Wednesday, May 13, 2009

New Line in the current cell:

When you're typing text into a cell, by default hitting Enter takes you to the next cell. However, to wrap your text in the current cell as you type? Hit up Alt-Enter.

You can also use the Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut while entering information in order to force your data onto multiple lines in a single cell.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Handbill:

A hand-delivered advertisement or promotional piece distributed to consumers in a trading area. It is also called flyer. Flyers are typically used by individuals or businesses to promote their products or services. They are a form of mass marketing or small scale, community communication.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Making Slides Print Correctly:

PowerPoint has certain defaults to determine how it prints each object on the page. You can see over-ride these defaults. Go to View/Black and White; this will show you a gray-scale preview of how your slide will print. To change the print settings for any given object, right-click on it, then click "Black and White", and then choose the appropriate print option for that object. Master objects can be selected by going to the Master page View.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Setting up Calendar Delegation:

The first step in configuring the Calendar Delegation feature is to set the access rights for the Lotus Notes calendar that will be managed by another user. The executive who delegates access to his calendar needs to specify who has access to it and what level of access the delegate will have before the delegate can perform calendar and mail tasks on his behalf.
Follow these steps to specify, to delegate, and to set up access rights to a user's mail and calendar data:
1. In the Lotus Notes client, open the executive's mail file. From the Calendar view, click the Tools action bar button, and then select Preferences to display the Preferences screen. Click the Access & Delegation tab to display the "Access to Your Mail & Calendar" tab (see figure 1).

Figure 1. "Access to Your Mail & Calendar" tab displayed

2. Click the "Add Person or Group" button to display the Add People/Groups dialog box (see figure 2).

Figure 2. Add People/Groups dialog box

3. Select the "Enter or choose a user/group" option and then click the scroll bar in the text box under section 1 to display the Select Name dialog box.
4. Select the person who will manage this user's calendar and then click the OK button. You'll be returned to the Add People/Groups dialog box, with the selected user's name displayed in the text box below section 1.
5. After you have selected your calendar manager, you must specify how much access he'll have. If you select the "Only Calendar and To Do" option under section 2 and then click the scroll bar under section 3, two options will display in the drop-down list: "Read any Calendar Entry or To Do" and "Read, create, edit, and delete any Calendar Entry or To Do."
6. If, however, you select the "All Mail, Calendar and To Do" option under section 2, then click the scroll bar under section 3, five levels of access will display:
o Read any document
o Read and create any document, send mail on your behalf
o Read, edit and create any document, send mail on your behalf
o Read, edit, create and delete any document, send mail on your behalf
o Read and create any document, delete any document they created, send mail on your behalf
7. Select which type and level of access to grant the mail file delegate. Under section 4 you can specify whether notices related to your calendar entries will be forwarded to the delegate. Click the scroll bar under section 4 to display the forwarding options:
o Do not forward
o Forward without private details
o Forward with full details
8. Select the desired forwarding option, and then click OK to return to the "Access to Your Mail & Calendar" tab. The designated calendar manager and his access rights will display (see figure 3).

Figure 3. Access rights displayed for designated calendar manager

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Fiscal Year:

A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is a period used for calculating annual ("yearly") financial statements in businesses and other organizations. In many jurisdictions, regulatory laws regarding accounting and taxation require such reports once per twelve months, but do not require that the period reported on constitutes a calendar year (i.e., January through December). Fiscal years vary between businesses and countries.
In addition, many companies find that it is convenient for purposes of comparison and for accurate stock taking to always end their fiscal year on the same day of the week, where local legislation permits. Thus some fiscal years will have 52 weeks and others 53.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

History of Firefox:

A Web browser is sort of like the tires on your car. You don't really give them much daily thought, but without them, you're not going anywhere. The second something goes wrong, you definitely notice.

The origins of Firefox can be traced directly to Netscape, a compan¬y whose Web browser, Netscape Navigator, was the dominant browser before Microsoft developed Internet Explorer. The internal company name for the browser was Mozilla. Eventually, Netscape released the source code for Navigator under an open source license, meaning anyone could see and use the code. A non-profit group was set up to direct the development of browsers using this code. This group became the Mozilla Foundation in 2003.

However, Firefox is not the browser the Mozilla group would have released if everything had gone as planned. Like Netscape Navigator before it, the Mozilla software was becoming bigger and bigger as more features were added in -- a problem in software development known as "feature creep" or "bloat." Enter Blake Ross, a computer enthusiast who first started helping out the Mozilla project as a hobby when he was 14. Instead of accepting feature creep, Ross decided to start developing his own Mozilla-based browser, focusing on a streamlined and simple version. Software developer Dave Hyatt also played a major role. Ross was joined by Ben Goodger in 2003, and development progressed rapidly from that point.
At first, the browser that would be known as Firefox was known as Phoenix. There were trademark problems, however, so the name was changed to Firebird. Another software company had a project known as Firebird, so the name was again changed. Firefox was chosen because it was distinctive, and no one else was using it.

When Firefox was still in the beta stage (when a program hasn't been publicly released, but people can download and use it to help find and fix problems), it was already generating a healthy buzz among tech-savvy Web surfers. In just four months after the official release on Nov. 9, 2004, an estimated 23 million people downloaded Firefox. Web tracker OneStat.com reported on Nov. 22, 2004, that Internet Explorer's share of Web browser use had dropped five percent since May of that year. Firefox had a user percentage of 4.5 percent. Current estimates (as of August 2008) have Firefox's market share at nearly 20 percent.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Tree Diagram:

A decision tree (or tree diagram) is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. Decision trees are commonly used in operations research, specifically in decision analysis, to help identify a strategy most likely to reach a goal. Another use of description trees is as a descriptive means for calculating conditional probabilities.
A decision Tree consists of 3 types of nodes:-

1. Decision nodes - commonly represented by squares

2. Chance nodes - represented by circles

3. End nodes - represented by triangles


Amongst decision support tools, decision trees (and influence diagrams) have several advantages:
• Are simple to understand and interpret. People are able to understand decision tree models after a brief explanation.
• Have value even with little hard data. Important insights can be generated based on experts describing a situation (its alternatives, probabilities, and costs) and their preferences for outcomes.
• Use a white box model. If a given result is provided by a model, the explanation for the result is easily replicated by simple math.
• Can be combined with other decision techniques.