by Jaylen Derell
CCleaner
Your PC, irrespective of it being of Windows XP or Vista will build up numerous provisional and lingering internet files due to its usage over a period of time. You need to ensure that the redundant files that have collected in your PC over time are removed in total and to achieve that, we are testing out the new CCleaner to determine its functional utility and also see for ourselves, how safe it will be for your PC.
Installation and Setup
With good bandwidth, it is very convenient to download the CCleaner onto your PC. The CCleaner has pretty standard short cut conveniences, but one needs to take precautions to see that there is no elimination of required icons due to oversight by clicking the recycle bin menu. Though, the CCleaner has a facility to take in the Yahoo Toolbar, the user has the choice to decide for or against…
by Carol Alexander
In order to create a chart in Microsoft Excel, you must highlight the data that you want to plot. Your selection should also include any relevant headings. Excel allows you to create charts on chart sheets independent of the worksheet containing the data or to embed the chart on the worksheet alongside the data.
To create a chart which is embedded in the worksheet itself, having selected the range of data that you wish to plot, click on the Insert tab of the Excel ribbon and, in the chart section, you will find a series of drop-down menus offering each of the main chart types. Each drop-down reveals a gallery of customised chart types.
Additionally, we can click on the launch button in the bottom right of the Charts group to display the Insert Chart dialog box. Here, we are given access to the full range of chart types that…
by Alan Spencer
Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) has very quickly established itself as a viable technology with a huge range of real-world applications. One of the main reasons for its importance and wide acceptance is the fact that it offers a working solution to one of the key problems faced by software developers and computer users alike: the exchange of incompatible data. Each software environment creates its own unique type of binary file which only it can understand. When data is exported in XML format, it becomes a known quantity, independent of the environment in which it was originated.
Adobe’s PDF format is another example of a platform-independent format which has gained worldwide acceptance. When a document is saved in PDF format, its format is set in stone, it can viewed and printed with its layout and formatting intact, without the need for the software which created the original document. However, whereas…
March 19, 2009 – 11:02 am
by Alan Spencer
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is an XML-related technology which is used to transform XML data. XML file are used to set the ground-rules for a given body of data and to describe the data itself. XSL allows us to take that data and convert it into information which can be displayed in a web browser window or opened with a text editor. It can also be used to create an XML file which is a modified version of an original XML file.
When displaying elements in a browser window, the XSL elements which enable looping through an XML tree and decision-making really come into their own. One of the key methods used in XSL for looping through XML elements is the “For-each” element. This uses the “select” attribute to specify which element is to be targeted in the loop. The “For-each” element has both an opening and a closing…
by Carol Alexander
As we move away from the days when the printed version of a document was always the definitive one, Adobe’s PDF format becomes more and more important. InDesign allows you to create PDF documents; you don’t need a separate copy of Acrobat for this purpose. In addition to creating the PDF, InDesign also allows you to make it interactive, thus enhancing the user experience of anyone who opens it. To ensure that the various interactive features are included in the PDF, you must activate the “Interactive Elements” option in the Export PDF dialog box.
There are five main types of interactivity which InDesign allows you to add to your PDFs: bookmarks, links, buttons, video and transitions. When viewing a PDF file in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, bookmarks are normally displayed in a panel on the left of your screen; clicking a bookmark takes you to the page to which…
by Andrew Whiteman
Excel presents us with a number of different ways of inserting new sheets into your workbooks. One of the easiest is to use the Insert Worksheet button. This can be found on the right of the worksheet tabs. Regardless of the worksheet which is active, clicking this button always inserts a worksheet as the last tab in your workbook.
It is also possible to create a worksheet at a given position within the workbook. For example, let’s say we are working on a workbook containing a record of the invoices issued by a company in each month of the year. We have twelve worksheets named “January”, “February”, and so on. We would now like to insert quarterly analysis sheets at the end of each quarter.
As with columns, Excel will always insert new worksheets to the left of the currently selected tab. Therefore in order to insert the first quarterly…
