tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12076743747324626022024-03-05T13:46:55.385-08:00TSRI Software TipsSoftware tips for The Scripps Research Institute.Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-62219070880814374282013-05-23T19:15:00.002-07:002013-05-23T19:23:10.760-07:00Five tips for improving Mac performance<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I get many questions about improving Macs since we are hanging on to our computers longer. So when I read <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/search?a=erik+eckel" rel="">Erik Ecke's</a> Five Tips blog, May 22, 2013, I decided to post it.<br /><br /> </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Takeaway: These aren’t the cheapest or the easiest ways, but these tips for improving your Mac’s performance will have the most impact.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conduct a Google search for improving Mac performance and you’ll find all kinds of recommendations, some of which actually work. Spend all the time you want removing language packs, cleaning a Mac’s chassis and removing icons from the Mac Dock (all actions I’ve seen other Internet sites recommend), but if you really want to speed up a slow Mac, consider the following five steps. Note, these aren’t the “five easiest methods of speeding up a slow Mac” or even “the five cheapest methods of speeding up a slow Mac.” No, these are five proven methods for improving Mac performance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#1
Upgrade to a solid state disk</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SSDs are fast, certainly enough faster than a traditional drive that you or the end user will notice the performance boost. If you’re struggling to improve performance on a system, especially one running a 5400RPM drive or possessing a disk that’s failing, consider upgrading to an SSD. In addition to faster read and write operations, SSDs consume less energy, thereby extending mobile laptop users battery life. <br /><br />Just be sure to check and ensure the Mac will accommodate the new disk and that you’re capable of performing the upgrade yourself. Newer Macs, especially iMacs and Mac laptops, are challenging to upgrade; there’s no shame subcontracting the job to an authorized Apple agent. Also be sure to confirm the SSD you select boasts sufficient storage. SSDs are more expensive than HDDs and tend to prove better in situations where large storage capacities are not required.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#2 Add more memory</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most Macs ship with less physical memory than the machines accommodate. Upgrading a Mac’s RAM helps OS X obtain more overhead for processing operating system and application tasks, processes and operations, typically drastically improving performance. With RAM chips proving cost-effective (compared to purchasing a new, more capable machine), the upgrade can help cash-strapped organizations leverage another year or two from an otherwise capable system. <br /><br />As with SSDs, you can’t just rush out and purchase RAM, however. Each Mac requires a specific type of memory running at a specific speed. Further, the machine’s current configuration dictates whether some old chips might be removed to make room for the planned upgrade. Be sure to review a model’s specifications and current configuration before placing new RAM orders.</span>
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#3 Eliminate automatic program loading</h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over time, users install many applications that load automatically upon login. Or, users sometimes leave numerous applications open when they terminate their OS X sessions. Upon logging in, these applications automatically launch, which also automatically slows system performance. <br /><br />Review applications that automatically load (check the Dock and close any applications whose icons possess the tell-tale underscore highlight) and confirm login items are minimized. Administrators and users can review automatic login items by opening System Preferences, choosing Users & Groups, highlighting the corresponding user account and selecting the Login items tab. Uncheck the box for any application that need not automatically start upon logging in.</span></span>
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#4 Minimize or eliminate widget use</h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Weather updates, sports scores, Twitter feeds, Facebook utilities, stock tickers and even dancing hula animations are cool and groovy. However, these widgets, whether the user is actively using them or not, suck system resources. Check a slow-performing Mac’s Dashboard (reached from Mission Control, a hot corner or the Dashboard application itself) for unneeded widgets. Remove any unnecessary Dashboard program, as each requires system resources even when the Dashboard isn’t active.</span></span><br />
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#5 Confirm sufficient free disk space</h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exhaust available free disk space and a system slows. There’s no getting around it. Mac OS X, like Windows, requires free disk space for accommodating paging operations, storing files, adjusting email and database storage, and performing numerous other tasks. Review a system’s disk allocation to ensure sufficient free space exists. If insufficient space exists, either remove unnecessary files or upgrade to a larger disk.</span></span><br />
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How much free space is sufficient? There’s no magic formula. Most Macs should possess at least 10GB of free space, however, as doing so enables maybe 5GB of space for paging files and another 5GB for storing new documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photos, videos and other files. That said, if a system’s function is to edit video, the computer may require 20GB or more of free space, it just depends upon the model, user, applications in use, and tasks being performed</span></span><br />
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<br />Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-45209505772132705822012-10-03T15:54:00.000-07:002012-10-03T15:54:53.925-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">PowerPoint 2010: Comparing and Merging Presentations</span><br />
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If you develop a presentation with a group, multiple versions of the same presentation may exist. PowerPoint now allows you to compare and merge different versions of a PowerPoint file.<br />
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<li>Open the presentation that you want to merge.<br /><br /></li>
<li>Click the <b>Review</b> tab on the Ribbon and click the <b>Compare</b> button in the Compare group.<br />
The Choose File to Merge with Current Presentation dialog box appears.</li>
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<li>Navigate to the location of the file that you want to compare with the open presentation, select the file, and click <b>Merge</b>.<br /><br />
PowerPoint displays the merged file in Review mode. The Revisions pane opens, listing all changes to the presentation.<br />
There are two sections on the Details tab in the Revisions pane:<ul><br />
<li> <b>Slide changes</b>: Lists all of the changes that were made to the current slide.</li>
<li> <b>Presentation changes</b>: Lists all of the changes that were made to the presentation as a whole.</li>
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<li>Click a change on the Details tab in the Revisions pane.<br />
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<li><b>Accept a change</b>: Click the <b>check box</b> of the change or changes that you want to make.</li>
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<li>To move to the next change, click the <b>Review</b> tab on<br />
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<li> Repeat steps 4 through 6 until you are finished<br />
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<li>When finished, click the <b>Review</b> tab on the Ribbon<br />
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A dialog box appears warning you that any unapplied<br />
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<li>Click the <b>Save</b> button on the Quick Access Toolbar to<br />
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<li>To accept all of the changes to the presentation at once, click the <b>Review</b> tab on the Ribbon, click the <b>Accept</b> button list arrow in the Control group, and select <b>Accept All Changes to the Presentation</b> from the list.</li>
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<br />Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-68572809674459225722012-03-05T15:21:00.011-08:002012-03-05T15:30:13.065-08:00Print a Single Envelope in Word<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br />
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The first step is to check your printer for envelope placement. If you’re lucky, you have a special drawer for envelopes. Lacking a drawer, you’ll probably find placement instructions on the manual feed. Check carefully; you should find a small embossed indicator that specifies the feed position for envelopes. They’re all different, so be sure to check your printer. For example, this Lexmark Z32 feeds an envelope face up and the bottom flush with the right side of the feed tray.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Check the <b>Omit</b> option if you do not want to print the return address.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Add Electronic Postage and E-Postage Property options are available, but work only if you have installed the appropriate software beforehand. We won’t cover those options today.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Be sure to check the preview regularly, to make sure your choices match your needs.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">If the <b>Feed </b>method options aren’t showing the print facing the right direction, click the Clockwise Rotation option.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Use the <b>Feed From</b> dropdown if you have a special envelop drawer or feed.</span></li>
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</div></div>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-69201692952292608642009-07-02T11:35:00.000-07:002010-05-28T10:55:46.473-07:00Tips for formatting data in Office Excel 2007 for Mail Merge<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Today’s blog comes from Microsoft’s “Help and How-to RSS feed:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If your data file is an Office Excel worksheet that includes percentages, currency values, or postal codes, you can preserve the numeric formatting of the data by using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to connect to the Excel worksheet from Word. For example, you can make sure a five-digit postal code of 07865 from your data file is not displayed as the number 7865 (without the leading zero).</span><br /><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Before you connect to the worksheet, do the following in Word:</span></p><ol style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" start="1" type="1"><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">Click the <strong>Microsoft Office Button</strong> </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQ_NYgV9okxpRHL3-0-yGjuDPgu8ohO-0wp7rphv4Vs78P7COeKiEQGS_Gc1876kCA_HKLA1Jv1EKw2WHuJyxZO7Y_If7rc2YH_5BUICPOt0WjjMH0Gs6B7fsWi6BedxCbYZqwZMl-DM/s1600-h/office_btn.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 41px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQ_NYgV9okxpRHL3-0-yGjuDPgu8ohO-0wp7rphv4Vs78P7COeKiEQGS_Gc1876kCA_HKLA1Jv1EKw2WHuJyxZO7Y_If7rc2YH_5BUICPOt0WjjMH0Gs6B7fsWi6BedxCbYZqwZMl-DM/s200/office_btn.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353949175848432322" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">, and then click <strong>Word Options</strong>.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">Click <strong>Advanced</strong>.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">Scroll to the <strong>General</strong> section, and select the <strong>Confirm file format conversion on open</strong> check box.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">Click <strong>OK</strong>.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">With the mail merge main document open, in the <strong>Start Mail Merge</strong> group on the <strong>Mailings</strong> tab, click <strong>Select Recipients</strong>, and then click <strong>Use Existing List</strong>.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">Locate the Excel worksheet in the <strong>Select Data Source</strong> dialog box, and double-click it.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the <strong>Confirm Data Source</strong> dialog box, click <strong>MS Excel Worksheets via DDE (*.xls)</strong>, and then click <strong>OK</strong>.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></ol><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Note</span> </strong> If you don't see <strong>MS Excel Worksheets via DDE (*.xls)</strong>, select the <strong>Show all</strong> check box.<br /></span><ol style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" start="8" type="1"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><li class="content"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the <strong>Microsoft Office Excel</strong> dialog box, for <strong>Named or cell range</strong>, select the cell range or worksheet that contains the information that you want to merge, and then click <strong>OK</strong>.</span></li><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></ol><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Note</span> </strong> To prevent being prompted every time you open a data file, you can clear the <strong>Confirm conversion at Open</strong> check box after you connect to the worksheet.