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Insert Headers or Footers into Your Office 2013 Document

Office 2013 lets you insert either headers to the top of your document or footers to the bottom of it. Headers and footers are customizable in both format and content. [more…]

How to Share Documents between Programs in Office 2013

Office 2013 makes sharing data between documents easy. For example, you can copy a chart from Excel and paste it into a Word document, or copy a graph from Excel and use it in a PowerPoint presentation [more…]

How to Password Protect Your Office 2013 Files

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint let you create a password to protect your files. If your Office 2013 files are password protected, only the people who know the password can open them. Be sure to pick a password [more…]

How to Minimize SPAM in Outlook 2013

The Junk E-mail Options in Outlook 2013 lets you decide how aggressively you'd like the SPAM filter to work. The higher you set your SPAM filter options, the more likely Outlook will accidentally label [more…]

How to Customize the Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2013

You can customize the Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2013 programs to include the options that you use most often. You can decide whether the Quick Access Toolbar so it shows up either above the Ribbon [more…]

How to Create and View Queries in Access 2013

You can create a query in Access 2013 to remember a sort or filter preference that you use frequently. Use the Simple Query Wizard to create a query that shows you just a few fields of data [more…]

How to Add Transitions to a PowerPoint 2013 Presentation

Transitions define how PowerPoint 2013 slides or pictures change from one to the next. Using transitions makes your PowerPoint presentation more visually intersting. You can also make sound effects accompany [more…]

How to Add Audio to a PowerPoint 2013 Presentation

You can insert anything from a simple sound effect to a recorded speech into a PowerPoint 2013 presentation. PowerPoint also lets you record audio directly from your computer's microphone. [more…]

What’s Your CSS Style?

One of the most confusing aspects of working with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is that you can write styles in so many ways. Similar to writing prose, just because you understand the basic rules of grammar [more…]

Dreamweaver CC Image and Multimedia Tips

No matter how great your content is, your images, videos, and multimedia make a big impression on the visitors to your Dreamweaver website. Here are a couple of tips for managing the images, videos, and [more…]

Ten Timesaving Dreamweaver Web Design Tips

All good websites grow and evolve. If you start with a strong design and pay close attention to some basic rules about interface, navigation, and style, you have a better foundation to build on. The following [more…]

The Dreamweaver CC Welcome Screen

Dreamweaver’s easy-to-use graphical interface and powerful list of features makes it a popular choice among professional web designers as well as hobbyists. With each new version, Dreamweaver offers new [more…]

How to Install Extensions in Dreamweaver CC

Even with all the cool features in Dreamweaver CC, you might want to do things that Dreamweaver can’t do with the features that shipped with the program. Fortunately, the programmers who created Dreamweaver [more…]

24 Websites and Resources for Web Designers

Even experienced web designers refer to online resources to keep up with their skills and add special features to their websites. The following websites will make it easy for you to find some resources [more…]

Dreamweaver CC For Dummies Cheat Sheet

You can use Adobe Dreamweaver CC to create new websites or redesign existing ones. In Dreamweaver CC, which stands for Creative Cloud, you find the familiar Welcome page plus new tools for managing Cascading [more…]

Ensure the Quality of Incoming External Data

When you are designing a data warehouse and you determine what external data you need, you just place an order (similar to ordering clothes or a fruit basket from an online site). After you begin receiving [more…]

Determine What External Data You Really Need

Don’t overdo it when you think about what external data you need for your data warehouse. The same rule that applies to internal data in your warehouse is just as applicable to externally sourced data: [more…]

Why Is External Data Important to Your Data Warehouse?

External data — from outside your own company — is important to your data warehouse for one simple reason: To ensure that you make the right business decisions, you need to see the big picture, which usually [more…]

Identify Data You Need for Your Data Warehouse

Simply ask yourself this question: Looking at a complete list from within your company of all data sources that will provide data to the warehouse, what else do you need that you don’t already have on [more…]

View External Data from a User’s Perspective

Here is an outline of how a data warehouse user sees external data and its importance. Consider these two tables. This table shows the sales performance for Good Guys, Inc., and the following table shows [more…]