In this Word tutorial, we’ll see how to adjust a simple but important visual feature–spacing between paragraphs, and between lines of text. Want to learn more about this and other features in Microsoft Word? Check out our Word training courses, taught by live instructors in …
In this Word tutorial, we’ll walk through the basic technique for creating an AutoText entry, which saves time and work for anything you have to type on a regular basis. Want to learn more about this and other features in Microsoft Word? Check out our …
In this Crystal Reports tutorial, you’ll see how to create and fine-tune a cross-tab, allowing us to break down and analyze money- and other numbers to see what’s coming from where. Want to know more about this and other features in Crystal Reports? Check out …
In this Crystal Reports tutorial, we’ll learn how we can create a basic chart, so we can understand the numbers faster and see how business is going. Want to know more about this and other abilities in Crystal Reports? Check out our Crystal Reports training …
Someone had a question about working with text in Photoshop using Bitmap mode. “Between 50% threshold, pattern dither, diffusion dither and halftone screen, which one is more suitable for text use?” This is the image mode which converts to strictly black-and-white pixels. We want to …
The table is just too useful to keep out of many business documents these days. It’s too good at organizing data. Luckily, even a desktop publishing program like InDesign has the feature handy. And we can even import an existing one pretty much as-is, to …
Illustrator is capable of treating text as a graphic element much as anything we draw with any of the tools, so the ability to warp type shouldn’t come as a surprise. Type on a path is another feature in the same ballpark (check my previous …
Fields, in Crystal Reports, are the way we bring data from a source into a report. Sometimes, we need to combine the data with text even more directly than placing them side by side. The technique we can use is similar to creating a mail …
A while back, I posted an item about text layout in InDesign. There’s another aspect of it I wanted to mention which might be of some further interest, namely kerning. This is usually the fitting-closer-together of pairs of letters whose shapes make it aesthetically possible …