</span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></blockquote>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-7042649754744891072008-09-30T19:11:00.000-07:002008-09-30T20:09:07.683-07:00Recover Deleted Items in Outlook 2007Did you know that you can recover deleted items in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 even after you have emptied the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deleted Items</span> folder. In past versions of Outlook, once the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deleted Items</span> folder was emptied, those items were permanently deleted.<br /><br />But now you can recover these deleted items if you have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Exchange Server </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">account</span>. If you don't have an Exchange Server account here at Scripps Research, it's easy to get one. Just submit a service request to IT Services at <a href="http://www.scripps.edu/rc/hd/">http://www.scripps.edu/rc/hd/</a> or call the Help Desk x4-9369 and ask for one.<br /><br />Our Exchange Server administrator specifies the retention time for items that are deleted permanently on the server running Exchange. Our retention time is <span style="font-weight: bold;">30 days</span>. After this time elapses, you cannot recover the deleted items.<br /><br />You can view and recover deleted items, including the items that were deleted permanently, when you selected items and pressed SHIFT+ DELETE or SHIFT+<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRwDtR7xmureNo6DkahHDzBlJws4Ug3n_NkpGX9YXGJmY51iHHbv3wNaltG-kYoypdTJKAd5ARJd5S_fNPRBk_Hpw3H8PgYig1BsG8GjpRiDsIbvo4mS4xOFNBrnNAxY-cva5xrruMvI/s1600-h/shift_plus.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRwDtR7xmureNo6DkahHDzBlJws4Ug3n_NkpGX9YXGJmY51iHHbv3wNaltG-kYoypdTJKAd5ARJd5S_fNPRBk_Hpw3H8PgYig1BsG8GjpRiDsIbvo4mS4xOFNBrnNAxY-cva5xrruMvI/s400/shift_plus.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252002737013623058" border="0" /></a>.<br /><ol><li> In the folder from where you deleted the item, or in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deleted Items</span> folder, click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Recover Deleted Items</span> on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tools</span> menu.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfkWUevuS_6Tsrc1CTWUzgll-ptqj3ct6wJfxJLC5YY0qlFv54w9YAcC9Os0G4PTx2M0UAxGJ3vBxCgEUz71H0-UOe4l8r5azyo4UXHwh1fntwya26wNOaLtzFmhwVVpvIHthaf77ngTw/s1600-h/tools_menu.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfkWUevuS_6Tsrc1CTWUzgll-ptqj3ct6wJfxJLC5YY0qlFv54w9YAcC9Os0G4PTx2M0UAxGJ3vBxCgEUz71H0-UOe4l8r5azyo4UXHwh1fntwya26wNOaLtzFmhwVVpvIHthaf77ngTw/s400/tools_menu.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252002736754089778" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Click Recover Deleted Items on the Tools menu.</span></span><br /></li><li>Click an item and then click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Recover Selected Items</span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_genX4vLRSlkyr-A199m6kcI196eL-4bBlff2ELUuaWWT7ugncLTZPl4ncDzM_FMgxTPO3hIIC5IbTyHlUjBtsbd0mRRsi_8IIw-qu16l5EXyeFe3F2nXFWUkazBUJh1hSgSB35WjB0/s1600-h/recovrSelectditems.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_genX4vLRSlkyr-A199m6kcI196eL-4bBlff2ELUuaWWT7ugncLTZPl4ncDzM_FMgxTPO3hIIC5IbTyHlUjBtsbd0mRRsi_8IIw-qu16l5EXyeFe3F2nXFWUkazBUJh1hSgSB35WjB0/s400/recovrSelectditems.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252002735509882178" border="0" /></a>.<br /></li></ol>To select multiple items, press CTRL as you click each item.<br />Each recovered item is restored to the folder from which it was deleted.<br /><br />You cannot recover an item if it does not appear in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Recover Deleted Items</span> dialog box.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" >.</span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-34509617673900508902008-09-19T15:32:00.000-07:002008-09-19T17:47:42.740-07:00What Happened to the Out of Office Warning in Outlook 2007?The Out of Office message that warned us the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Out of Office auto-replies</span> was on in Outlook 2003, has moved and remains on the screen for only 15 seconds in Outlook 2007. In Outlook 2003, the warning appeared in the middle of the Outlook screen and stayed there until you dismissed it. It was kind of hard to miss, a very in-your-face reminder the Out of Office responder was on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVnYMGTYRxv9t3uoS5yt8lY4aSbC2cMDsDXXzyaE_wCd7oIhmVIXx7ZwjD0hF5oSoTWsCeQCGUXzRnmsCyMSwW2Gkxc4FJlzaqNE19HtvegLEzXRAeohJw2wyf8U44xBYx3updNSjf-KE/s1600-h/fullscreen.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVnYMGTYRxv9t3uoS5yt8lY4aSbC2cMDsDXXzyaE_wCd7oIhmVIXx7ZwjD0hF5oSoTWsCeQCGUXzRnmsCyMSwW2Gkxc4FJlzaqNE19HtvegLEzXRAeohJw2wyf8U44xBYx3updNSjf-KE/s400/fullscreen.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247892423423200146" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">New location of Out of Office warning</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">in Outlook 2007</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_28bokG434c5ZfTQemhKDA7_IW3zFKK_P3Uh9mhmyc-5064iGeCt7GWJErFCzsMJQwnzZS_vs2XlNNlcwRdFgtjD5czn4jNv6elWXuCFsQej3UzIiaxMmZOfUDsffdNa0AgRLUMkKKM/s1600-h/OOOFareon_2.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_28bokG434c5ZfTQemhKDA7_IW3zFKK_P3Uh9mhmyc-5064iGeCt7GWJErFCzsMJQwnzZS_vs2XlNNlcwRdFgtjD5czn4jNv6elWXuCFsQej3UzIiaxMmZOfUDsffdNa0AgRLUMkKKM/s400/OOOFareon_2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247892654149288514" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Close-up of Out of Office warning</span><br /><br />Now, in Outlook 2007, the reminder appears in the lower right corner of the Outlook window when you start it up and then disappears after 15 seconds. The same reminder appears when you first turn on the Out of Office Assistant. But this too disappears after 15 seconds. However, an <span style="font-weight: bold;">Out of Office button</span> remains in the right corner of the Task Bar.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKMKzcwhdMtFWikBbTmqY533MsA_PB2_WKMLPypDcr3-ddv85WenCn7Eg9ITB6vAaTS7o2v7n0ZBdz_0iSbAVqEqT2WZvcmTTiV06uqzEBr3UJwNdhfP-XpEw9qTRcxQfixipaHhi1bI/s1600-h/OOOF_btn_onTaskBar.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKMKzcwhdMtFWikBbTmqY533MsA_PB2_WKMLPypDcr3-ddv85WenCn7Eg9ITB6vAaTS7o2v7n0ZBdz_0iSbAVqEqT2WZvcmTTiV06uqzEBr3UJwNdhfP-XpEw9qTRcxQfixipaHhi1bI/s400/OOOF_btn_onTaskBar.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247892431466091842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Out of Office button on Task Bar</span></span><br /><br />When the button is clicked, it will display a pop-up with two options. The first option, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Out of Office Assistant...</span> will pull up the Out of Office Assistant window. The second option, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Turn off Out of Office auto-replies</span>, does just that. When you turn off the Out of Office Assistant, the button disappears from the Task Bar.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMt84fIKg2mpTa8gVT6-95Ns2xYVhyphenhyphenEmac4560X4GxH1mcNYqjld9QcEqlHDOLMkDmk8AGor3yJUdmdsd7goIKSoAKnqwgyMqsx_DwMxgj-WxaZGU3GPXqF1um_oq7ab2E7jDLtTtMwNQ/s1600-h/ooof_turnoff.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMt84fIKg2mpTa8gVT6-95Ns2xYVhyphenhyphenEmac4560X4GxH1mcNYqjld9QcEqlHDOLMkDmk8AGor3yJUdmdsd7goIKSoAKnqwgyMqsx_DwMxgj-WxaZGU3GPXqF1um_oq7ab2E7jDLtTtMwNQ/s400/ooof_turnoff.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247892432807870866" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Two options appear when Out of Office button is clicked</span></span><br /><br />The Out of Office Assistant can also be turned off through the menu: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tools / Out of Office Assistant...</span> select "<span style="font-weight: bold;">I am currently In the Office</span>" from the Out of Office Assistant window.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLtb9gaMBYXeKFzctRfeGvlLAj8WN8Vsvqsk0flH11BpVAW5LrJ63FZIwJ6zX3GaN1gAN5qGN8qu2VQO8OFQrKmgG6FsFZQoITyuVBwkm8rRNIRUrVLsVeA1DtSLfYkdLuFWxF0C6Ivsw/s1600-h/menu_Tools.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLtb9gaMBYXeKFzctRfeGvlLAj8WN8Vsvqsk0flH11BpVAW5LrJ63FZIwJ6zX3GaN1gAN5qGN8qu2VQO8OFQrKmgG6FsFZQoITyuVBwkm8rRNIRUrVLsVeA1DtSLfYkdLuFWxF0C6Ivsw/s400/menu_Tools.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247892425003012930" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Tools</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> menu in Outlook 2007</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQ0ZJZcJLHGW-KgQPN-cDzXYHhlo7REPjgHyodHfQqr3SZ1HAJVjlIQKt3zl_n8Jj-37OEpEVLVnpm_v9u-wMTvQYRDE_lWDAMZROrO0sTn7UcmYjGaUdpOMzAvpHY3KebUqqMV3BNUI/s1600-h/currently_inoffice.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQ0ZJZcJLHGW-KgQPN-cDzXYHhlo7REPjgHyodHfQqr3SZ1HAJVjlIQKt3zl_n8Jj-37OEpEVLVnpm_v9u-wMTvQYRDE_lWDAMZROrO0sTn7UcmYjGaUdpOMzAvpHY3KebUqqMV3BNUI/s400/currently_inoffice.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247892423632697122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Select "I am currently In the Office" to turn off the Out of Office auto responder.<br /><br /></span></span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-46722935946366474682008-08-25T15:40:00.000-07:002008-08-26T11:32:49.614-07:00The 2007 Microsoft Office Button<span style="font-family:arial;">The user interface has been significantly redesigned in the following 2007 Microsoft Office system programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook (in the composing and reading windows). Instead of menus and toolbars, the new interface uses a "ribbon" to organize commands.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVSpbneQr2P8JU_1NBeiAH-uiFvc0pqaUMldjQErS1IhDzeuRvW7KQ6ryh_GhtVYaSdD4j286IbYLJsRHNTksjeWqrBB-VxBjPf6NcWT6P6J6vVtZiXwyIB9bj1j751TVihLs1yVZqpw/s1600-h/ribbon_wbox.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238603894930836786" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqVSpbneQr2P8JU_1NBeiAH-uiFvc0pqaUMldjQErS1IhDzeuRvW7KQ6ryh_GhtVYaSdD4j286IbYLJsRHNTksjeWqrBB-VxBjPf6NcWT6P6J6vVtZiXwyIB9bj1j751TVihLs1yVZqpw/s400/ribbon_wbox.png" border="0" /><br /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Office Button in the R</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">ibbon (Office </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Fluent User interface) in Word 2007</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdqvGx8rhK0JBmEcyIsKiWj9jPx-Kg8DR9ZH1iqmjdmTmq8a05_afeMERUSP5VLrrlXmtu9QvWBM2H8PdiWY4GVzFI4-3Jy6Ho_chR8mBWXVeMwnJG6h1mwcKrXx6PGG4d6362OcBU3Q/s1600-h/officeBtn.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238591803128100786" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIdqvGx8rhK0JBmEcyIsKiWj9jPx-Kg8DR9ZH1iqmjdmTmq8a05_afeMERUSP5VLrrlXmtu9QvWBM2H8PdiWY4GVzFI4-3Jy6Ho_chR8mBWXVeMwnJG6h1mwcKrXx6PGG4d6362OcBU3Q/s400/officeBtn.png" border="0" /></a> The Microsoft Office Button replaces the File menu and is located in the upper-left corner of the Ribbon in the Microsoft Office programs. This button provides access to functionality common to all Office applications.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />When you click the Microsoft Office Button, you see the same basic commands available in earlier releases of Microsoft Office to open, save, and print your file. The commands available in the Office Button menu are: New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Prepare, Send, Publish and Close.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcK7iqqlKNQhgU7Lf-iBPT28vYYSOlAJkNtFffuRwbQLHU0BsmHNwAE9GQT2SvyF7OoEnMJiC1vr98Cu8PgN1weYBcHT8gcXtbXMP5jEO8XziFkcEC_Ic8QmGHwPZVwvkuan0C8gYb4Lk/s1600-h/save_as_word.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238591806012042098" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcK7iqqlKNQhgU7Lf-iBPT28vYYSOlAJkNtFffuRwbQLHU0BsmHNwAE9GQT2SvyF7OoEnMJiC1vr98Cu8PgN1weYBcHT8gcXtbXMP5jEO8XziFkcEC_Ic8QmGHwPZVwvkuan0C8gYb4Lk/s400/save_as_word.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The new commands, <strong>Prepare</strong>, <strong>Send</strong> and <strong>Publish</strong> give the user more options in finishing a document. <strong>Prepare</strong> will prepare the document for distribution, through such tasks as adding a signature or encryption. <strong>Send</strong> will send the document to another user by email or fax, and <strong>Publish</strong> makes the document publicly available via a document server or a public web space.<br /><br />Commands are listed on the left, and on the right appear recently opened documents. If you can’t see a list of recently opened documents it could be that you have a menu selected on the left. If this is the case, just move the cursor away from that menu to deselect it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2o2XrjrLDfGftDACYd4o2JvXTuPUN5n6qTC8t7ILELZmoVsSJdXPZJsui0DI-wdWtUuRAKYKY1W9a07JUZ3mS_yIk7JI6tx4P-hC85K_JNu64r5FaeUvOmWv8mY3Na5Ca0t6xhF5W3Ak/s1600-h/word_officebtn.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238591811704877474" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2o2XrjrLDfGftDACYd4o2JvXTuPUN5n6qTC8t7ILELZmoVsSJdXPZJsui0DI-wdWtUuRAKYKY1W9a07JUZ3mS_yIk7JI6tx4P-hC85K_JNu64r5FaeUvOmWv8mY3Na5Ca0t6xhF5W3Ak/s400/word_officebtn.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">The <strong>Tools</strong> menu/<strong>Options</strong> command moved to Word Options</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">in Word 2007</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In earlier versions of Microsoft Office, you could set your preferences for specific view, display, and editing settings in the <strong>Options</strong> dialog box (<strong>Tools</strong> menu, <strong>Options</strong> command). As part of the 2007 Office system, the <strong>Tools</strong> menu has been moved so that it is under <strong>Word Options</strong>, <strong>Excel Options</strong>, <strong>PowerPoint Options</strong> or <strong>Access Options</strong> in the lower corner of the Microsoft Office Button window.