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- Microsoft's Font Properties Extension tool gets more out of your fonts
- The typical font properties dialog box contains little useful information. Microsoft's Font Properties Extension tool gleans much more information from fonts, making it easier to choose the right font for your projects.If you’re like most IT pros, you probably use Microsoft’s TrueType and OpenType fonts extensively to liven up the...
- Tags: Greg Shultz, Microsoft Corp., font, Font Properties Extension tool, Font Properties Extension, font properties dialog box, tool
- Technical articles 2002-12-12
- Tech Tip: Word font substitution/Quickly name Excel cells/Improving Access code value display
- Get familiar with the Font Substitutionfeature When you open a document formatted in a fontthat's not available on your machine, Word automaticallysubstitutes an equivalent from the installed fonts. Even though thefont may look different, Word still displays the name of themissing font in the Font drop-down box...
- Tags: cell, font, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, substitution
- Technical articles 2004-03-16
- Equip your combo box controls to do smart searches
- Combo boxes are a standard part of most user interfaces. See how you can make this old standby easier to use with a little help from the SendMessage API.You try to build various conveniences into your interfaces to make life easier for your users, and some of the functionality can...
- Tags: Construction, Irina Medvinskaya, SendMessage API, SendMessage function, window
- Technical articles 2002-05-22
- How do I... Create a scrolling content box in CSS?
- In my last TechRepublic Programming and Development blog entry, I showed you how to use Flash to create an animation that mimicked the behavior of the retired and sometimes reviled <marquee> tag. I had mentioned that it was possible to use CSS to duplicate the <marquee> tag as well, but...
- Tags: Bedroom, Body, Peg, HTML, Kitchen, Tunnel, Window, Garden, Wound, River, Straight, Hill, Class, Chair, Coat, Wall, Title, scrollBox, Helvetica, Construction, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, John Lee
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- JavaHelp: Creating online documentation the easy way
- Most developers cringe at the thought of developing online documentation. See how JavaHelp can ease the pain.JavaHelp, an optional package of the Java platform, is a great tool for implementing online documentation for your applications. It's both an engine that displays documentation and an API that drives that engine. JavaHelp's...
- Tags: Backups, Java, Alexandre Pereira Calsavara, JavaHelp, online documentation
- Technical articles 2002-05-23
- TechRepublic Tutorial: Add tech support information and a logo to the System Properties dialog box
- Learn how to customize the Systems Properties dialog box to make sure users call you for help.When you purchase a computer from one of the major PC manufacturers, you know that the General tab in the System Properties dialog box probably contains the company’s logo and a button that, when...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Greg Shultz, dialog box, System Properties dialog box, System Properties, Oeminfo.ini
- Technical articles 2002-11-27
- Help Menu Font size in MS Office 2003
- Everytime I open the Help menu in any MS Office 2003 application and ask a question, whether Word, Excel etc., the fonts are unreablebecause they are tiny. How can I increase their size? I know the Help is connected to the web. ThanksHelp MenuHere it is directly from Office 2003...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Shasca, font, Microsoft Office 2003, General Tab, Web, Web page, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Quick Tip: Create application shortcuts for the Windows Run command
- You can easily launch almost all of Windows' native applications and some third-party applications simply by typing the name of the executable file in the Open text box and clicking OK. For example, you can launch Calculator by accessing the Run dialog box, typing Calc in the Open text box,...
- Tags: executable file, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows, Open Text, registry, Run Command
- Technical articles 2003-04-14
- Laying out elements with the CSS box model
- If you've ever had a chance to inspect the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS2 specification nice bedtime reading, you've been presented with the box model for laying out pages. Basically, the box model states that everything included in a Web page can be described as living in a box. You...
- Tags: box concept, Baseline Inc., CSS
- Technical articles 2003-11-07
- Tech Tip: Word toolbar buttons/Create an Excel template/Change Access text box label position
- Word: Add a button to a toolbar You can't access all of Word's built-in buttonsfrom the default toolbars. To use some built-in buttons, you'llhave to add them to a toolbar. For example, suppose you regularly use theTools menu to check a document's word count, but you'd rather...
