which will allow you to edit both digital photos and bit-mapped graphics, from any source. It runs on both the Apple Macintosh and the Windows PC. This Photoshop Ebook covers all of Photoshop’s features and functions that are available for version 6. Its file size 15,128kb, contains 1047 pages, and is pdf format. The ebook will teach you how to use Photoshop using step-by-step directions and demonstrations. It also provides many tips, tricks, and design techniques that will help you create visually attractive images and photos.

    Table of Contents:

    Part I: Welcome to Photoshop

    • Chapter 1:What’s Up with Photoshop
    • Chapter 2:Inside Photoshop
    • Chapter 3:Image Fundamentals

    Par II: Painting and Retouching
    • Chapter 4:Defining Colors
    • Chapter 5:Painting and Editing
    • Chapter 6:Filling and Stroking
    • Chapter 7: Retouching, Repeating, and Restoring

    Part III: Selections, Masks, and Filters
    • Chapter 8:Selections and Paths
    • Chapter 9:Masks and Extractions
    • Chapter 10:Corrective Filtering
    • Chapter 11:Full-Court Filtering

    Part IV: Layers, Objects, and Text
    • Chapter 12:Working with Layers
    • Chapter 13:The Wonders of Blend Modes
    • Chapter 14:Shapes and Styles
    • Chapter 15:Fully Editable Text

    Part V: Color for Print and the Web
    • Chapter 16:Essential Color Management
    • Chapter 17:Mapping and Adjusting Colors
    • Chapter 18:Printing Images
    • Chapter 19:Creating Graphics for the Web

    Popularity: 2% [?]


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