<br /><br />As you open more documents, the list of recently opened documents grows; the more recent ones appear at the top. As you can imagine, the older ones will eventually disappear from this list. You can however ‘<strong>pin</strong>’ a document to the list so that it always appears there, no matter how big the list gets. Simply click the pushpin to the right of the document name and the file is pinned. To ‘unpin’ it, just click on the pushpin again.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-WTwilA1E7CPHQDoaqvzeX33MfY8zs261rLiu1SM7HrAXkZu_9Gqyg2gtMp4JNOpzgFfKVwgZmoIWAEPs6Hzv06T7b31mqPcLq4arwmrv8vxmTpYq9ksKAVeeDXaJjiTV3jw3HDQHRI/s1600-h/unpin_doc.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238591810532946930" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-WTwilA1E7CPHQDoaqvzeX33MfY8zs261rLiu1SM7HrAXkZu_9Gqyg2gtMp4JNOpzgFfKVwgZmoIWAEPs6Hzv06T7b31mqPcLq4arwmrv8vxmTpYq9ksKAVeeDXaJjiTV3jw3HDQHRI/s400/unpin_doc.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">'Unpinned'</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">document in Recent Documents</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8dzZFXGbR6_5bftyzxENVb30_T2MdrKgoOyXsePdqJ7f0ndw2s6GkOIGMW5KpMxH9TlDsF4urwsfLGgmvCPKagSjpfQZ6G1qddhek662IYfFfQfjzep3-OI7QHs4CHhJSuyiaI9wTgo/s1600-h/pined_doc.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238591808276092274" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8dzZFXGbR6_5bftyzxENVb30_T2MdrKgoOyXsePdqJ7f0ndw2s6GkOIGMW5KpMxH9TlDsF4urwsfLGgmvCPKagSjpfQZ6G1qddhek662IYfFfQfjzep3-OI7QHs4CHhJSuyiaI9wTgo/s400/pined_doc.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Click on pushpin to 'pin' the document in Recent Documents<br /></span><br />In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 when you read or create a message, task, contact, or calendar item, you see the new Microsoft Office Button.</span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-10244864193717084592008-08-01T16:12:00.000-07:002008-08-01T17:06:02.432-07:00Outlook - Got Connection?<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >I have several mailboxes in my Outlook (on Exchange) other than my own email mailbox and suddenly was unable to open them.<span style=""> </span>I got this error:<span style=""> </span>“The set of folders could not be opened.” <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>I thought I was online because I could receive and send email. <span style=""> </span>But no, Outlook was offline and I didn't see it because Clippit was covering up the connection status! Outlook would connect only to upload and download email and then it would go offline.<br /></span><br /><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6Bkh1OT-X4ecFmSBojhgNMEVn5JK7NjWfQhfAeanER_oV8PgfWMKBfGjUtcgIzuEp5miBpOoaV6j6UiCjEQtfu0wZ4AVRav4jrHajc4oSqEHbtj4GO_HNB51-fx_L-RMzjH01UhRSuE/s400/offline.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229691725787537106" border="0" /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br />Connection indicator located in right hand corner displaying Offline status.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6Bkh1OT-X4ecFmSBojhgNMEVn5JK7NjWfQhfAeanER_oV8PgfWMKBfGjUtcgIzuEp5miBpOoaV6j6UiCjEQtfu0wZ4AVRav4jrHajc4oSqEHbtj4GO_HNB51-fx_L-RMzjH01UhRSuE/s1600-h/offline.png"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></a><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6Bkh1OT-X4ecFmSBojhgNMEVn5JK7NjWfQhfAeanER_oV8PgfWMKBfGjUtcgIzuEp5miBpOoaV6j6UiCjEQtfu0wZ4AVRav4jrHajc4oSqEHbtj4GO_HNB51-fx_L-RMzjH01UhRSuE/s1600-h/offline.png"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6PAOYNC-_zIOvX5Onrzq2R2dNFXvdRzM046IhLqPsNdpspOdK7PLo_E86m389DiMtcxyspwCLy-fNdQF4BJMzVfKv-Fu-GsroXyKgOAW1MYNEH48r4AM37IQl5qZzXznix09q4WlQrA/s1600-h/clippit2.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6PAOYNC-_zIOvX5Onrzq2R2dNFXvdRzM046IhLqPsNdpspOdK7PLo_E86m389DiMtcxyspwCLy-fNdQF4BJMzVfKv-Fu-GsroXyKgOAW1MYNEH48r4AM37IQl5qZzXznix09q4WlQrA/s400/clippit2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229694256325244466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Clippit on top of the Connection indicator.</span></span><br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Okay, I admit I should have given Clippit the boot a long time ago. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">And yes I know Clippit was detested among most users as intrusive and annoying. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">I cannot remember when I activated Clippit but I do know I never got irritated enough to turn it off...until now.</span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">How did Outlook become offline if I did not change its setting?<span style=""> </span>I was told that if there is a long enough disruption in the connection to the Exchange server, Outlook could switch to an offline status and remain like that until you reconnect using the connection button in the lower right corner, or by selecting <span style="font-weight: bold;">File / Work Offline</span>. <span style=""> </span>We had a couple of email disruptions the past couple of weeks which might have triggered the Outlook to disconnect from Exchange.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGC2rKH9F9WsA899b1Cz7bNesy4N8_zp90T_8FbauqqprlTd8PgVP64Y814KpMrap0HSeSwv1GnG0LR5Yz7sIWDwe8hkLWxAp6qwjan_ZVVhJTidEDDyNx-CiO2RV6aEYZ8wGbERhEyM/s1600-h/File_offline.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGC2rKH9F9WsA899b1Cz7bNesy4N8_zp90T_8FbauqqprlTd8PgVP64Y814KpMrap0HSeSwv1GnG0LR5Yz7sIWDwe8hkLWxAp6qwjan_ZVVhJTidEDDyNx-CiO2RV6aEYZ8wGbERhEyM/s400/File_offline.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229697410351245698" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMWWEssUWp6da4in7fqMHySp2r8Rw2ItneG6Sj5vkCiWK9SdqoXWbHhwYlhnae5kLWzu99_qJFe5vwkiq8IPpTpkb6k0_8WQnAyj6Sdp_wUv5-OucZFEP94CKePeiS17phb6qQhJuCfE/s1600-h/file_workoffline_b.png"><br /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Work Offline</span> to change connection<br />status and work online.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">So when I clicked the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Work Offline</span> command, the check mark disappeared (which means it was deselected) and Outlook quickly connected to the Exchange server. My other mailboxes were accessible, and all was well again</span>.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHUToDoj854_ICMaF3Z1wdDsD-APTI_AaSL71dkcxpU8vUuRYMs8aKsNRcCAw0Dn1AznzZ2eWrizshQmhzPnBPXyJwhMxUoS0CfPSbRnW5v20sZIQ9-wfTPEiOj01xW-kcuWkmoRRSmc/s1600-h/connected_b.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHUToDoj854_ICMaF3Z1wdDsD-APTI_AaSL71dkcxpU8vUuRYMs8aKsNRcCAw0Dn1AznzZ2eWrizshQmhzPnBPXyJwhMxUoS0CfPSbRnW5v20sZIQ9-wfTPEiOj01xW-kcuWkmoRRSmc/s400/connected_b.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229691718441797778" border="0" /><br /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Connection indicator displaying online status.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></p>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-64893516596873247542008-07-25T16:53:00.000-07:002008-07-25T17:12:06.098-07:00Flag Email for Follow-up in Outlook<span style="font-family:arial;">Assign flags to your email messages in Outlook to remind yourself to follow up on an issue. You can also use flags to categorize messages in your inbox. There are six colors - red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and purple - that can be used to mean different things. Message flags are displayed in the last column of the Inbox view. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlRjLf-VdHt6zm9AWbMZqTz8H6Lgi1W3BM61x-ovdUiOnEkDdRT0Avij7My8KwWkLE9sBMyQjKhjQrg9GlqroFnM2WgTvEScQQu_70K5-w8kvT0zwSdjimwwDh9gT9K17Zj_ePmijVp7s/s1600-h/flag_messages.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227107359072294146" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlRjLf-VdHt6zm9AWbMZqTz8H6Lgi1W3BM61x-ovdUiOnEkDdRT0Avij7My8KwWkLE9sBMyQjKhjQrg9GlqroFnM2WgTvEScQQu_70K5-w8kvT0zwSdjimwwDh9gT9K17Zj_ePmijVp7s/s400/flag_messages.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Flag icons are displayed on the right side of each message.<br />The flag drop-down menu appears when icon is right-clicked.</span><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">You can use message flags to do the following:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;">To flag a message with a particular color, right-click the flag that corresponds to the message and then select the flag color.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;">To flag a message as complete, right-click the message, and then click <strong>Flag Complete</strong>.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;">To sort your messages by color, click the flag column heading.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;">To clear a flag from a message, right-click the mesage, and then click <strong>Clear Flag</strong>.</span><br /></li></ul>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-61143061781696569212008-07-08T17:02:00.000-07:002008-07-09T14:04:38.048-07:00Switch Excel Columns to Rows<span style="font-family:arial;">Have you ever wanted to change a column of data into a row in Excel?</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Here's how you do it:</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1. Open the spreadsheet you need to change.<br />2. Click the first cell of your data range such as D1 (Third Quarter in figure 1).<br />3. Shift-click the last cell of the range. Your selection should highlight.<br />4. Right click and select <strong>Copy</strong> from the right-click context menu (figure 1). Or go to the <strong>Edit </strong>menu and select <strong>Copy</strong>.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6mzBW-q_5CDzjV7H0MaDfh9e3DfZZukTp7NIs1MmYiD1ljSYM9i6nJgdwBRPxsLaMsVbnxLqsF0m1zbhj7rVnLVAIYu6913Rn81SppvxEg5rLUh975AhWi-T_Jvh7dCnXLrnzNEKd4M/s1600-h/1_select_data.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220798537548016466" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6mzBW-q_5CDzjV7H0MaDfh9e3DfZZukTp7NIs1MmYiD1ljSYM9i6nJgdwBRPxsLaMsVbnxLqsF0m1zbhj7rVnLVAIYu6913Rn81SppvxEg5rLUh975AhWi-T_Jvh7dCnXLrnzNEKd4M/s320/1_select_data.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">figure 1</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">5. Click on the Cell you want to paste the range of data. We will use <strong>A7</strong>.<br />6. Right click cell A7. From the Right-click context menu, select <strong>Paste Special...</strong> (figure 2).<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVe68KGh9TzaLK33A_Y8BYUQzNQl_2dJsUvN7bOPusQONCLo3Eqe709KLgakKfx743l0Fco9WvApZpYxyC1VHlBdG67ganJ8mR85kqzV8Y3s_V9b0XI8a2ed8BpvYBq74dv53wNr28kwc/s1600-h/2_pasteSpecial.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220798539601023314" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVe68KGh9TzaLK33A_Y8BYUQzNQl_2dJsUvN7bOPusQONCLo3Eqe709KLgakKfx743l0Fco9WvApZpYxyC1VHlBdG67ganJ8mR85kqzV8Y3s_V9b0XI8a2ed8BpvYBq74dv53wNr28kwc/s320/2_pasteSpecial.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">figure 2<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">7. The <strong>Paste Special</strong> dialog should appear (figure 3).</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">8. Click the checkbox for <strong>Transpose</strong>.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhafTZ5OKsEZy68JccvBn6zmhTRK50BLTGzMOI_hJCas6KsvtWnFh5vhbi9HqyCrwq72Ay7fWisyNAUQQkUedrzJ8pegIqQyHIvDHoxCd9p_GMjjJP1j4QJ2MJMiQB5buGg66Wc-eNil_k/s1600-h/3_transpose.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220798540596828786" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhafTZ5OKsEZy68JccvBn6zmhTRK50BLTGzMOI_hJCas6KsvtWnFh5vhbi9HqyCrwq72Ay7fWisyNAUQQkUedrzJ8pegIqQyHIvDHoxCd9p_GMjjJP1j4QJ2MJMiQB5buGg66Wc-eNil_k/s320/3_transpose.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">figure 3</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">9. <span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span>Click <strong>OK</strong>.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">10. Your data from D1:D5 is now displayed in Row(A7:E7) (figure 4).</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoy2mGJut32EQOCdzJVLpJebigaYh0UIvke9ef30Ovk6GC1Cn55fNTUsqadxYjZtE8ziZXul9OLI0d8warRBc-I-74x7DLUygLZT2B8FiJ3oFcd7cOOF5illGtP8IsBI4zD-JM0eL4qms/s1600-h/4_pasted.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220798543521179618" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoy2mGJut32EQOCdzJVLpJebigaYh0UIvke9ef30Ovk6GC1Cn55fNTUsqadxYjZtE8ziZXul9OLI0d8warRBc-I-74x7DLUygLZT2B8FiJ3oFcd7cOOF5illGtP8IsBI4zD-JM0eL4qms/s320/4_pasted.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">figure 4</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">You can go from columns to rows, or rows to columns using the same procedure.<br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-14336538257565297592008-06-27T16:59:00.000-07:002008-06-30T13:47:32.387-07:00Lines Under Text Field Forms in Word 2003<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I've received many requests for assistance on Microsoft Word forms. By the way, I recommend using Acrobat 8.0 </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Professional</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> for forms, but for those of you using Word - this week's tip is for you. You will learn how to create a text field form in Word with a line under it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If you want to skip the following instructions and just watch the tutorial as a flash movie, go to:</span></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://www.scripps.edu/hr/training/forms_lines.html">http://www.scripps.edu/hr/training/forms_lines.html</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:85%;" >.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">My sample document is a partially completed Word 2003 document with some form fields pictured below.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhagmc8CbD5JLY_z5faYlEkI_5hbfl6oEskL0bWbRFZIft_5oyyxueXDnH9bDEFu-AHycaWcBoEo3jfUmj61jSoQDdROGFYp1l-1H1GSY1CCSa_bA7IqK7A_9P3_Q4UA2Jzhbmi_PLMohs/s1600-h/1_word_doc.