- Tags: Formatting, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, template, toolbar
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
- VB script lets you print the file path in Excel 2000 worksheet footers
- Adding the file path to your printed documents can improve your organization's ability to manage information. But this is easier said than done in some versions of Excel--until now. Find out how a simple VB script can do the job in a snap.One of the companies I consult for stores...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft VBScript, Microsoft Visual Basic, Gregory Harris, footer, Microsoft Excel, header, Footer
- Technical articles 2002-06-21
- How do I... Publish Microsoft Access check box controls to a Word document?
- This article is also available as a PDF download.Access' native controls are functional without beingoverwhelming. However, the other Office applications don't always interpretAccess controls properly. For instance, the publishing process loses check boxcontrols and their bound data when publishing an Access report to Word.Fortunately, there are a couple of easy...
- Tags: Microsoft Office
- Technical articles 2007-04-11
- Debugging ASP.NET with Managed C++ codebehinds
- Despite what many developers think, debugging ASP.NET Web forms in Managed C++ is a straightforward process. Find out how to configure the debugger and put it to work.Believe it or not, there is really nothing special about the process of debugging a Web form. You do things like set breakpoints,...
- Tags: .NET, Channel management, Microsoft development tools, Stephen Fraser, Web Form, Microsoft ASP.NET, Web, Update Web.config, property page
- Technical articles 2002-08-08
- Custom font toolbar saves time—and teaches a valuable skill
- Introduce your students to Word's customization features by letting them build a tailored toolbar for applying their favorite fonts.Most Word users need only a handful of fonts for their everyday documents, but they still have to scroll through dozens of entries on Word’s Font drop-down list to manually change fonts....
- Tags: Jody Gilbert, Microsoft Office, toolbar, font, Microsoft Word
- Technical articles 1999-08-12
- Play hide-and-seek with the logon script dialog box
- Windows 2000 won't let you watch the logon scripts execute to ensure the scripts work properly. However, with some help from John Sheesley, you can turn on the logon script dialog box.Logon scripts can be very useful to help configure workstations after users log on to the network. The problem...
- Tags: John Sheesley, dialog box, logon script dialog box, group policy, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2001-11-27
- How do I add System Font in Acrobat 6.0?
- When I open an Acrobat 5 file in Acrobat 6 Pro when trying to do Text TouchUP I get the following error:All or part of the selection has no available system font. You cannot add or delete text using the currently selected font.I have the full install Acrobat...
- Tags: Acrobat 5, Adobe Acrobat, ddvorpahl@..., font, software
- Q&A 2005-01-10
- Tech Tip: Print multiple Word pages/Create an Excel list box/Create flexible Access controls
- Word: Print multiple pages on one sheetIf you regularly print large documents or sendprinted copies of them through the mail, you can save on both paperand postage by using Word's Zoom feature. With Zoom, you can printas many as 16 pages on a single sheet of paper. Printing multiplepages on...
- Tags: access control, cell, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Zoom
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
- Configure IT Quick: Use Windows 98 Registry Checker to manually restore a corrupt registry
- Many IT pros don’t know that Windows 98 comes with a built-in registry backup tool called Registry Checker. This hidden tool works in the background and once a day scans the Windows 98 system’s registry for errors. If the registry is error-free, the Registry Checker automatically backs up the registry....
- Tags: backup, Greg Shultz, information technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 98, registry, Registry Checker
- Technical articles 2003-02-03
- Talking Shop: Know Dynamic DNS before trying Windows 2000 exams
- Dynamic DNS is an integral part of the Windows 2000 certification examsMicrosoft warns that its Windows 2000 Server MCP exam tests candidates on their ability to configure and troubleshoot Windows 2000 network connections. As part of your preparation, you should ensure that you’re familiar with the workings of Win2K’s Dynamic...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Microsoft Corp., Configuring DDNS, Erik Eckel Network+, MCP+I, MCSE, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, DNS, Microsoft Windows 2000, Dynamic Domain Name System, Microsoft Windows, DHCP, server, dynamic DNS
- Technical articles 2001-05-11
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