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Configure Linux to read your PC floppy disks
Insight Reconfiguring a Linux floppy drive as a DOS floppy drive makes it easy to transfer files in a nonnetworked Windows/Linux environment. Find out how Linuxconf makes this possible.
Tutorial: Enforce data integrity with constraints and Enterprise Manager
Insight Data integrity is essential to the effectiveness of a Microsoft SQL Server database. Enforcing data integrity is achieved with data constraints, which can be implemented through the Enterprise Manager client.
Lotus Notes training: Archiving documents
Insight Everyone--from support staff to e-mail administrators--would be happier if Lotus Notes users kept less e-mail in their Inboxes and active folders. Help your users get a grip on their seldom-accessed items through Lotus Notes' archiving features.
Display hidden data in an Excel chart
Techguide By default, Excel displays only visible data in a chart. Consequently, if you hide worksheet data, Excel won't display that data in a chart.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Database, Option, Chart, Microsoft Corp., Tools Menu, Figure B, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, technique
Add a looping introduction to a PowerPoint presentation
Techguide You can set up your slide shows to include a little preview presentation that will help prime your audience for the main event. Susan Harkins shows this simple but highly effective technique.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Presentation, Slide, Template, Button, Invoice, PowerPoint Presentation, Microsoft Excel 2007, sales tax, Figure
Space controls evenly across an Access form
Techguide Access offers a handy command that makes it easy to give your forms a more polished look. See how equally spacing controls can improve the effect.
Tags: Building Block, Document, Feature, Goto, F5 Networks Inc., Figure E, Figure B, Figure C, Figure D, Microsoft Excel
View All Running Tasks with Task Scheduler
Techguide The Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler has many default tasks that you may or may not wish to run in your environment. Learn about a new feature that can help you determine if a process is not ending as planned.
Tags: Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Task, Microsoft Corp., domain controller, Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, Figure B, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
See what process is using a TCP port
Techguide Windows admins may have to track down errant processes and then match that to network traffic. Here are scripts that aid in the connectivity forensics at the port and process level.
Tags: Data Management, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Port, TCP, Google Inc., VNC, network tool, Figure B, Server
Add upcoming renewal dates to your Access database
Techguide Calculating future dates in Access is easy, thanks to the DateAdd function and SQL UPDATE command. Here's an example.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Renewal, Cell, Database, SQL, Clear, Figure, Figure B, Microsoft Excel
High availability with SQL Server and Double-Take Part III
Techguide Using Double-Take, you can restore your SQL Server data once a failover has occurred.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003, Server platforms
Performance Analyzer speeds up Access database response
Insight Poor database design can slow your Access users to a crawl. Find out how to use Access's built-in Performance Analyzer to quickly analyze a problem database and automatically repair and optimize DB objects.
Changing numbers into words in Excel
Insight Microsoft Excel does not ship with a function that will convert a numeric value into English words. However, there is a user-defined function that will perform that service.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Effective charting in Microsoft Excel
Insight Getting Microsoft Excel's charting tool to behave can be a challenge at times. Here's a easy way to create a cumulative comparison chart in Microsoft Excel.
Easy page-numbering in Word
Insight tutorial Dealing with massive documents? Here's a page-numbering tip to help your readers navigate better within document sections.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Put these Firefox add-ons in your toolbox
Techguide Use the "View formatted source" and "View Source Chart" for viewing and working with the source code for pages viewed within Firefox.
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