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216720460751320722" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhagmc8CbD5JLY_z5faYlEkI_5hbfl6oEskL0bWbRFZIft_5oyyxueXDnH9bDEFu-AHycaWcBoEo3jfUmj61jSoQDdROGFYp1l-1H1GSY1CCSa_bA7IqK7A_9P3_Q4UA2Jzhbmi_PLMohs/s400/1_word_doc.png" border="0" /><br /></a><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Unfinished Word form<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">We are going to add a text field form with a line under it by <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Email Address</span>.<br /></span></span><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Click <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">View</span> in the Menu<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Click <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Toolbars</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Click <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Forms</span> on the drop-down menu from Toolbars</span></li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCmZXMrHcryNJpS6RpTECw6T79B0W2NNfWd8-EAtFbcijBvaWV5-kZxJCkn8kOzHQoFiy2eea2j497trNak8b6LgH0meUfGMyWGoavP9ZjOuXTequ3i83cwwC5BrBo6MkyLWp5Xp9TxV4/s1600-h/2_select_formsToolbar.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722046237277346" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCmZXMrHcryNJpS6RpTECw6T79B0W2NNfWd8-EAtFbcijBvaWV5-kZxJCkn8kOzHQoFiy2eea2j497trNak8b6LgH0meUfGMyWGoavP9ZjOuXTequ3i83cwwC5BrBo6MkyLWp5Xp9TxV4/s320/2_select_formsToolbar.png" border="0" /></a> <ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">The <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Forms</span> toolbar appears</span></li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUTWEziv9ONcQbOLUG26-CRyQcz9AQfzK4C89LxaR19qzdXBh8mouSoIgzLIjcTsbNXbwHQdWhDW8rfFcIe9OZHBbuIMVWfWQAFtc6arKYPuBdw2BRzdzbSrnkav2x2uM1WsXqjN4r28/s1600-h/3_formsToolbar.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722273012241314" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUTWEziv9ONcQbOLUG26-CRyQcz9AQfzK4C89LxaR19qzdXBh8mouSoIgzLIjcTsbNXbwHQdWhDW8rfFcIe9OZHBbuIMVWfWQAFtc6arKYPuBdw2BRzdzbSrnkav2x2uM1WsXqjN4r28/s320/3_formsToolbar.png" border="0" /></a> <ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Place your cursor where you want your form field and click once.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Then go up to the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Forms </span>toolbar and click the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Text Form Field</span> button (first button [<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">ab</span>] in the Forms toolbar).<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">A text form field appears shaded in – you can clear the grey color by clicking on the orange button with an “a” on it on the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Forms</span> toolbar. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Click the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Frame</span> button on the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Forms</span> toolbar.</span></li></ul><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSGsmsHlHFUk33eSBetpyl1gWnGsUnruWeoeHxbLQUAPwADH5EMXX7S3TLXsl6PAJeaG7HhDtkOaGmDP8XaTRcwzLLw4t0JUdGkX7gsLd6CeAWMzG0K5Z0T_0zMbszb7BHrACiQOX0WI/s1600-h/4_clickframe_btn.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722767957213890" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSGsmsHlHFUk33eSBetpyl1gWnGsUnruWeoeHxbLQUAPwADH5EMXX7S3TLXsl6PAJeaG7HhDtkOaGmDP8XaTRcwzLLw4t0JUdGkX7gsLd6CeAWMzG0K5Z0T_0zMbszb7BHrACiQOX0WI/s320/4_clickframe_btn.png" border="0" /></a> <ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">The text form field is now enclosed in a frame and might have jumped to a different location on your document<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Drag it back into place<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Size it by clicking and dragging the border handles that appear as small squares around the frame</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">After it is the size you want, right click the frame<br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span><br /></span></li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv89_YeX80dy_P2in_kpdi6i4tyyCohsFLwqbcbKoeK0dCWUAWE1QUDjzn4DRSDWOtnV5q2sAbYN6_emVYEWRTA34RbPPDquFgM-hQWcyF3ZE-wmODvSLS8PlYa4t3YnDIiFOBpBIg694/s1600-h/5_rightclick_brdr.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722770141237346" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv89_YeX80dy_P2in_kpdi6i4tyyCohsFLwqbcbKoeK0dCWUAWE1QUDjzn4DRSDWOtnV5q2sAbYN6_emVYEWRTA34RbPPDquFgM-hQWcyF3ZE-wmODvSLS8PlYa4t3YnDIiFOBpBIg694/s320/5_rightclick_brdr.png" border="0" /><br /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv89_YeX80dy_P2in_kpdi6i4tyyCohsFLwqbcbKoeK0dCWUAWE1QUDjzn4DRSDWOtnV5q2sAbYN6_emVYEWRTA34RbPPDquFgM-hQWcyF3ZE-wmODvSLS8PlYa4t3YnDIiFOBpBIg694/s1600-h/5_rightclick_brdr.png"><br /></a><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Select <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Borders and Shading…</span> from the drop-down menu<br /><br /></span></li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggazBn4BFFNNXKNsbIkPgh6DKtkBD73rxgZRbFWzTu1hxS2iWqWWmnv_BVsztyjSIE44Bo5mfhT1ciRY_tK5CAKpQ4eJPAfD2V9CuHL_GY3mGMebLKtDo_uMgO68T8qem-qYALlqOLlNY/s1600-h/6_select_brdrs_nmenus.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722772346549458" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggazBn4BFFNNXKNsbIkPgh6DKtkBD73rxgZRbFWzTu1hxS2iWqWWmnv_BVsztyjSIE44Bo5mfhT1ciRY_tK5CAKpQ4eJPAfD2V9CuHL_GY3mGMebLKtDo_uMgO68T8qem-qYALlqOLlNY/s320/6_select_brdrs_nmenus.png" border="0" /><br /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">The <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Borders </span>tab should be open by default when the<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Borders and Shading</span> dialog window opens<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Click the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Top Border</span> button in the Preview section (on the right) in the Borders tab to get rid of it.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Next Click the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Left</span> and <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Right Border</span> buttons to get rid of that part of the border.<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span></li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jlEXdwFTX1M1nVr9ERTl1SVJ1823bxZCdGsV9ND3Ua9ZZIuxuIiU_vSjngCZsL5LV7U9x4S0WFA5OeMMOwKQVj6KSC0bGO7HhA2wH8Sq36_kUD6f6nKRs4vlVu1QegnlNQGq-iReKWE/s1600-h/7_clicktopbrdr_btn.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722771214655650" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jlEXdwFTX1M1nVr9ERTl1SVJ1823bxZCdGsV9ND3Ua9ZZIuxuIiU_vSjngCZsL5LV7U9x4S0WFA5OeMMOwKQVj6KSC0bGO7HhA2wH8Sq36_kUD6f6nKRs4vlVu1QegnlNQGq-iReKWE/s320/7_clicktopbrdr_btn.png" border="0" /></a> <ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Now the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Preview</span> window should display the bottom of the frame only.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Click <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">OK</span> to close the Borders and Shading window.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">The remaining frame line will be the line under the text field form.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Click away from the frame to deselect it.<br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfqnsBXqdEvJg8s2P77DFu18WOJxqDIK_kx7gEl7orBlOVT0xzQ3pZ3tkk8CCdaZrge2q1kzhsQ3jEp_-e6zQdLLr_YaZkN99b7ZqvqSBqM-XgTl0s38sGQkAE_bOk-61LzueClibc9U/s1600-h/8_clickaway_fromframe.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216722773572149458" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfqnsBXqdEvJg8s2P77DFu18WOJxqDIK_kx7gEl7orBlOVT0xzQ3pZ3tkk8CCdaZrge2q1kzhsQ3jEp_-e6zQdLLr_YaZkN99b7ZqvqSBqM-XgTl0s38sGQkAE_bOk-61LzueClibc9U/s320/8_clickaway_fromframe.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfqnsBXqdEvJg8s2P77DFu18WOJxqDIK_kx7gEl7orBlOVT0xzQ3pZ3tkk8CCdaZrge2q1kzhsQ3jEp_-e6zQdLLr_YaZkN99b7ZqvqSBqM-XgTl0s38sGQkAE_bOk-61LzueClibc9U/s1600-h/8_clickaway_fromframe.png"><br /></a></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">The text field form now has a line under it that will stay with the form.<br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><br /></li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWtEKjb2ANgVuqrz-tkq2wwFd7GteiwFnObzmlm-955H1w5IMn6RQUAgEYa8TE0D36eAcyDCwuHgSnO68JOSRlPWquLDWAvY7OpMzYwkHgHobUm1xfSvGAgyOwKZnZ0KlV1MlpapNd1Y/s1600-h/9_formwline_done.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216724633871697330" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFWtEKjb2ANgVuqrz-tkq2wwFd7GteiwFnObzmlm-955H1w5IMn6RQUAgEYa8TE0D36eAcyDCwuHgSnO68JOSRlPWquLDWAvY7OpMzYwkHgHobUm1xfSvGAgyOwKZnZ0KlV1MlpapNd1Y/s320/9_formwline_done.png" border="0" /></a> <ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Finally to activate the form fields you need to protect the document: by selecting <b>Tools </b>on the menu, then <b>Protect Document</b>. In the Protect Document task pane under <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">2. Editing Restrictions</span>, check “Allow only this type of editing in the document;” and select <b>Filling in forms</b> from the drop-down. Then click the “<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Yes, Start Enforcing Protection</span>” button and choose a password if you want one.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>If you don’t want a password, just click <b>OK</b>.<br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255);font-size:78%;" >.</span></span><br /></li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr2tnnUlIv-rVVVjHneK3oqpIyDzjiStkaQ45qxWASjgD5tOPrPlyaVZ6L2oeM1mWhPYSU_OyaOibaIfo2kG8E2qyNDdemVss834kLyWNgsJEIDfYnInvGAq7b0b12Z7M-WYGkcOGLD8/s1600-h/10_protect_doc.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216724642936022242" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr2tnnUlIv-rVVVjHneK3oqpIyDzjiStkaQ45qxWASjgD5tOPrPlyaVZ6L2oeM1mWhPYSU_OyaOibaIfo2kG8E2qyNDdemVss834kLyWNgsJEIDfYnInvGAq7b0b12Z7M-WYGkcOGLD8/s320/10_protect_doc.png" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Protect Document</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Task Pane</span> that will pop up on the right side of your document.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglr2tnnUlIv-rVVVjHneK3oqpIyDzjiStkaQ45qxWASjgD5tOPrPlyaVZ6L2oeM1mWhPYSU_OyaOibaIfo2kG8E2qyNDdemVss834kLyWNgsJEIDfYnInvGAq7b0b12Z7M-WYGkcOGLD8/s1600-h/10_protect_doc.png"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Of course there are other settings from which to choose in the Protect Document task pane but your form could be ready to distribute as is.<br /><br />A good review of this tutorial is to watch the movie if you haven't already: </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://www.scripps.edu/hr/training/forms_lines.html">http://www.scripps.edu/hr/training/forms_lines.html<br /><br /></a></span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-39282396892169503722008-06-20T11:09:00.000-07:002008-06-20T14:02:04.667-07:00Creating PDFs from Web Pages in Acrobat 8.0<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Did you know that Acrobat can convert a whole website into a PDF? This is a very nifty feature of Acrobat 8.0.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />You may have known that you can easily download a page from a</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > Web site using the PDFMaker that installs in Internet Explorer, but you can also down</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >load a website or part of a website from within Acrobat and control its co</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >ntent and how it is displayed in the resulting PDF file (links and all).</span><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip92cLUVblQadG6yJ3UY8TVewhL7Ng1DxIYXS_GYvQJFq969iota7rZxCT2mi0vKo0e-reAH8pufq7Pq77iH65AruyPSMycotf1dvmGt5G9HIQW3QbglCwwKrz5bis8KhELCpSxIadeVI/s1600-h/PDFMaker_inIE.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip92cLUVblQadG6yJ3UY8TVewhL7Ng1DxIYXS_GYvQJFq969iota7rZxCT2mi0vKo0e-reAH8pufq7Pq77iH65AruyPSMycotf1dvmGt5G9HIQW3QbglCwwKrz5bis8KhELCpSxIadeVI/s320/PDFMaker_inIE.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214028252311769954" border="0" /><br /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> PDFMaker in Internet Explorer</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Here's how you do it:<br /><br />Click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create PDF</span> task button and click <span style="font-weight: bold;">From Web Page...</span>, or choose File > Create PDF > From Web Page to open the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create PDF from Web Page</span> dialog.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktx1lfUwTxsNX65brfNrI6ViVkyuH2MsDPHPJFXNWQYTfcsUSsIUApdYRsOh3lYAsPXXR-DXR1hHK0ozGmmjnSiPelueQmMx7cgJyAwTgoGM5qKffxTP2Haaln3RsODJ7Pe1VvSWCJ7M/s1600-h/createPDFmenu.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktx1lfUwTxsNX65brfNrI6ViVkyuH2MsDPHPJFXNWQYTfcsUSsIUApdYRsOh3lYAsPXXR-DXR1hHK0ozGmmjnSiPelueQmMx7cgJyAwTgoGM5qKffxTP2Haaln3RsODJ7Pe1VvSWCJ7M/s320/createPDFmenu.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214031919402492898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> Create PDF task button<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Specify the web page location (URL) and define the settings for converting a Web page to PDF in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create PDF from Web Page</span> dialog box (below).</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WjZh-qtnC0oucjsLwaiyZXcO-9nbauvBXVHnn9mJVvDyJuOF-Ba1v2CNRBdkzXgpxNeB4z1ud8jSedlSbo1-TBaMLUiWitAFMgt0x9pKIXyJDSaxls-UE3Ge1Z9qGHQ0TcrbaDsXvQM/s1600-h/createPDFbox_02.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WjZh-qtnC0oucjsLwaiyZXcO-9nbauvBXVHnn9mJVvDyJuOF-Ba1v2CNRBdkzXgpxNeB4z1ud8jSedlSbo1-TBaMLUiWitAFMgt0x9pKIXyJDSaxls-UE3Ge1Z9qGHQ0TcrbaDsXvQM/s320/createPDFbox_02.