PowerPoint Tips and Tricks
...or, Some Ideas for Good PowerPoint Presentations There are people who believe the joke that says, “We have met the enemy, and he is PowerPoint.” I don’t think so. But it is true that some people, through no fault of their own, don’t know where to...
Track Changes in Microsoft Excel–Essentials
One of my wife's colleagues recently asked about whether it's possible to track changes in an Excel spreadsheet. It certainly is, though it works a little differently than in Word, say. Turning the feature on in Excel is quite easy--simply go to the Review tab in...
Access vs Excel—Which should we use for what?
Judging Access vs Excel can take thought. Most people find Microsoft Excel fairly easy to learn—it has a fairly gentle learning curve, the fundamentals only take a short time to pick up, and the program is actually fairly versatile—it’s not just a ledger book on steroids....
RGB vs CMYK–Which should I use?
Having taught and worked with Adobe Photoshop for many years, I get asked many basic but good questions about it by new users. One has to do with color, and the color systems we use in a picture. There are several that Photoshop can use, but...
How to Use COUNTBLANK in Excel
Some of the Excel functions, such as IF, come into play all the time, even outside business. They're versatile and can do a lot. But others seem a little abstruse, or out in left field. One question I occasionally get from business people in Excel is...
Microsoft Project: Formatting a Gantt Chart for Summary Task
Recently a student posed a question during a Microsoft Project class. How does one format the bars of a Gantt chart to look the same for each unique summary task? Something that may look like this. It begins with creating a custom flag field for each...
Access 2013: Creating a Calculated Field
Often times the information you need isn’t stored as a field within a database. As a matter of fact, certain fields make more sense to calculate whenever they are needed instead of storing the value in a table. Microsoft Access 2013 makes this very easy. To...
Access 2013: Saving a Filter as a Query
You find yourself working in an Access table filtering out some unnecessary data and it dawns on you this filtering is something you’ll end up doing frequently. It would make sense to store this process as a query in the database. Okay, so now I have...
HTML: A Brief History
Long ago in the far off land of Switzerland something very interesting began, and Al Gore wasn’t there. 1989 Tim Berners-Lee proposes an Internet based hypertext system for sharing documents between disparate operating systems while working as a contractor at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)....
New Templates in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
https://youtu.be/jI5mOFZKsZ0 In this free tutorial, you'll learn about the new templates that come with Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 that can make starting a web, photo or print project easier and faster. For more Photoshop training visit our Photoshop Training page.
Changing Microsoft Projects Default Task Duration
In a recent Microsoft Project class a question arose concerning the default task duration, which is set in days. This student had recently been working on a deployment project and the default duration was too broad. It needed to focus on a smaller time-frame and it...
Controlling Eye Settings using Face-Aware Liquify in Photoshop CC 2017
In this free tutorial, you'll learn about the new settings to control individual (left/right) eyes using the Face-Aware Liquify tool in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Learn more about Photoshop in our Photoshop training courses.
Photoshop CC 2017 Emoji Font Additions
This is just a quick note to add to the others articles on Photoshop’s recent 2017 Release. The Type Tool has a new addition. Wait for it… The Type Tool now offers access to Emoji’s.   I know…  
Photoshop CC 2017 Property Panel Update
November of 2016 has seen an update to the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite which includes Photoshop. I have already posted one article on the changes to the New Document window and another article on the updates to the Liquify Filter. The focus of this article will...
Photoshop CC 2017 Face-Aware Liquify Update
If you remember the last update to Photoshop (Summer 2016) we shared a post about the new Liquify Filters Face-Aware feature. It turned out to be a wonderful addition. The filter addition would naturally recognize the facial region and let you modify eyes, nose, mouth, and...
Photoshop CC 2017 New Document Window
Sometimes the changes to an application are subtle, sometimes not so much. Last year’s Start Workspace in Photoshop was one of those not so subtle changes. Just a few weeks back Adobe’s Creative Cloud application suite updated to its 2017 version and Photoshop has added another...
The HTML q Tag
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 to 20 years ago I sat down one weekend with a book, a computer, and a few images and put together my first basic website. It was about artists from the Impressionist movement and was not anything to brag about...
HTML5 Form Date Attribute
Getting corporate America to make the move to HTML5 seemed to take longer than any other transition we’ve seen in the past. In part I’m sure due to the long development process. From first working draft in January of 2008 to stable recommendation in October of...
Adding Power View to the Excel Ribbon
In recent years Microsoft has included several add-ins to boost Excels usage in the world of Business Intelligence. They include Power Map, Power Query, Power Pivot, and our topic of discussion today, Power View for Excel 2013. Each of these ship with the Professional Edition of...
Styling the Humble Checkbox Using CSS
The checkbox has been a staple in the world of HTML forms since day one and for the most part has remained unchanged. HTML 4 introduced the label tag which can be associated with a checkbox using an id attribute in the checkbox and the for...