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How to Slope Roofs in Revit

The default method of sloping a new roof in Revit requires setting one or more of the roof's boundary lines as slope defining and providing exact angle measurements. In order to slope existing roofs...

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Which Is Better: StyleWriter Versus WhiteSmoke

Pitting StyleWriter against WhiteSmoke to determine which is “better” can produce conflicting results. Each has a different focus, method of delivery and cost, often making which product is better a...

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The iCal Events Disappear

One difference between wall calendars and electronic ones is that events don't just vanish off paper calendars. ICal, Apple's version of the iCalendar Internet format, gives owners of Macs, iPhones and...

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Bookmarks In SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software allows users to share content across corporate networks. If you find an interesting page or document on an Intranet or Internet site that you want to...

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Process Mapping Software for a Mac

Processing mapping software is designed to make planning and project management easier by providing users with access to customized digital flow charts, diagrams and analysis tools. Some process...

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What Is an ABBYY FineReader Sprint?

Users might recognize ABBYY FineReader Sprint as the application that comes bundled with their scanners and which appears by default when the user first installs the software CD. This optical character...

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How to Group Multiple Nonadjacent Worksheets With the Keyboard

You can use a combination of keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Excel 2010 to navigate the program, allowing you to group multiple nonadjacent worksheets with only your keyboard. This functionality is...

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How To Manage Your LinkedIn Contacts From Outlook

If you're like many busy professionals, you manage parts of your business networking through LinkedIn, which provides interaction opportunities among a nexus of connections you build among your...

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Will Crystal Reports XI Run on a 64-Bit?

SAP's Crystal Reports software suite, which caters mostly to business users, allows you to design interactive reports complete with hypothetical scenario models, graphical charts and external data...

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Where to Get a Free Copy of OpenOffice

A free productivity suite for Windows, Mac and Linux systems, OpenOffice can opening files created by Microsoft Office and other productivity suites. The suite is open source and includes word...

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How to Kill a SharePoint

Removing unnecessary files and other data from your server or computer helps to free up space and eliminate clutter. If you are working with Microsoft SharePoint, how you go about killing, or deleting,...

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How to Open Another Users Inbox or Calendar in Outlook

Monitor communications and upcoming events by accessing the calendar and inbox for other users in your organization. Microsoft Outlook lets you open another Exchange user's folders if he has granted...

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How to Retrieve Outlook Contacts From a Hard Drive

Microsoft Outlook contacts are stored in a single PST file or Outlook Data File. This file also contains emails, calendars and other data associated with your Outlook account. Copying the file to...

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How to Change the Order of the Fields in an Apple Address Book

Although you can add several fields of information about your contacts in Apple's Address Book application -- including URLs, birthdays and online profiles -- you may not like the order in which the...

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How to Draw a Border or Grouping With Visio

Learn to draw a simple border to work faster and more efficiently in Microsoft Visio. Users who create diagrams often waste time by moving, resizing and rotating shapes one at a time; if you draw a...

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Difference Between Sorting & Filtering Files

Your computer can get as cluttered as your junk drawer. Even with multiple folders and a complex file management strategy, finding a single file among your personal collection can take time. By sorting...

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How to Set a Default Inbox for Outlook 2010

Outlook automatically sets the first email account you add to the program as your default email address. When you click on the New Email button in Outlook or click an email link on a website, the...

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Can You Use Spreadsheets in OneNote?

Insert spreadsheets into your notebooks to enhance your notes and keep track of important information. In Microsoft OneNote 2013, you can insert an existing Excel spreadsheet directly into a page of...

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Difference Between Citrix Receiver and Online Plug-in

Citrix Receiver is the software you use on your own device to work remotely while connected to your organization's network. The Online plug-in is one of several tools that bring additional features; it...

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How to Read an XLA File

A file with the file extension XLA is a Microsoft Excel add-in file. XLA files are normally invisible to the user, except for the added functionality provided by the files. However, you can read an XLA...

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How to Correct Your Margins for Avery 5160 in Crystal Reports

Correcting label report margins for any label type in Crystal Reports is straightforward. Margins are independently controlled at the page and detail section levels. Page margins affect the top,...

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How to Edit VLookup

When you need to sift through large amounts of data to identify specific values in an Excel spreadsheet, the VLOOKUP command can save you hours of manually searching for information. Once you set the...

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How to Fill a Page of Labels With One Record in Crystal Reports

Filling a label report in Crystal Reports with one repeating data source record is not straightforward. Acting like a standard report, the selection of data from a data source assumes each successive...

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If Microsoft Word Is Not Printing the Bottom of the Page Border How Do I Fix It?

Microsoft Word 2010 provides customization features that can help improve the appearance of the documents you create. Among these features is a page border utility that you can use to add a border...

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How to Attach an iPhoto to an Email

IPhoto is Apple's photo editing and organizational software included with the iLife suite of programs bundled on every new Mac. iPhoto allows you to view thumbnails of your pictures and events, and...