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214031707729707090" border="0" /><br /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> Create PDF from Web Page dialog box</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Access the file you want to convert in one of three ways, depending on the location and type of file. You can type the <span style="font-weight: bold;">URL</span> for the file if it’s on the Internet, click the arrow to the right of the right of the URL field to work with Web files that have been opened previously in Acrobat, or click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Browse</span> to open the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Select File to Open</span> dialog to locate a file that’s on a local disk.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Under <span style="font-weight: bold;">Settings</span> in the Create PDF from Web Page dialog box:<br /></span></p><ul><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Enter the number of levels you want to include, or select <span style="font-weight: bold;">Get Entire Site</span> to include all levels form the website.</span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stay On Same Path</span> - Downloads only web pages subordinate to the specified URL.</span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stay on Same Server</span> - Downloads only web pages stored on the same server.<br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create</span> to start the conversion process.<span style=""> </span>The Download Status dialog shows you the number of connections active in the downloaded material, as well as the names, sizes, and locations of the files.<span style=""> </span>When the download is complete, Acrobat displays the new PDF file in the Document pane and adds a document structure to the Bookmarks tab.<span style=""> </span>Choose <span style="font-weight: bold;">File > Save</span> to save the converted Web pages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMD_FeND4OFwKYbl3XMN0IBEMI7SOTkwmFmCk20WtHC-zzS_pgdQN67aUOqyfZLybexCaf8XnJPCoxwbk6S3h6p2F0byilbjsWfeAY-ab48LRYQgxudcwEsrNrdNeSZKvJAe1g-3cN3E/s1600-h/thepage.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMD_FeND4OFwKYbl3XMN0IBEMI7SOTkwmFmCk20WtHC-zzS_pgdQN67aUOqyfZLybexCaf8XnJPCoxwbk6S3h6p2F0byilbjsWfeAY-ab48LRYQgxudcwEsrNrdNeSZKvJAe1g-3cN3E/s400/thepage.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214041453405765074" border="0" /><br /></a><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" > PDF file in the Document pane and document structure in the Bookmarks tab</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMD_FeND4OFwKYbl3XMN0IBEMI7SOTkwmFmCk20WtHC-zzS_pgdQN67aUOqyfZLybexCaf8XnJPCoxwbk6S3h6p2F0byilbjsWfeAY-ab48LRYQgxudcwEsrNrdNeSZKvJAe1g-3cN3E/s1600-h/thepage.png"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >As you scroll through the document, notice that both a header and footer are added to the page.<span style=""> </span>The header is the Web page’s name; the footer contains the URL for the page, the number of pages, and the download date and time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-XcHRLLZePaB8m554zIY71WX-fg07NrmV5cF3Y4U8SOS0VZM8aNUgG_2Z3mrWV9cRCW7Ql62IpwpsMhWlQO-JERaMpyiLroXykepYw54w8pnsLzZW0EYCnv-Ta35Y3nbyPf7iXRA5Wg/s1600-h/header_footer.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-XcHRLLZePaB8m554zIY71WX-fg07NrmV5cF3Y4U8SOS0VZM8aNUgG_2Z3mrWV9cRCW7Ql62IpwpsMhWlQO-JERaMpyiLroXykepYw54w8pnsLzZW0EYCnv-Ta35Y3nbyPf7iXRA5Wg/s320/header_footer.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214040914273907202" border="0" /><br /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Headers and footers are added in the PDF for each web page</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-XcHRLLZePaB8m554zIY71WX-fg07NrmV5cF3Y4U8SOS0VZM8aNUgG_2Z3mrWV9cRCW7Ql62IpwpsMhWlQO-JERaMpyiLroXykepYw54w8pnsLzZW0EYCnv-Ta35Y3nbyPf7iXRA5Wg/s1600-h/header_footer.png"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-11842497131614602192008-06-10T15:07:00.000-07:002008-06-10T16:34:05.975-07:00Creating Forms Automatically in Acrobat 8<span style="font-family:arial;">One of the coolest new features in Acrobat 8 Professional is the ablility to create a form from a document using artificial intelligence to trcognize fields automatically. Here's how it works:<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1) Open the document in Acrobat 8 Professional – the form can be a PDF version of a document created in Word, InDesign, Excel, Photoshop, or even an a scanned paper document.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />2) Choose Forms > Run Form Field Recognition. Acrobat processes the document and displays several features in the program window:</span><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipB5CxMexPZ9Ibnk3-bXVhJPCZLNgxZ0erY4Nyo4pqdDASkdWKbU0vVOZfVEk9xPulHTx7JnbJ60arXUY_yA-TJ8okMNV4_cSDzjkBB74r5G_IzutU7u0Jpw73uDs3l5MPk4n4Oy1pegI/s1600-h/run_form_field_recogntion.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210378934402585634" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipB5CxMexPZ9Ibnk3-bXVhJPCZLNgxZ0erY4Nyo4pqdDASkdWKbU0vVOZfVEk9xPulHTx7JnbJ60arXUY_yA-TJ8okMNV4_cSDzjkBB74r5G_IzutU7u0Jpw73uDs3l5MPk4n4Oy1pegI/s320/run_form_field_recogntion.png" border="0" /></a></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">The Document Message Bar, which shows the basic form information; click Highlight Fields to toggle the field background color on or off.</span></li></ul><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmonS1tL20S5pmUwi2pV1vOw1mhIKkodnAfxUp-jv4aog-NwypW15B0_nLheRaLcG0mGeAnv25f2AwM9q9IiWKCJkrD9SRRqnYXqzF6yIRLi1kRzlbKLNYcbRoRF2q0JHTsFcJPHZ29M/s1600-h/highlight_fields.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210383125518276610" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmonS1tL20S5pmUwi2pV1vOw1mhIKkodnAfxUp-jv4aog-NwypW15B0_nLheRaLcG0mGeAnv25f2AwM9q9IiWKCJkrD9SRRqnYXqzF6yIRLi1kRzlbKLNYcbRoRF2q0JHTsFcJPHZ29M/s320/highlight_fields.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Highlight Fields icon</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">The new fields added to the form are highlighted. </span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">The Detect Form Fields Report lists the identified fields; repair hints open in the Recognition Report panel.</span></li></ul><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2-UXlDTR1wRpsG5I1tuAh_xd404fBLr7AvD10KSwNMyFVRzAcAkmZDYYZNqX2x9biN6XFAOlK0OOiCbU2wApFcdmJtqC_Latqqx50rlgplDX_wnc5WJxe7b146tNHZVfh5J13QOJXsA/s1600-h/detectedformfields.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210379714419455090" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2-UXlDTR1wRpsG5I1tuAh_xd404fBLr7AvD10KSwNMyFVRzAcAkmZDYYZNqX2x9biN6XFAOlK0OOiCbU2wApFcdmJtqC_Latqqx50rlgplDX_wnc5WJxe7b146tNHZVfh5J13QOJXsA/s320/detectedformfields.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Recognition Report</span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">The report can be toggled open and closed by clicking the Recognition Report panel’s icon. The panel displays in the Navigation pane automatically.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:arial;">3) Choose View > Navigation Panels > Fields to open the Fields panel (Figure below). The fields detected on the form are listed in alphabetical order.<br /></p></span><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6CRvcu9WuHmevozDsUD5vkjzPHB8X3HvvyhJHCHAyugFb06fRL9suv4oGrkacq8oBEGuFkfo_L4PloT9h08g0tM_hnykhBet9JfzqA0Ds8JtFT0a9601xPy2csf7TIEEdY1dps-oYA70/s1600-h/fieldspanel_dropdown2.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210380214376560482" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6CRvcu9WuHmevozDsUD5vkjzPHB8X3HvvyhJHCHAyugFb06fRL9suv4oGrkacq8oBEGuFkfo_L4PloT9h08g0tM_hnykhBet9JfzqA0Ds8JtFT0a9601xPy2csf7TIEEdY1dps-oYA70/s320/fieldspanel_dropdown2.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">To open the Fields panel </span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">4) The panel may be docked in the Navigation pane, or tabbed with other panels. To read both the Recognition Report and the Fields panel, drag the Field panel icon (Figure below) right to detach it from the Navigation pane.</span></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUOiwxoWmZxSRPPbysbYj_p99Vh0NbVUD0w3wrm8WHLOeEawt_aXoP9L9DWTdA8xp6fusGD-fzhRkB236Y5V2hDaDsIwv1cviNHmCc1ZcQvF03lSZUHMEktcMbyVJ5yl2V_7P70CHhjE/s1600-h/fieldspanel_window.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210380477576466594" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUOiwxoWmZxSRPPbysbYj_p99Vh0NbVUD0w3wrm8WHLOeEawt_aXoP9L9DWTdA8xp6fusGD-fzhRkB236Y5V2hDaDsIwv1cviNHmCc1ZcQvF03lSZUHMEktcMbyVJ5yl2V_7P70CHhjE/s320/fieldspanel_window.png" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Fields panel</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">5) Start making corrections in the form. In the sample form, section headings are defined as Text Box fields, for example, instead of being static text. You can: </span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Select a field and delete it.</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Double-click a field in the panel to open its Properties dialog and customize the settings.</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Add fields as required for your project.</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Choose “Edit form in Acrobat” from the Options menu in the Fields panel to activate the Forms toolbar and the fields on the form. </span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:arial;">To change the tabbing order, save and close the form. Then open the form in Adobe LiveCycle Designer and revise the tabbing order.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">The Form Field Recognition feature is the most helpful when used on basic forms created in Word. It can be a real time saver when used with simple forms.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">However if you have a lot of graphics or a complex layout, you might want to save the original document as a PDF and then open it in Adobe LiveCycle Designer (comes bundled with Acrobat Professional 8.0) to create the interactive form elements.</span></p>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-32097767169555907782008-05-29T17:59:00.000-07:002008-05-29T18:53:54.976-07:00Save PowerPoint Slides as ImagesMany people use PowerPoint to compose images because they are familiar with PowerPoint and due to time constraints, find it's more efficient to use instead of imaging software such as Photoshop.<br /><br />After composing images in PowerPoint you may want to export the slides as images for use in other documents like Microsoft Word or Acrobat.<br /><br />Here's how to export PowerPoint slides as images:<br /><br />1) Open the PowerPoint presentation that contains the slides you want to export as images<br /><br />2) Select <strong>Save As...</strong> from the <strong>File</strong> menu in PowerPoint<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWwSaLx-WtgoboA02nuP9w_U1Gy_DFZG1sg1emAuas4AlwQIIT4LFpPBa3xc1QgcL72yHG57gsYfKxFDuu7KifKHXZ-kU8mzxFPM0l2u9cZVLFGDMj6Znyfb1sJBbe0fUXW5I5yrXJa0/s1600-h/Menu_saveas.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205971676465822882" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWwSaLx-WtgoboA02nuP9w_U1Gy_DFZG1sg1emAuas4AlwQIIT4LFpPBa3xc1QgcL72yHG57gsYfKxFDuu7KifKHXZ-kU8mzxFPM0l2u9cZVLFGDMj6Znyfb1sJBbe0fUXW5I5yrXJa0/s320/Menu_saveas.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />3) Use the <strong>Save as type:</strong> drop down menu to select either <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">PNG</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">BMP</span> files for documents that will eventually be printed. You can use the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">JPEG</span> format for images that will be displayed on monitors, video projectors or for web use.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QbM_LBar45phUikoWyzONlB05icZOWcMtRdn869m4bS59y0BLM3K21_rygJIqwaRmHwsc1xFwWuSftdgPOsHHcFQpN-mdmSxOPxLpfDxtFAFMsYlu4lMFuEE9yzwyICgeWpsPPRK52c/s1600-h/saveas_window.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205980279285316834" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QbM_LBar45phUikoWyzONlB05icZOWcMtRdn869m4bS59y0BLM3K21_rygJIqwaRmHwsc1xFwWuSftdgPOsHHcFQpN-mdmSxOPxLpfDxtFAFMsYlu4lMFuEE9yzwyICgeWpsPPRK52c/s400/saveas_window.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>NOTE:</strong><br />As noted in the above graphic, a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">PNG</span> file will be about one fourth the size of a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">BMP</span> file and will provide a print worthy resolution. So if you are concerned about the overall size of your document, a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">PNG</span> file might be the way to go.<br /><br />A <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">BMP</span> file usually is saved at 300 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">dpi</span> (Dots Per Inch) by default and therefore is a high quality or high resolution graphic and will provide good print images.<br /><br />When saving Word documents as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">PDF's</span>, the amount and file size of the images in the Word document will affect the size of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">PDF</span> document.<br /><br />4) After you select a file format, you will get a pop-up window that asks if you want <strong>Every Slide</strong> in the presentation or only the <strong>Current Slide</strong> to be exported as the file format you selected in the <strong>Save as type:</strong> drop-down menu in the <strong>Save As</strong> window.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBWyGO9OZwTcUfod38aAoB-89qwvRca8Jz6-p-WKV4lP7EoEEr1RpkigKNwEIJHI2KD9nwEJqrxdc3sq2CbEEyz1gPzV6ntPXwf0p5Tf6nApkyPsNhixPP2wltd2I2vgWaZacWGD2aSd4/s1600-h/save_everySlide.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205975383022599362" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBWyGO9OZwTcUfod38aAoB-89qwvRca8Jz6-p-WKV4lP7EoEEr1RpkigKNwEIJHI2KD9nwEJqrxdc3sq2CbEEyz1gPzV6ntPXwf0p5Tf6nApkyPsNhixPP2wltd2I2vgWaZacWGD2aSd4/s320/save_everySlide.