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Microsoft Access 2010 : Sharing Data with Other Applications - Importing, Linking, and Opening Files

When you import data into an Access table, Access makes a copy of the data and places it in the Access table. After Access imports the data, it treats the data like the data in any other native Access table

Microsoft Word 2010 : Using Advanced Text Features - Addressing Envelopes

By default, Word assumes that you are printing a standard business-size (4 1/8” × 9 1/2”) envelope. To use a different-size envelope, click the Options button.

Microsoft Word 2010 : Using WordArt (part 2) - Changing the Format of a WordArt Object

If you aren’t happy with the way your WordArt looks, you can format it in a bazillion different ways. But this is where things can get slow and laborious, and where you start pulling your hair out while you tinker with dozens of options and their collectively infinite combination of settings.

Microsoft Word 2010 : Using WordArt (part 1) - Inserting WordArt Text

Creating WordArt is the easiest part of the process. You just type your text and apply a quick style. The hardest part comes later, if you decide to add more formatting to a piece of WordArt.

Microsoft Word 2010 : Creating and Formatting Text Boxes (part 3) - Formatting Text in a Text Box, Linking Text Boxes

Text in a text box is basically the same as text in a document; it just fits in a smaller space. A text box can hold multiple paragraphs, including numbered and bulleted lists

Microsoft Word 2010 : Creating and Formatting Text Boxes (part 2) - Resizing a Text Box , Moving a Text Box

To move a text box, click its border and drag it to a new location, as shown in Figure 5. If the text box was created from a building block (other than the Simple Text Box building block), the document’s text wraps around the box as determined by the building block’s text wrapping setting.

Microsoft Word 2010 : Creating and Formatting Text Boxes (part 1) - Inserting a Text Box

The text box is one of the secret weapons of great document layouts. In fact, lots of multicolumn documents, such as the newsletter template shown in Figure 1, don’t use columns at all. Instead, they are laid out with text boxes.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : The Concept of a Standard Deviation

Suppose someone told you that you stand 19 units tall. What do you conclude from that information? Does that mean you’re tall? short? of average height? What percent of the population is taller than you are?

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Measuring Variability with the Range

Just as there are three primary ways to measure the central tendency in a frequency distribution, there’s more than one way to measure variability.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Environment Options (part 6)

The Customize Ribbon tab is used to add or subtract controls from the Ribbon (see Figure 11). Options available in the left pane are filtered by the Choose commands from the drop-down above the left pane. The right pane enables you to specify the location of added controls.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Environment Options (part 5)

The Save tab is where you define what kind of file you want your project to save as and where you want to save it. You can also turn on the Auto Save feature to automatically save your project as you are working.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Environment Options (part 4)

The Schedule Alerts options enable you to turn task schedule warnings and task schedule suggestions on and off. More experienced users of Project often find these alerts obvious and distracting.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Environment Options (part 3)

The Calendar options section is one of the more critical sections in the Options dialog box. All fields in the Calendar options section are file-specific; select the All New Projects item if you want to use the information on all future projects as well as the one you are working on.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Environment Options (part 2)

As previously mentioned, there are 11 tabs in the Options dialog box. Option settings are global unless they are grouped under a header suffixed with “...options for this project.”

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Environment Options (part 1)

The Options dialog box has been completely redesigned for Project 2010, but it serves the same purpose. It enables you to view, modify, and define assumptions about your project and how you will manage it.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Replacing shapes

In the first part of this exercise, you will create a diagram from a template you haven’t used yet. In the second part, you will use an important new Visio feature that enables you to replace any shape with an entirely different shape, and yet retain all of the original shape’s key characteristics.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Using AutoAdd and AutoDelete

If you don’t like the results of an AutoAdd or AutoDelete operation, a single undo command will reset all changes made by the shape addition or deletion.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Identifying 1-D shapes and types of glue, Using AutoConnect and Quick Shapes

AutoConnect was introduced in Visio 2007 and provides a fast means to link shapes using dynamic connectors. Quick Shapes were introduced in Visio 2010 and build on AutoConnect to let you create drawings even more quickly.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Connecting shapes with dynamic connectors

In this exercise, you will perform some of the same steps you completed in the previous exercise, but you’ll use dynamic connectors in order to understand the differences in behavior.

Microsoft Access 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Working with Outer Joins

Outer joins are used when you want the records on the one side of a one-to-many relationship to be included in the query result, regardless of whether there are matching records in the table on the many side.

Microsoft Access 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating Totals Queries

Add to the query grid the fields or expressions you want to summarize. It’s important that you add the fields in the order in which you want them grouped. For example, Figure 1 shows a query grouped by country and then by city.

Microsoft Access 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Using Aggregate Functions to Summarize Numeric Data

By using aggregate functions, you can easily summarize numeric data. You can use aggregate functions to calculate the sum, average, count, minimum, maximum, and other types of summary calculations for the data in a query result.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Custom Fields

Every project is unique. Accordingly, Project 2010 enables the use of custom fields in addition to its extensive selection of default fields.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Calendars (part 2) - Setting Project and Resources Calendar

Start dates for tasks are generally determined by resource calendars, unless you create a task calendar, in which case the resource will operate based on the task calendar.

Microsoft Project 2010 : Setting Up Project for Your Use - Defining Calendars (part 1) - Calendar Hierarchy , Modifying and Defining Base Calendars

Much of your calendar modifications will occur on the Change Working Time dialog box. To access it, click the Project tab, Change Working Time. Figure 1 shows the Change Working Time dialog box.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Connecting shapes with lines

Visio shapes are either one-dimensional (1-D) or two-dimensional (2-D). 1-D shapes act like lines with endpoints that can be attached to other shapes. 2-D shapes behave like polygons with edges and an interior.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Resizing and repositioning shapes

Once you’ve placed shapes onto the drawing page, you will probably need to move or resize some of them. Visio provides a variety of techniques for doing so. You can alter shapes using your mouse or keyboard, or a combination of the two. You can also use the Size & Position window.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Working with Charts - Modifying and Formatting Charts (part 3) - Formatting Charts

The Chart Tools—Format tab, as shown in Figure 4, enables you to apply formatting to specific chart areas, such as the axes, legend, gridlines, and series.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Working with Charts - Modifying and Formatting Charts (part 2) - Modifying Your Chart’s Layout

The Chart Tools—Layout tab, as shown in Figure 3, enables you to change your chart type, edit chart data, and apply chart layouts and styles.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Working with Charts - Modifying and Formatting Charts (part 1) - Modifying Chart Design

PowerPoint includes three contextual tabs that enable you to modify the design, layout, and format of your charts. These are, appropriately named, the Chart Tools—Design tab, the Chart Tools—Layout tab, and the Chart Tools—Format tab. These tabs are nearly identical to the Chart Tools tabs in Excel.