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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Working with Charts - Inserting a Chart from Excel

If you want to reuse an existing chart from an Excel spreadsheet, you can quickly copy and paste it into PowerPoint.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Working with Charts - Inserting Charts

If you use the same chart type on a frequent basis, click the Set as Default Chart button to select this chart type by default every time you open the Insert Chart dialog box.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 : Working with Charts - Understanding Charts

Charts enable you to display, analyze, and compare numerical data in a graphical format. For example, you can use a column chart to compare sales revenue by region over a period of time.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Positioning shapes with rulers and guides

In some of the preceding exercises, you have aligned shapes by using the Dynamic Grid feature of Visio 2013. However, the Dynamic Grid doesn’t always do what you need.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Copying, pasting, and duplicating shapes

Pasting copied shapes works more logically in Visio 2013 and Visio 2010 than it did in previous versions of the product.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Selecting shapes

You can use several techniques for selecting shapes in Visio. The most obvious is that you can click once on a shape to select it. To select more than one shape using this method, hold down the Shift key or the Ctrl key while clicking additional shapes. You can remove shapes from an existing selection with the same method.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Using basic shapes and the Dynamic Grid

Visio 2013 provides an enhanced Dynamic Grid. The purpose of the Dynamic Grid is to help you position a shape with greater accuracy as you drop it on the page or when you relocate it, thereby eliminating much of the need to drag and nudge the shape into alignment after you’ve placed it.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating and Running Action Queries (part 4) - Creating and Running Make Table Queries

Whereas an Append query adds records to an existing table, a Make Table query creates a new table, which is often a temporary table used for intermediary processing.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating and Running Action Queries (part 3) - Creating and Running Append Queries

You can use Append queries to add records to existing tables. You often perform this function during an archive process. First, you append to the history table the records that need to be archived by using an Append query. Next, you remove the records from the master table by using a Delete query.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating and Running Action Queries (part 2) - Creating and Running Delete Queries

Rather than just modify table data, Delete queries permanently remove from a table any records that meet specific criteria; they’re often used to remove old records. You might want to use a Delete query to delete all orders from the previous year, for example.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating and Running Action Queries (part 1) - Creating and Running Update Queries

You use Update queries to modify all records or any records that meet specific criteria. You can use an Update query to modify the data in one field or several fields (or even tables) at one time.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating and Running Parameter Queries

You might not always know the parameters for the query output when you’re designing a query—and your application’s users also might not know the parameters. Parameter queries let you specify specific criteria at runtime so that you don’t have to modify the query each time you want to change the criteria.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Getting Help from the Expression Builder

The Expression Builder is a helpful tool for building expressions in queries and in many other situations in Access. To invoke the Expression Builder, you click the Field cell of the query design grid and then click Build on the toolbar.

Microsoft Accesss 2010 : Enhancing the Queries That You Build - Creating Calculated Fields

One of the rules of data normalization is that you shouldn’t include the results of calculations in a database. You can output the results of calculations by building those calculations into queries, and you can display the results of the calculations on forms and reports by making the query the foundation for a form or report.

Using OneNote with Other Office 2010 Applications : Entering Outlook Information (Email, Meeting, Contact, Task) on a Page

In Outlook, you can click the OneNote button to copy information from Outlook to OneNote. You can copy email messages, meetings, contacts, and tasks.

Using OneNote with Other Office 2010 Applications : Entering Meeting Details from Outlook in a Note

Using the Calendar, you can schedule meetings in Outlook. When you schedule a meeting, you enter its name; its date and time; and, if you want, a description.

Using OneNote with Other Office 2010 Applications : Opening a Page in Word, Creating an Outlook Task in OneNote

OneNote offers a command for opening a page in Word. Use this command to take advantage of the numerous editing tools that are available in Word. After you open the page in Word, you can edit and save it as a Word document.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Panning and zooming in Visio

As you work with more detailed Visio diagrams, you will find that you frequently need to zoom in and out and pan—move left-right and up-down—within the drawing window.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Managing the Shapes window

In this exercise, you will learn various ways to manipulate the Shapes window so it appears in the most useful size and position when you are working on a drawing.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Exploring the drawing window

All previous versions of Visio displayed the grid on the drawing page by default. However, in Visio 2013, the opposite is true. To make the grid visible, click Grid in the Show group on the View tab.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Working with Graphics - Moving an Object, Resizing an Object , Deleting an Object

When you draw an object on or add an object to a worksheet, you might not like its placement. Perhaps the object obscures the worksheet data, or maybe it needs to be moved a little closer to (or farther away from) the data.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Working with Graphics - Selecting an Object, Formatting an Object

Each of these items exists on a separate layer on top of the worksheet and is generically called an object. As you discover in the next several tasks, you can format, move, resize, and delete objects; first, however, you must select the object you want to modify.

Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 : Extending PowerPoint with Third-Party Software - Getting Creative with Third-Party Templates, Backgrounds, and Clip Art

Even though PowerPoint and Microsoft Office Online offer an extensive array of templates, backgrounds, and clip art to use in your presentations, sometimes you just want something different.

Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 : Extending PowerPoint with Third-Party Software - Camtasia Studio, Articulate Rapid E-Learning Studio, Adobe Presenter

With all its powerful new features, PowerPoint 2010 lessens the need for many third-party applications. However, there are still times when you might want to take advantage of the advanced functionality of specialty software. This section covers a trio of options worth considering.

Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 : Customizing Themes and Backgrounds - Applying and Customizing Backgrounds

You can further customize your theme by applying, removing, and modifying its background. In addition to specific color backgrounds, you can also add special background effects such as shading, patterns, textures, and pictures to your presentation.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Minimizing and restoring the Visio ribbon, Understanding shapes, masters, stencils, and templates

Because the ribbon takes a reasonable amount of space at the top of the Visio window, you may want to minimize it if you need more space for the drawing page.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Understanding tool tabs and add-in tabs

All of the ribbon tabs shown in the preceding sections are visible 100 percent of the time as you run Visio. However, there are two types of tabs that only appear when necessary.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Exploring the Visio ribbon

Consequently, there might be tabs, buttons, or options in the screen shots that don’t apply if you are using the Standard edition

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Working with the ribbon

The Office ribbon is a dynamic user interface element; its appearance changes if the width of the window in which it is being viewed changes. As a result, a button might be large or small, it might or might not have a label, or it might even be an entry in a list.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product - Identifying new features of Visio 2013

If you have used any previous version of Visio, you will find a rich set of new features described in the sections that follow. Even if you’ve never used Visio, it will still be worth reading through the features described here in order to learn more about the capabilities of the software.