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />5) If you select <strong>Every Slide</strong>, all the slides in the presentation will be saved as the chosen file type and exported to a location whose path will be noted in the next window. (below) The default location is in the same folder as your presentation. PowerPoint will make a separate folder for the images when you select the <strong>Every Slide </strong>option. If you save the <strong>Current Slide Only</strong>, only that one slide will be saved in your folder that houses your presentation.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATQOuEp7nqp8u6ybQp4_bwU-Rh1N2IVezb-MXaGs8KCFWk3oDs1SZxek17zayC5oRZ63eSYtupEFeJ8Z0Nt4v2B-lJhP-3lzD_gsp7W8YnZnt9WPED1Vipxem_oON62DClRTrn6JS_oc/s1600-h/file_path.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205976246311025874" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATQOuEp7nqp8u6ybQp4_bwU-Rh1N2IVezb-MXaGs8KCFWk3oDs1SZxek17zayC5oRZ63eSYtupEFeJ8Z0Nt4v2B-lJhP-3lzD_gsp7W8YnZnt9WPED1Vipxem_oON62DClRTrn6JS_oc/s320/file_path.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />6) And finally, make sure you note where you saved your images if you change the default path.Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-86148836387679782132008-05-20T10:23:00.001-07:002008-05-20T14:46:54.598-07:00How to Change Case in Microsoft Word (e.g. UPPERCASE to lowercase)<span style="font-family:arial;">Have you ever been typing away in Microsoft Word only to notice, when you took a breather, that all the text was capitalized because you inadvertently hit the Caps Lock key?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Well no problem, this can be quickly remedied. Just select the text and go to <strong>Format</strong> on the menu, select <strong>Change Case...</strong> and click on <strong>lowercase</strong>.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">This works on both Macs and PCs.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Here's an illustrated overview of that process:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1. Select the text.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2. Go to Format on the menu</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">3. Select Change Case...</span><br /><br /><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXpnm-7F2emIBIcpZyNGvmjbKsTJyUURjBI6exTcQRkDNZd4hANXI1_-xRoOMJqPEqFaU0DUf7rdUoMCn0PYGw1cS_Oc51EwjbQWx6j239wHj20TOerb5owsuZFLiXVX4K75pgz4T2N0o/s1600-h/change_case_menu.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202515815226617538" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXpnm-7F2emIBIcpZyNGvmjbKsTJyUURjBI6exTcQRkDNZd4hANXI1_-xRoOMJqPEqFaU0DUf7rdUoMCn0PYGw1cS_Oc51EwjbQWx6j239wHj20TOerb5owsuZFLiXVX4K75pgz4T2N0o/s400/change_case_menu.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">4. Select <strong>lowercase</strong> in the <strong>Change Case</strong> window</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-ZTNg2lIgZjs8kDdp9g4zvgCYfsg4dU5xO-qvOvqJKhnDRnlqOY6Nc5SHVlbZAnoirEjdm4aQxRrqlnDyPjFEzDIQ5cqXRxbNG8fxH8DsMlfIJLPSA-0udGxS8c9cG9MlpCWsIr115c/s1600-h/change_case_window.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202513032087809634" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-ZTNg2lIgZjs8kDdp9g4zvgCYfsg4dU5xO-qvOvqJKhnDRnlqOY6Nc5SHVlbZAnoirEjdm4aQxRrqlnDyPjFEzDIQ5cqXRxbNG8fxH8DsMlfIJLPSA-0udGxS8c9cG9MlpCWsIr115c/s320/change_case_window.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Your text is now converted to all lower case.<span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There are five options in the Change Case window: Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Title Case and tOGGLE cASE.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Examples of the five options:</span><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Sentence:<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.............</span> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFS6F3iBVduFMR6sdMKJ6edXIh_qtsXbEqeV_aHJtO10tkwi7zgwa2qYsm3jdiT1Ni2wzkymW08t68bzTdtH-GAFttGECQgAFzL-mbmqGJZ8H6-VfZpkoIWxjKdZph1vuKvOeGptdEHXQ/s1600-h/sentence_case.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202520475266133714" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFS6F3iBVduFMR6sdMKJ6edXIh_qtsXbEqeV_aHJtO10tkwi7zgwa2qYsm3jdiT1Ni2wzkymW08t68bzTdtH-GAFttGECQgAFzL-mbmqGJZ8H6-VfZpkoIWxjKdZph1vuKvOeGptdEHXQ/s320/sentence_case.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">lowercase:<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.............</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hjnv7hokYTlcL0VcTWwQGXZ6anbBR_RGDk0JTBchcNloS93mBf5cwyNXm4UH4GfSsK0VhGIs18aYRuhfIgXow7LkRgowCxFcdMRKV8amwW5wBUi9c6rS_U9fNbEqQ6WUflgYr0HYlUs/s1600-h/lowercase.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202521334259592946" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hjnv7hokYTlcL0VcTWwQGXZ6anbBR_RGDk0JTBchcNloS93mBf5cwyNXm4UH4GfSsK0VhGIs18aYRuhfIgXow7LkRgowCxFcdMRKV8amwW5wBUi9c6rS_U9fNbEqQ6WUflgYr0HYlUs/s320/lowercase.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">UPPERCASE:<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">......</span> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZzCc5xSy328rD1m6KhxIWyk0AZtKB4CuKbPUXkAETCpap817S7B1pcCXa_sUNFij4LlkEI6TWH9Pge0aEHSbTLa6Wq6k1rHJNmDO23wMIXjJXFJRtr3LKFq6PF80utN-cPim4Wx96jw/s1600-h/uppercase.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202521647792205570" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZzCc5xSy328rD1m6KhxIWyk0AZtKB4CuKbPUXkAETCpap817S7B1pcCXa_sUNFij4LlkEI6TWH9Pge0aEHSbTLa6Wq6k1rHJNmDO23wMIXjJXFJRtr3LKFq6PF80utN-cPim4Wx96jw/s320/uppercase.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Title Case:<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">............</span> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfpsuQVsngtgYwdr7eoteyKDBRwJHkG93BGS5Gx7goTTGz4B92hw_Zdeu1sy2MnMOYL-8KRZd06Vw7pbkGd4I36j-157SuRi3Dk1Y6tOzRMhDtB_20jZLiOmVz4PsODKnD1hf_AhEA4g/s1600-h/title_case.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202522674289389330" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfpsuQVsngtgYwdr7eoteyKDBRwJHkG93BGS5Gx7goTTGz4B92hw_Zdeu1sy2MnMOYL-8KRZd06Vw7pbkGd4I36j-157SuRi3Dk1Y6tOzRMhDtB_20jZLiOmVz4PsODKnD1hf_AhEA4g/s320/title_case.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">tOGGLE cASE:<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadOzww2mVZqPR2Gae34DxKZxK6scDsHtPanGRD9m5BhOTqCcIxc-Moka6KldYDB8STHF2gzqROPXWV1V1pf-1CxlcAM0hES4hKeS5x8Eno-Fnwd8d6CCaXlr2-qjXDmlpTkr3L_OH2Dk/s1600-h/toggle_case.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202522919102525218" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadOzww2mVZqPR2Gae34DxKZxK6scDsHtPanGRD9m5BhOTqCcIxc-Moka6KldYDB8STHF2gzqROPXWV1V1pf-1CxlcAM0hES4hKeS5x8Eno-Fnwd8d6CCaXlr2-qjXDmlpTkr3L_OH2Dk/s320/toggle_case.gif" border="0" /></a></span> </li></ul>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-76506050281324896802008-05-09T16:52:00.000-07:002008-05-20T12:24:12.287-07:00Understanding Absolute Paths in Dreamweaver<span style="font-family:arial;">Sooner or later you'll want to include hyperlinks (links) in your Dreamweaver webpages. Whenever you create a link to another page in your website you have to enter a path to that file or location. Images also have paths to their source. Dreamweaver manages these paths pretty well as long as the files are within your website folder.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sometime you need to add links to web pages or files outside your website folder. This kind of hyperlink is called an <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">absolute</span> or <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">full path</span>. It is the full <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">URL</span> (Uniform Resource Locator, a pointer to a "resource" on the World Wide Web) to a web page. The path points to the exact location of the file on the internet. This type of file is always begins with the file transfer protocol (HTTP, FTP, File, and so on).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">An <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">absolute path</span> is like a house address. For example: 3333 Sycamore Lane, Raffian, Ohio 44703 is a complete address. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The link to the Scripps TSR-EYE site (</span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://www.scripps.edu/services/tsr-eye/index.html">http://www.scripps.edu/services/tsr-eye/index.html</a>)<span style="font-family:arial;"> is an example of an <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">absolute path</span>. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">It contains the entire path to a file on the internet. If you use absolute links to other websites on your web page, be sure to check to see if they are still valid from time to time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">An <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">absolute path</span> or full <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">URL</span> can consist of up to five sections, listed below:</span><br /><br /><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Protocol</span> - The first part of the URL is the protocol. It is <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">http</span> for web pages to indicate Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Sometimes you might want to link to a file on a File Transfer Protocol (<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">FTP</span>) server (another method of communication over the Internet to move files to and from a server), using ftp instead of http as the protocol in the URL.</li></ul><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Domain</span> – The second part of the address is the domain. This is the name of the web server where the web page is located. The <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">domain</span> of the TSR-EYE link is <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">www.scripps.edu</span>. A colon and two forward slashes (<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">://</span>) separate the protocol and the domain.</li></ul><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Port</span> – An optional third part of a URL is the port. If the port is not specified, the default port for the protocol is used instead. The default port for a web server is port 80. When you enter http as the protocol, port 80 is implied and doesn’t usually need to be included.</li></ul><ul style="font-family:arial;"><li><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Path and filename</span> – The fourth part of the address is the path and filename. The path includes all directories and the filename. In our TSR-EYE sample, the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">path</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">path</span> is <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">/services/tsr-eye</span> and the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">filename</span> is: <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">/index.html</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">.</span> Most web pages end in .htm or .html. Other common file endings are .cgi for Common Gateway Interface; asp for Active Server Pages; .jsp for JavaServer Pages; .aspx for ASP.NET files; .php for PHP pages; and .cfm for ColdFusion Markup language.</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzhe_gcg-oQiQajaioEYIGuM1hdD2lepa_qRzc8WnZFp6fW4zggjlqpiYcX4zms1udcSmjIWLdBGLbq55ygReQvIuO1XjtKilgwovBvMdOuVxS0y0qfItBZw-a_r6cI99Cuc4NinDCk4/s1600-h/scripps_link.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198531429251193874" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzhe_gcg-oQiQajaioEYIGuM1hdD2lepa_qRzc8WnZFp6fW4zggjlqpiYcX4zms1udcSmjIWLdBGLbq55ygReQvIuO1XjtKilgwovBvMdOuVxS0y0qfItBZw-a_r6cI99Cuc4NinDCk4/s320/scripps_link.png" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><ul><li><b style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Query string </b><span style="font-family:arial;">– The filenames might be followed by an optional fifth part of a URL – a query string.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">The query string is added to a URL to send data to a script for processing.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The “<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">?</span>” tells the browser that the following part is a variable. Anything after the<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> '?'</span> in a URL is called the "<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Query string</span>"</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">A typical URL format containing a query string is as follows: </span>http://server/path/program?query_string.<br /><br />The graphic below illustrates a URL with a <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Port</span> listing and <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Query string</span>.</li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTFVWcpJ0exxOieVGoKC1icM1nKwH2CL0mLEIN-yYc8Cq-rs3VuIGX5NrNi0Sjb4oKkTgD8g8wU1CmyWtJ2flfeFfGWtnVlRrmC8ZZZWwSqAfAzP7y6w0ip9PWnUudkbN4FGO-SSMr28/s1600-h/query_string.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198547586918161490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTFVWcpJ0exxOieVGoKC1icM1nKwH2CL0mLEIN-yYc8Cq-rs3VuIGX5NrNi0Sjb4oKkTgD8g8wU1CmyWtJ2flfeFfGWtnVlRrmC8ZZZWwSqAfAzP7y6w0ip9PWnUudkbN4FGO-SSMr28/s400/query_string.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCzOaCJ9ruqu_7ihCAmJeIt3TAzEfVxQ-0opv3-o6rA1aB7XEnetG226GXdmP_oe5TPuMhwdf-KIV8RMh5GPMORdDCgwvGrg5K2sYuSk-U8MzSToP6KI12SkP6MgeBYETTr_ec9O13ZE/s1600-h/query_string.png"></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The absolute paths to the YouTube videos are another example of query strings:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span style="font-size:85%;"><code><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frvVJJv63gg"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana,mon;font-size:100%;"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frvVJJv63gg</span></span></span></a></code></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><code><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">(Link to a Dreamweaver tutorial about Defining a your Local Root/Site Folder)</span></code></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><code><span style="font-family:arial;">You might see a URL that does not have a filename referenced at the end, such as <a href="http://www.scripps.edu/services/tsr-eye">http://www.scripps.edu/services/tsr-eye</a>. No specific file is referenced in the URL, only the final directory is included ("/tsr-eye" in this case).This type of address works because the web server looks for a default page in the directory.