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    <description>Software application hints and tips from our Microsoft Qualified trainers</description>
    <language>en</language>
    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:14:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Dreamweaver (Adobe)) Quick Tag Editor</title>
      <description>If you want to quickly access your HTMl tag while in design view, highlight your item on a page and press Ctrl+T</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-559-quick-access-tags.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Expression Web) Protecting Email Addresses</title>
      <description>If you put mailto: links on your web page, spammers can crawl your web site and 'pick up' the e-mail addresses quite easily.

One tip to deal with this is to NOT use mailto: links at all. Simply write the e-mail address, and don't link it.

Spammers can get these e-mail addresses too, so one thing you can do to stop the majority of spammers getting just plain text e-mail addresses of your web pages is to use the following code:

[code]me&lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;mysite.com[/code]

This code will appear correctly on your web page and allows users to copy and paste it into their email client, but isn't seen by the automatic harvesters that spammers use.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-556-protecting-email-addresses.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Excel) Charts</title>
      <description>Select the data and press the function key F11 and the chart will be created on a separate worksheet.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-555-create-chart.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Dreamweaver (Adobe)) JumpMenu in new window</title>
      <description>When inserting a jumpmenu to a page, the only option available for 'open in' is usually 'main window'. There would be other options available if the page was a frameset.

To change the jumpmenu to open in a new window, change the target parameter of the selectbox in your code to 'window.open()'.

eg.
[code]&lt;select name=&quot;menu1&quot; onChange=&quot;MM_jumpMenu('window.open()',this,0)&quot;&gt;
[/code]

source:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16166&amp;sliceId=1</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-554-jumpmenu-in-new-window.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Excel) Copying Formulae Quickly</title>
      <description>There is a quicker way of copying a formula down a column.

Just point and double click on the black autofill handle in the right hand corner of a cell.  

This will work providing you have some data in the column to the left of the column.

Sandy</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-553-formula-using-autofill-handle.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Excel) Closing Multiple Workbooks quickly</title>
      <description>When you have several workbooks open in Excel and want to just close them all at once:

1) Hold down the SHIFT key before selecting the File menu.  

2) Once in File menu release SHIFT key and select Close All option. 

3) All your files will close.  If files require saving Excel will ask if you want to save the changes.
</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-552-close-all-open-workbooks.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-552-close-all-open-workbooks.html</guid>
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      <title>(Excel) Missing Field handle</title>
      <description>If your field handle goes missing all you need to do is go to tools > options > edit tab and then make sure that the check boxes for paste and insert buttons are checked.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-551-lost-your-field-handle.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-551-lost-your-field-handle.html</guid>
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      <title>(Windows) middle mouse button in firefox</title>
      <description>Clicking on links in Firefox with your middle mouse button (scroll wheel) opens links in new tabs.

Clicking on tabs with your middle mouse button (scroll wheel) closes the tab.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-550-middle-mouse-button-firefox.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-550-middle-mouse-button-firefox.html</guid>
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      <title>(Powerpoint) Enter Date</title>
      <description>To open a dialog box allowing you to enter the date in Normal View press Alt+Shift+D</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-547-enter-date.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-547-enter-date.html</guid>
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      <title>(Excel) Separate the year from a date</title>
      <description>To separate the year from a date use the =year() function, eg a date is in cell A1 and in A2 you wish to display the year enter the function =year(A1)</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-548-separate-year-from-date.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-548-separate-year-from-date.html</guid>
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      <title>(Excel) Formula for last day of month</title>
      <description>In some cases it is necessary to find the last day of a month for a given date. If you use the following formula, you can achieve this, ie; if you have a column of dates, use this formula to find the end of month for each day by using the fill handle. The formula is as follows, and assumes in this example that the first date in question is in cell C5, in any other cell type; =DATE(YEAR(C5),MONTH(C5)+1,1)-1
</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-549-find-month-last-day.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-549-find-month-last-day.html</guid>
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      <title>(Excel) Select Single Data Marker</title>
      <description>To select a single data marker in a chart, ie line, bar or column;
After you have pressed Ctrl+Click (to select the entire chart) you can press the Up or Down arrows to select a data series, then press the Left or Right arrow to select a data point within that series.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-544-select-single-data-marker.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Excel) Using Alt in Save Dialog Box</title>
      <description>When you are saving (or opening) a file, try these;
(Note the numbers are on the keyboard not the numeric keypad)
1. Go to previous folder       Alt+1
2. Go up one folder level      Alt+2
3. Search the Web              Alt+3
4. Delete selected file        Alt+4 or Delete
5. Create a new folder         Alt+5
6. Cycle through all views     Alt+6 repeatedly
7. Display the Tools menu      Alt+7</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-545-alt-in-save-dialog.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Excel) New Normal Worksheet</title>
      <description>Do you want all your worksheets to confirm to a certain look? Then change the Defaults!!!
1. Press Shift+F11 to create a new worksheet
2. Press Ctrl+A to select (higlight) all cells, Press Ctrl+1, make any formatting changes then click OK.
3. Press F12 (Function 12 key) click in the Save As Type, drop down, then select Template (*.xlt)
4. Click in the Save in drop-down, then find the folder;   c:_program files_microsoft office_office_start. (For the underscores shown use backslash)
Name your templete sheet.xlt, then press Enter.
Sheet.xlt is used when you insert a new worksheet (Shift+F11)

Note: These changes are permanent changes on your PC.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-546-new-normal-worksheet.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Excel) Sorting List Subtotals</title>
      <description>If you find that you would prefer to show the items in a subtotalled list in a different order, eg ascending rather than descending, you can sort your list. To sort a subtotalled list, hide the detail rows and then sort the subtotal rows. When you sort a subtotalled list, the hidden detail rows are automatically moved with the subtotal rows. 
IMPORTANT: If you do not hide the details rows before sorting a subtotalled list, your subtotals will be removed and all of the rows in your list will be reordered.</description>
      <link>http://www.microsofttraining.net/tip-541-sorting-list-subtotals.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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