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How to Create a Google Merchant Center Data Feed

The Google Merchant Center website provides a product upload service for online stores and retailers. The product feed information is displayed on Google Product Search and Commerce Search, giving you...

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Disadvantages of Google Apps

Google Apps allows you to create and access your documents from any computer with Internet access. It is cheaper than many other online apps alternatives, but with the pros come several major...

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How to Name a Module in VBA

Visual Basic for Applications, also known as VBA, is a programming language similar to Visual Basic that Microsoft includes with many of its Office products such as Word or Excel. In VBA, most of your...

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How to Search Emails in Lotus

IBM's Lotus Notes application includes features to access and manage documents, video libraries, personal information management and includes a full featured email client. The email client features...

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How to Embed an RTMP Stream

RTMP stands for Real Time Messaging Protocol. It is a protocol that lets you watch a live streaming while it is being recorded. RTMP delivers on-demand and live media to several Adobe Flash...

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How to Use Excel to Find Cumulative Frequency Distribution

A frequency distribution is a statistical tool that analysts use to summarize large data sets, gain insight into the nature of data and have a basis for creating important graphs such as histograms. A...

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How to Enter a Recurring Journal Entry in SAP

SAP is a business software suite that allows businesses to manage aspects of their operations, including entries regarding accounting. When a company conducts financial transactions, they need to keep...

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How to Hide Names in Track Changes

The document review tools in Microsoft Word 2010 make it easy for multiple individuals to collaborate on a document. Each reviewer of the document is assigned his own color, and any changes he makes...

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How to Add Bookmarks in Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver provides various menus, buttons and tools that can be used to add HTML elements to your Web pages. Bookmarks, technically called "anchors," are HTML data markers that provide convenient,...

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How to Troubleshoot Lync

Microsoft Lync is the company's newest program in instant messaging client services, replacing Windows Messenger. The software is available for Windows users, but Mac OS X users may use the companion...

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How to Get a Font Into the Outlines in Publisher

Microsoft Office programs, such as Publisher 2010, share different elements of the Windows 7 operating system to offer you choices within the program. One such shared element are the fonts installed on...

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How to Convert an OrCAD Layout to Allegro

OrCAD Layout is a tool developed by OrCAD to help users create complex printed circuit board layouts. Layout is integrated in a pack of design and simulation tools. By using OrCAD Layout, you can...

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How to Create a Radio Button on Lotus Notes

Radio buttons are an ideal graphical user selection element to add when designing interactive forms that require selecting between predefined options. Lotus Notes features the ability to include radio...

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How to Use CMYK Colors in Visio

Visio offers a diagramming package for the Microsoft Office Suite. You can create flow charts, process diagrams and other pictures in Visio with its built-in templates and diagramming tools. If you...

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How to Convert Excel Graphs to TIFFs

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that also enables you to create colorful data-driven charts and graphs. You can export Excel graphs to other file formats, such as TIFFs. The Microsoft Excel...

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How to Add a Comma in Notepad++

Adding a comma in Notepad++ is as simple as pressing the comma button on your keyboard. The real question that troubles most users of this free source-code editor revolves around how to add multiple...

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How to Create a VCF File of Group Contacts

Contacts that are stored in the Outlook and Address Book contact applications can be organized in groups of similar entries. The Outlook program does not let you save entire groups as a VCF file though...

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How to Make a Trifold Brochure in MS Works or OpenOffice

Word processing programs such as Microsoft Works and Open Office Writer giver users the ability to create custom brochures. Although a variety of templates are available for both program, neither has a...

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How to Run VBA in OpenOffice

OpenOffice includes limited support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros, which was first introduced in OpenOffice 3.0. VBA macros are commonly used with Microsoft Office and embedded in...

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How to Enter Euler's Number Into MATLAB

Euler's number is a mathematical constant known by the abbreviation "e." If you are creating a program in the Matlab software system you may need to utilize Euler's number as part of your calculations....

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How to Edit .Dat Files From Savegames

The .DAT files that contain the savegame data for many PC games can be edited using the Notepad program that is included as part of your Windows 7 installation. Other word processing programs attempt...

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How to Make a Chart in Mac

Mac's iWork software packages comes with powerful tools to keep track of sales or manage other aspects of a business. The Numbers program within iWork makes it easy to create and customize a chart to...

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How to Create a Visio Network Diagram From a Spreadsheet

You have an Excel spreadsheet with lines of data about your network. You would like to represent this information visually using a Visio network diagram without having to recreate the information. As...

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How to Embed YouTube Videos to Word 2011

Although Microsoft Word 2011 does not natively support embedding YouTube videos, you can work around this shortcoming by taking advantage of the multimedia support found in Microsoft PowerPoint. Unlike...

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What Is Spoon Sandbox Manager?

Spoon Sandbox Manager is the name that the Spoon plugin and Web browser extension is listed under in your computer's Control Panel. The program allows you to use Spoon applications on your computer,...

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