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Most web sites have a default page name that doesn’t need to be explicitly entered at the end of the URL.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Usually the default page name is welcome.html, default.htm, default.html, index.htm or index.html.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">On some servers, any of these names will work.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p><br /></o:p></code></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><code><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Default pages in the root of a site are often referred to as </span><b style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">home pages</b><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">To create a home page for a website, ask your webmaster or web hosting service for the default page name for your web server.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">If you don’t have a default page on your website and a visitor doesn’t enter a filename at the end of the URL, that person might see all the contents of your directories instead of a web page.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Or the user might get an error message.</span></span><o:p><br /></o:p></code></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><code style="font-family:arial;">Most browsers don’t require that you enter the protocol into the browser’s address box to go to a web page.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>The browsers assume that you want to use the HTTP protocol to access a web page.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>However, if you are surfing to an FTP file, you have to enter ftp as the protocol at the beginning of the URL.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Even though browsers assume HTTP, you still need to preface absolute links entered into Dreamweaver with <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">http://</span>.</code></span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></div>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-68321178710581657782008-05-02T17:48:00.000-07:002008-05-05T10:07:11.664-07:00Recall Email in OutlookHave you ever sent email out in anger only to regret it later? Or maybe you made a mistake, like listing the wrong date or venue for a seminar announcement. Well you may have a chance to recall the email if you work quickly. An email can be recalled only if both you and the email recipient(s) are using Outlook and have Exchange accounts.<br /><br />Here is an entertaining video on how to do that as well as how to set up a rule that will delay your email messages: <a href="http://eimr.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-jerk-what-to-do-after-youve-sent-e.html">What To Do If You Send A Kamikaze Email.</a><br /><br />Check my <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tsrisoftwaretips.blogspot.com/2008/03/delay-or-schedule-sending-message.html">March 19 blog</a> for the detailed process of creating a rule that will delay all your email. Your email will stay in your Outbox folder for the length of the delay time specified by that rule and is easily retrieved before being sent.Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-35712658501108061072008-04-25T15:29:00.000-07:002008-04-25T16:28:49.287-07:00Create a Distribution List in Outlook 2003<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">This week's blog covers the steps to create a distribution list in Outlook. Distribution lists are an efficient way to handle group mailings. It can be any kind of group - research or study group or recreational groups for sports or socializing. And you can have as many distribution lists as you want in your Outlook contacts.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">To start, open Outlook (2003).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> 1. On the </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >File</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> menu, point to </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >New</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">, and then click </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Distribution List</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4GE2VPSUqN3yeR5fSuqP5Z367zLni9CrmaK9DPqGw6zxvdgr5qUmf_PpRZvha8H82yEoUgkRPgtSNr4AYUkvi0AGAu0V5zmfE9s7yCXBa_GHT28bXpoC6DwYjvWFbfNWPO7HIRk48OTI/s1600-h/new_distributionList.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4GE2VPSUqN3yeR5fSuqP5Z367zLni9CrmaK9DPqGw6zxvdgr5qUmf_PpRZvha8H82yEoUgkRPgtSNr4AYUkvi0AGAu0V5zmfE9s7yCXBa_GHT28bXpoC6DwYjvWFbfNWPO7HIRk48OTI/s320/new_distributionList.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193316139480226866" border="0" /></a></div><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > 2. In the Distribution List window, type a name in the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Name</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > box. For this demonstration, I used Tennis Club.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > 3. Click </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Select Members</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaVNYiSmWFHc7SGDpyaWNVxaskZw6-O7nnEfsBr1LQsqxLo5KCpyuSeeC4CFVfXtnsCGR_7uJEHEmz9PIGJxUxIlE3CASDNywpq9ER7r2f9k8b6IyplOmLSDPi1qwHHU_z_mxqaK3fass/s1600-h/name_box.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaVNYiSmWFHc7SGDpyaWNVxaskZw6-O7nnEfsBr1LQsqxLo5KCpyuSeeC4CFVfXtnsCGR_7uJEHEmz9PIGJxUxIlE3CASDNywpq9ER7r2f9k8b6IyplOmLSDPi1qwHHU_z_mxqaK3fass/s320/name_box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193316800905190466" border="0" /></a></div><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > 4. In the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Show Names from the</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > list, click the address book that contains the email addresses you want in your distribution list.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7J4fP1RozrwzToomTHiDKab5SjK46_OrRF7pkjkyPEh7Yq76xDtEieKvb-DS7c1HdNK_cQibMI7D7_PHDuwKBUmHRL31A7AlvwZepQ38z4m19Nc_8Iz7siFmwn-OD5AOTD5MmflCB8JE/s1600-h/selectingmembers.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7J4fP1RozrwzToomTHiDKab5SjK46_OrRF7pkjkyPEh7Yq76xDtEieKvb-DS7c1HdNK_cQibMI7D7_PHDuwKBUmHRL31A7AlvwZepQ38z4m19Nc_8Iz7siFmwn-OD5AOTD5MmflCB8JE/s320/selectingmembers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193319279101320274" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> 5. In the </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Type name or select from list box</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >, type a name you want to include. In the list below, select the name, and then click </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Members</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >. Do this for each person you want to add to the distribution list, and then click </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >OK</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >If you want to add a longer description of the distribution list, click the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Notes</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > tab, and then type the text.<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI-sFH3kdk6SpJkK3XQvqpPM07w7B9bMKZ-HzPsMPqLDOXxc4TLhvg-NH94YhRMcsqUWMMLf-ztj4dRLx3zcqIcytDhpZtCN4xgcJZE445uYpXxtMEyRIhyyGL0bHPK_vr85Kd8tasICA/s1600-h/notes_selectmembers.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI-sFH3kdk6SpJkK3XQvqpPM07w7B9bMKZ-HzPsMPqLDOXxc4TLhvg-NH94YhRMcsqUWMMLf-ztj4dRLx3zcqIcytDhpZtCN4xgcJZE445uYpXxtMEyRIhyyGL0bHPK_vr85Kd8tasICA/s320/notes_selectmembers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193321052922813538" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> 6. Then click the </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Save and Close</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > button and your distribution list is saved in your </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Contacts</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> folder by the name you gave it.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQBKkQE3he8B3EL22uzO-mr_ItEskXsjXS2rBxIMR5b21609e7qXQjaglv7h5-q8DLtoMgh82J03E-FG2C0qJf7wFW_DivAlVJPMjSPvtHoAIhYW_8Xa9JKMlbxBCHrAt-grU7Z_pTOM/s1600-h/list_saved2_contacts.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQBKkQE3he8B3EL22uzO-mr_ItEskXsjXS2rBxIMR5b21609e7qXQjaglv7h5-q8DLtoMgh82J03E-FG2C0qJf7wFW_DivAlVJPMjSPvtHoAIhYW_8Xa9JKMlbxBCHrAt-grU7Z_pTOM/s320/list_saved2_contacts.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193321907621305458" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /></div></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > 7. When you want to use the distribution list with a new email, click on the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >To...</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > button and select contacts, find your distribution list name (Tennis Club) and select it.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1excJbbc_792i98a6RdMmzJXhnpILmu7zHCqjMlMBGXo_WxUvISJO9ZozhPq34i4U603OqWloigz_5qhsXVHVRW5NnkSoIC3CDoO5RBEfsmYT3DRg7qukrTkExPBrb0MlcJFXtYIrWHw/s1600-h/to_Tennis-Club.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1excJbbc_792i98a6RdMmzJXhnpILmu7zHCqjMlMBGXo_WxUvISJO9ZozhPq34i4U603OqWloigz_5qhsXVHVRW5NnkSoIC3CDoO5RBEfsmYT3DRg7qukrTkExPBrb0MlcJFXtYIrWHw/s320/to_Tennis-Club.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193322843924176002" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">If you want to check the members of the Tennis Club, click on the </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >+</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > sign</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> in front of the name of the distribution list to expand the list.</span><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXlMeINbfZkVWawSH9Me3DMr6VGtFnh0nL-ILXJgpFbPs_UYVEtwz53YaiQ1UyB1ICRFIlm-HNsoPc28y-MBuzOHPAIY2qFBXf2BUyu9yYpZHiDHBiAxXenWxFf_ZjDEY_Qoo2gkwBG8/s1600-h/list_expanded.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXlMeINbfZkVWawSH9Me3DMr6VGtFnh0nL-ILXJgpFbPs_UYVEtwz53YaiQ1UyB1ICRFIlm-HNsoPc28y-MBuzOHPAIY2qFBXf2BUyu9yYpZHiDHBiAxXenWxFf_ZjDEY_Qoo2gkwBG8/s320/list_expanded.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193323548298812562" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > Once you have expanded your distribution list, Outlook replaces the list with its members and does not allow you to collapse it again.</span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-49227560368200214722008-04-15T15:41:00.000-07:002008-04-15T17:49:20.849-07:00The Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop CS3<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitl6NZ2LH7za2g5wCo4AtTGHouGFE_G1bHGWZDmnEWY2KJ12fyKGRt22hf5Nbwcp7eQyp0N43JqD4BbKo4nHzSCT_-1boZzpm___xYy_r3HeWNSi_pyDrQieAKIIlGRMf1qC5LWGloEx4/s1600-h/quickselect_tool+copy.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitl6NZ2LH7za2g5wCo4AtTGHouGFE_G1bHGWZDmnEWY2KJ12fyKGRt22hf5Nbwcp7eQyp0N43JqD4BbKo4nHzSCT_-1boZzpm___xYy_r3HeWNSi_pyDrQieAKIIlGRMf1qC5LWGloEx4/s200/quickselect_tool+copy.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189615521779139266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><p class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The traditional way of making selections in Photoshop involved using a tool such as the Magnetic Lasso to trace the perimeter of the area that you intended to select. Then Adobe introduced the Magic Wand tool, which allows you to make selections by clicking on specific areas within an image that you’d like to select—the Magic Wand then makes an educated guess at the selection based on pixel color. Photoshop CS3’s new <strong>Quick Selection</strong> tool is the next step in Photoshop selections—it makes the entire process of selecting specific parts of an image easier, faster, and more accurate.</span></p><h3 style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" class="style1"><span style="font-size:100%;">Advantages of the Quick Selection Tool</span></h3><p class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Though you can still use the Magnetic Lasso and /or the Magic Wand to make selections in Photoshop CS3, you’ll probably want to use the Quick Selection tool instead, since it offers so many advantages over its predecessors:</span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><strong>Ease:</strong> The Quick Selection tool does most of the work of making a selection for you. You don’t need to trace the area manually, as you do with the Magnetic Lasso, or click once and hope that the tool guesses</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > the selection that you’d like to make, as you do with the Magic Wand. Instead you simply paint within</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> the area that you’d like to select.</span><br /></span> </li></ul> <ul style="font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Accuracy:</strong> The Quick Selection tool guesses the areas that you intend to select much more accurately than the Magic Wand tool does. The tool’s accu</span><span style="font-size:85%;">racy makes the process of making even complicated selections much more efficient.</span></li></ul><ul type="disc"> <li class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong style="font-family: verdana;">Convenience:</strong><span style="font-family:verdana;"> With other selection tools, after you’ve made your selection, you need to use other features to fine-tune it. If you then decide to change the selection, you need to step back through your History to redo the selection. The Quick Selection lets you fine-tune your selection from within the tool itself, before finalizing the selection.