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Dreamweaver templates

DREAMWEAVER - Dreamweaver templates are such a great time-saving feature. Templates can be used in two ways: firstly, a new page can be based on a template and, secondly, a template can be applied to an existing page. To create a new page based on a template, proceed as follows...

HTML Properties Inspector

DREAMWEAVER - As you work on your web pages in Adobe Dreamweaver, you constantly need to review them in a web browser. To facilitate this process, Dreamweaver allows you to configure as many browsers as you would like to see use for previewing. You can specify one browser as your primary, or preferred, browser; you can then specify a secondary browser and as many additional browsers as you want...

Preview in Browser Preferences

DREAMWEAVER - As you work on your web pages in Adobe Dreamweaver, you constantly need to review them in a web browser. To facilitate this process, Dreamweaver allows you to configure as many browsers as you would like to see use for previewing. You can specify one browser as your primary, or preferred, browser; you can then specify a secondary browser and as many additional browsers as you want...

Headers and Footers

EXCEL - Headers and footers are particularly useful for documents that require several pages to print. The header is information printed at the top of each page; the footer at the bottom of each page. There are two ways of working with headers and footers in Excel. Both are found in the Page Layout Tab Of the Excel Ribbon..

HTML and XHTML

DREAMWEAVER - HTML is a markup language used to create documents designed to be accessed across the World Wide Web using browser software such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. The version of HTML in current use is known as XHTML, a stricter, rationalised version of the original HTML specification...

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Using Cell Styles in Excel 2007

EXCEL - Microsoft Excel 2007 contains a very wide variety of formats that you can apply to your cells. Naturally, when you create your worksheets you want your formatting to be consistent. Cell Styles offer an excellent way of achieving this...

Dreamweaver's Preset CSS Layouts

DREAMWEAVER - CSS is a far more complex technology than HTML and using CSS to control the layout of your pages requires experience. Fortunately, Dreamweaver contains a wide variety of CSS layouts which can be used to create both individual pages and also templates which can then be used to generate multiple pages...

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Microsoft Word 2007 Ribbon Controls

WORD - The controls in each of the Word Ribbon Tabs are organised into groups. For example in the home Tab we have Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles and Editing. As always in Microsoft applications, hovering over a control displays a tool-tip. In the case of Office 2007, these tool-tips are quite extensive...

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The Microsoft Word 2007 Ribbon

WORD - The Ribbon is the most important aspect of the Microsoft Word interface. It contains the vast majority of the commands that the programme has to offer. These commands are arranged in a series of Tabs. To activate a Tab, click on its name...

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Entering Formulas With The AutoSum Tool

EXCEL - Excel's AutoSum tool is used to automatically generate formulas. It is found in two locations on the ribbon: firstly in the Editing section of the Home Tab; and, secondly in the Function Library section of the Formulas Tab. The AutoSum tool has several uses. Firstly you can use it to generate the total or SUM of a series of numbers...

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Photo Album

POWERPOINT - PowerPoint presentations are a great way of communicating and influencing your clients, work colleagues or audience. One of the most important components within presentations are images. This tutorial will show you how to take a group of images and turn them, as if by magic, into a PowerPoint presentation...

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Using anchored picture boxes as bullet points

QUARKXPRESS - In QuarkXPress, an anchored box is one which has been pasted inside a text box and behaves, in some measure, as if it were a character. It is often useful to achor picture boxes which contain images that are closely related to a particular section of text. In this tutorial, however, we will take advantage of this feature to use an image (imported into an anchored picture box) as a bullet point. We will use the example of a poster on quitting smoking and let's suppose we want to use a circular no-smoking graphic as our bullet...

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Isolating path segments

ILLUSTRATOR - Each Illustrator object, whether closed (for example, a line) or open (for example, a circle) consists of one or more path segments held together by anchor points. This tutorial shows how the direct selection tool can be used to select path segments and then how a segment or segments can be isolated using Cut and Paste in Front...

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Single layout mode

QUARKXPRESS - Although many users still refer to the files created by QuarkXPress as documents, in fact QuarkXPress creates projects rather than documents. Projects are containers for layouts, each with its own page size, margin and column guides, master pages and medium (print or web). Realising that some users may not wish to use this multi-layout capability, Quark introduced, in version 7, the ability to deactivate it and to work in single layout mode...

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Nested styles

INDESIGN - Styles are typically used in long documents to streamline the formatting of text. Each style has a range of attributes associated with it, so that when the style is applied to text, all of the associated attributes are applied in one hit. Paragraph styles apply to complete paragraphs while character styles can be applied to any selected text. Nested styles offers the user a way of embedding a character style within a paragraph style. In this tutorial, we will look at how a nested style can be used to create bullet points...

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The Tag Selector

DREAMWEAVER - The area at the bottom of the document window is referred to as status bar and, as with the status bar found in the bottom left of your web browsers window, it is used to display useful information. However, Dreamweaver's status bar is interactive: the details it displays are also options which can be used to select and change elements on the page...

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Resizing both box and contents

QUARKXPRESS - Ordinarily, when you resize a picture box, the box changes size but the picture doesn't. Similarly, if you resize a text box, the box will change size and the text inside it will simply reflow to fit the new size and shape of the box. This tutorial shows a simply technique for resizing the contents of the box as well as the box itself...

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Creating a clock

ILLUSTRATOR - In this tutorial, you will see how Illustrator allows you to create series of objects by duplicating and transforming an existing object. In this example, the transformation in question is rotation and very importantly, all transformations take place with reference to the same central point, ensuring radial symmetry...

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Dreamweaver's role in web development

DREAMWEAVER - Traditionally, there were two types of software tool which could be used to create web pages. The first type allowed you to edit the code which produces each of your pages. The second type offered you a WYSIWYG interface... The fact that Dreamweaver falls into both categories may help to explain why it has become an industry standard tool for website development...