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February 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 2

Total Training for Microsoft® Excel® 2007: Essentials


Learning to use Excel has never been this simple. Our video tutorials quickly and thoroughly walk you step-by-step through all aspects of Excel. Do you need help understanding how to import and organize your spreadsheets, or simply format existing data? This series gives you the answers to these common challenges of getting up to speed on Excel. Plus, learn techniques to combine your creative business instincts with data presentation so you can have more time to actually run your business.		Course Outline
Total Training for Microsoft® Expression® Web From FrontPage to Expression Web
If you're ready to move beyond FrontPage and take advantage of the cutting-edge new features in Microsoft Expression Web, this video will get you up and running at Internet speed. Expression Web is all about rich media content and what better way to learn it than to see it via our videos. In six in-depth lessons, Internet expert Janine Warner shows you how to make a smooth transition from FrontPage to Expression Web. Before you know it, you'll be creating web pages using modern Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layouts and Dynamic Web Templates.		Course Outline

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Just this month, we announced six new products for SQL Server,

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Industry News

The Creative Suite Conference Miami
February 28 - March 3, 2007

The Creative Suite Conference will be at the Miami Beach Convention Center February 28- March 3, 2007. Join leading Creative Suite experts, developers, and authors for three days of exciting Creative Suite information!

This year's conference has 16 leading Creative Suite experts and covers over 25 sessions. In addition, there will be ten half-day, hands-on tutorials during the conference.

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Save $100 on the full conference registration fee by using the following discount code TOT07CS.

Webinar for ASP.Net hosted by Microsoft
Join Andy Olsen, presenter for Total Training for ASP.NET in a 60 minute webinar on ASP.NET

What you'll learn:
In Microsoft ASP.NET version 2.0, master pages provide templates for standardizing a layout across your website. In this webcast, Andy Olsen will explore how master pages and themes are designed to work separately and with each other. He'll review the basics and then delve into using nested and device-specific master pages, ordering events, setting the master page and theme, applying skins, and more.

When: Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 10 AM PST
Audience: Developers

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Microsoft Expression Seminar:
Last month, you may have seen us in San Francisco, Chicago, or New York as we teamed up with Microsoft on the launch of Expression Studio. The seminars were a great opportunity for designers to check out the new professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression.

Our sponsorship of the after party was a great success. We rubbed elbows with familiar community folks and got a chance to meet many of our customers face to face.

We're proud to team up with Microsoft on this major launch for the creative community with seminars and providing sample tutorials produced for each Expression Studio product box.

New Study by Internet Retailer
A strong market is developing for rich Internet features, a new study reports

Now's the time to start fine tuning your skills in Adobe Flex, Microsoft ASP.NET, and Microsoft Expression Web.

"More than 90% of marketers surveyed by Scene7 in a recent poll say they will be adding rich Internet applications over the next year to enhance the online user experience. Richer imagery, alternative views and gift suggestions were the most-frequently cited planned additions.

The survey, which polled retailers, catalogers and e-commerce sites, determined that the respondents considered the most effective rich Internet features those that involved improved product presentation. 78% of those surveyed cited zoom for that reason, while 76% cited visual product configurators, 75% cited color swatching and coloring, and 73% of respondents cited online monogramming with the same percentage citing alternative views."

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Tip and Trick

Tip and Trick for Microsoft Excel 2007 from Michael Alexander, presenter for Total Training for Microsoft Excel 2007: Essentials.

Michael's Bio

Eliminate Spreadsheet Bloat
As you add and delete data to cells, Excel will hold file space for those cells that once contained data. That is to say, any cell that previously held data and is now blank, will still take up file space. The result of this behavior is that as you work with an Excel workbook, you will notice that the workbook will grow over time. This is referred to as spreadsheet bloat. To release any unused file space, do the following.

1. Select any cell then click the Find & Select button in the Home tab.
2. Select the Go To Special option.
3. Click the "Blanks" option and press OK.
4. Go up to the Home tab and select Clear>Clear All.
5. Save your workbook.

For more tips and tricks for Microsoft Excel, see Total Training for Microsoft Excel 2007: Essentials

Presenter's Corner

We recently sat down with Janine Warner, Presenter for Total Training for Microsoft Expression Web. Here's some of what we learned about Janine. Janine's Bio


Q:		What is the favorite project on which you ever worked?
A:		DigitalFamily.com. It's so satisfying to help families and friends share stories and photos on the Web, and the photos are so loving and adorable.
Q:		What is your most creative time?
A:		I'm a night owl, but sometimes the chirping of the birds in the morning also inspires me.
Q:		When you're not plugged into work, what are you doing?
A:		Hiking, biking, staring at the ocean, and hanging out with my husband and friends.
Q:		What are your three favorite features for this product?
A:		1. Great CSS Support 2. ASP.NET development options 3. Integration with Visual Studio
Q:		How did you get started in the industry?
A:		I have a background in journalism and in the mid �90s started playing with the Internet and realized it would forever change the way we share information. So I set out to learn everything I could about this new communications medium and that led me to learn HTML and get "techier" than I could ever imagine I would in journalism school. I like to call myself a "techy translator" since I use my background as a journalist to develop easy to understand training about Web design and the Internet.

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