</span><br /><br /></span> </li> <li class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><strong>Preview:</strong> Photoshop users typically make selections with the intention of using the selected pixels in another image (or layer), as a Quick Mask, or as a Layer Mask. The Quick Selection tool facilitates this process by letting you preview how your selection will appear against various colored backgrounds, as a Quick Mask, or as a Layer Mask before you actually make the selection.</span><br /></li></ul><h3 face="verdana" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" class="style5">How to Access the Quick Selection Tool</h3> <p class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Quick Selection tool is located in Photoshop’s Tools palette, in the same button that houses the Magic Wand tool.</span></p> <ol><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Click on the Magic Wand tool’s icon</span></span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEB-XinIIs-0TeAXkHPBtQvaUkFJ7Atd7Y4BqMqioPDEs6xyDg8B0_Cll8iQYfXppHE5s_Gg1RxLSVm5mOHYVVtWKZ7xQzeg1fu7s3_Op63e3g-xfZISHoyWTaUAM0O03AYzwphahqQI/s1600-h/magicwand.BMP"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEB-XinIIs-0TeAXkHPBtQvaUkFJ7Atd7Y4BqMqioPDEs6xyDg8B0_Cll8iQYfXppHE5s_Gg1RxLSVm5mOHYVVtWKZ7xQzeg1fu7s3_Op63e3g-xfZISHoyWTaUAM0O03AYzwphahqQI/s200/magicwand.BMP" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189617871126250210" border="0" /></a> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >in the Tools palette and move your cursor to the right.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span class="style4" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">A submenu will appear to the right in which you can select the Quick Selection tool.</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQenKy9gIv5XeRXQiZqRrva2hFDhoB7SjlSqubu6nO9-gLTXJiMeXZrKGeqkPwz4a9oGgfk4sQWjdYI3nF2laFUFqcH3ddc29pNP5K93QlfWB2559YFi-ChOnOT1oFvIvQoFAeZPJafI8/s1600-h/quickselect_tool_g.GIF"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQenKy9gIv5XeRXQiZqRrva2hFDhoB7SjlSqubu6nO9-gLTXJiMeXZrKGeqkPwz4a9oGgfk4sQWjdYI3nF2laFUFqcH3ddc29pNP5K93QlfWB2559YFi-ChOnOT1oFvIvQoFAeZPJafI8/s200/quickselect_tool_g.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189618210428666610" border="0" /></a><br /></li></ol><h3 style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" class="style1"><span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Quick Selection Toolbar<br /></span></span></h3><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ></span><p class="style4" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">When you select the Quick Selection tool in the Photoshop Tools palette, the Quick Selection toolbar will appear just under the main Photoshop toolbar at the top of your screen. The Quick Selection toolbar contains several options and features unique to the Quick Selection tool</span>.<br /></span> </p><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:verdana;"> 1. Select the Quick Selection tool.<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > 2. Specify one of the selection options in the options bar: New, Add to, Subtract from. <span style="font-weight: bold;">New</span> is the default option if nothing is selected. After making the initial selection, the option changes automatically to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Add to</span>.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" > 3. To change the Quick Selection tool brush tip size, click the Brush menu in the options bar and type in a pixel size or move the Diameter slider. Use the Size pop-up menu options to make the brush tip size sensitive to pen pressure or a stylus wheel.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><span style="font-family:verdana;">When creating a selection, press the right bracket (]) to increase the Quick Selection tool brush tip size; press the left bracket ([) to decrease the brush tip size.</span><br /></em></span><br /><span class="style4" style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 4. Choose Quick Selection options</span></span></strong></span><span class="style4" style="font-size:85%;"><strong><br /> <span style="font-family:verdana;">Sample All Layers</span></strong><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Creates a selection based on all layers instead of just the currently selected layer.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Auto-Enhance</span> reduces roughness and blockiness in the selection boundary. Auto-Enhance automatically flows the selection further towards image edges and applies some of the edge refinement you can apply manually set in the Refine Edge dialog box with the Smooth, Contrast and Radius options.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" ><br /></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" > 5. Paint inside the part of the image you want to select. The selection grows as you paint. As you paint near the edges of a shape, the selection area extends to follow the contours of the shape edge</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEg8CSUA2EGWYL7ae_uL5JvwThIOEu-3tWSMQyhi8uKhnVBXlOmqnqOEYXClBSVMVmITp1aE3LsqIcmFZIF1O1Hs9a-i7hi5UuHnPxTzOZyO_TKE8xxlPlpsNGrC-oTOjH6pWzYA9Pn0/s1600-h/both_giraffe.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEg8CSUA2EGWYL7ae_uL5JvwThIOEu-3tWSMQyhi8uKhnVBXlOmqnqOEYXClBSVMVmITp1aE3LsqIcmFZIF1O1Hs9a-i7hi5UuHnPxTzOZyO_TKE8xxlPlpsNGrC-oTOjH6pWzYA9Pn0/s400/both_giraffe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189626632859534130" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em> Painting with the Quick Selection tool to extend the selection.</em></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" ><ul>If you stop dragging and then click or drag in a nearby area, the selection will grow to include the new area. </ul></span><ul><li><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" >To subtract from a selection, click the Subtract from option in the options bar, then drag over the existing selection. </span></li><li><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" >To temporarily switch between add and subtract modes, hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key. </span></li><li><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" >To change the tool cursor, choose Edit > Preferences > Cursors > Painting Cursors (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors > Painting Cursors (Mac OS). Normal Brush Tip displays the standard Quick Selection cursor with a plus or minus sign to show the selection mode.</span></li></ul><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" class="style4" ><ul>6. (Optional) Click Refine Edge to further adjust the selection boundary of view the selection against different backgrounds or as a mask.</ul></span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-63006359942039029112008-03-27T15:05:00.000-07:002008-03-27T17:01:16.332-07:00Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh]<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">This week's software tip is about <a href="http://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a>, an extension for the browser Firefox. Many thanks to </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Christoph Weber of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">TSRI's</span> Research Computing department</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> who</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> discovered and shared it with me. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Zotero</span> is a free, easy-to-use yet robust research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">(citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Zotero</span> includes some of the best features of older reference manager software (like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">EndNote</span>), has the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Plus it’s compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.</span> <span style=""> </span></p> <span style="font-family:arial;">Since this very cool extension lives in your Firefox browser, it can transmit information to, and receive information from other web services and applications; and it can communicate with software running on your computer such as Microsoft Word. Zotero can even be used offline. And I did mention it’s FREE.</span><p></p> <span style="font-family:arial;">Here’s where to download Zotero</span>:<a href="http://www.zotero.org/"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.zotero.org/</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.zotero.org/"></a><p></p> <span style="font-family:arial;">A good way to get acquainted with Zotero is by watching the <a href="http://www.zotero.org/videos/tour/zotero_tour.htm">ztour</a> video found on the <a href="http://www.zotero.org/">Zotero home page</a>. The program is pretty intuitive, but if you need a little guidance, there is a user friendly <a href="http://www.zotero.org/download/promote/quick_start_guide.pdf">Quick Start Guide</a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">pdf</span> that can be downloaded.<span style=""> </span>And there are <a href="http://www.zotero.org/documentation/screencast_tutorials">screencast tutorials</a> on the support page demonstrating many of the basic functions of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Zotero</span>.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="arial">Zotero is a production of the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/">Center for History and New Media</a> at <a href="http://www.gmu.edu/">George Mason University</a>. It is funded by the <a href="http://www.imls.gov/">United States Institute of Museum and Library Services</a>, the <a href="http://www.mellon.org/">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sloan.org/">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</a>.</p><span style="font-family:arial;">Look for it to grow over the next year from an already helpful browser extension into a full-fledged tool for digital research and collaboration.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial;" ></span><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"></p></span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-66526896598814545642008-03-19T12:03:00.000-07:002008-03-19T16:41:51.274-07:00Delay Sending a Message in Outlook<p><span style="font-family:arial;">Have you ever sent off an email only to realize you forgot to add something, or that you shouldn't have sent it period? A way of preventing email errors is to create a rule that delays your email by 2 or 3 minutes, just enough time for you to realize that you've made a mistake. However, you need to have a Microsoft Exchange account for this rule to work.<br /><br />If you have a Microsoft Exchange account, you can delay delivery of an individual message, or you can delay the delivery of all messages using <strong>Rules</strong> by having them held in the <strong>Outbox</strong> for a specified time after clicking <strong>Send</strong>. Here's how you do it:<br /><br /><strong><em><em>Delay delivery of an individual message</em></em></strong> </span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><ol><li>In the message, click <strong>Options</strong>. </li><li>Under <strong>Delivery options</strong>, select the <strong>Do Not deliver before</strong> check box, and then click the delivery date and time you want.<br /><strong><em></em></strong></li></ol><p><strong><em>Delay delivery of all messages <a href="http://www.scripps.edu/hr/training/delayemail.html">(watch the video)</a></em></strong></p><strong><em><ol><li></em></strong>On the <strong>Tools</strong> menu, click <strong>Rules and Alerts</strong>, and then click <strong>New Rule</strong>. </li><li>Select <strong>Start from a blank rule</strong>.</li><li>In the <strong>Step 1: Select when messages should be checked</strong> box, click <strong>Check messages after sending</strong>, and the click <strong>Next</strong>.</li><li>In the <strong>Step1: Select condition(s) </strong>list, select any options you want, and then click <strong>Next</strong>. If you do not select any check boxes, a confirmation dialog box appears. Clicking Yes applies this rule to all messages you send.</li><li>In the <strong>Step 1: Select action(s)</strong> list, select <strong>defer delivery by a number of minutes</strong>. Delivery can be delayed up to two hours.</li><li>In the <strong>Step 2: Edit the rule description (click on an underlined value)</strong> box, click the underlined phrase <strong>a number of</strong> and enter the number of minutes you want messages held before sending.</li><li>Click <strong>OK</strong>, and then click <strong>Next</strong>.</li><li>Select any exceptions, and then click <strong>Next</strong>.</li><li>In the <strong>Step 1: Specify a name for this rule</strong> box, type a name for the rule.</li><li>Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li></ol><p><br /><br /><br /></p></span>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207674374732462602.post-15225068754836200482008-02-01T16:24:00.000-08:002008-03-27T16:36:38.318-07:00Welcome<span style="font-family:arial;">Greetings Software Fans!</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">This is the first of my blog series. I'll be posting software quick tips for Adobe Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. Also I'll post some Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003 tips as well. And occasionally toss out some platform tips for both Windows and Mac operating systems.<br /><br />If you need specific information about one of those applications, send me an <a href="mailto:%20jstumpp@scripps.edu">email.</a> Check back periodically for software updates, tips, comments and suggestions by myself and fellow TSRI bloggers.<br /> - Jesse </span><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></p>Jesse Stumpp - Software Trainer at The Scripps Research Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791209291572084046noreply@blogger.com1