Writing documents in Microsoft Word™ is convenient and produces good looking results, but posting these documents to web sites presents a problem. Students who do not have a copy of Word installed can not view the documents. When a person without Word left-clicks on the link to the word document, they will be prompted to download the doc as a file. If they figure out how to download it and then try to open it, they will be presented with several unfriendly looking windows asking them how to open the file. This is more than enough to scare off the average student.
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Kid Pix® Deluxe 4™ for Schools is a major update of the best-selling education and creativity program. It was designed with extensive input from teachers and students to be the best personal productivity and creativity tool for every K–8 classroom.

In this version, teachers can control which graphic libraries are active for a project. This is ideal for theme-based teaching or special needs students. Teachers can add instructions to project templates, which students can listen to with the bilingual text-to-speech function.
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In Universal Type Server, all the fonts in the organization are consolidated into a single, secure location on a server. Fonts are managed as follows:
• The administrator subdivides the fonts into workgroups intended for specific types of users or projects
• The administrator decides which workgroups you need to access.
• You access workgroups, and the fonts within them, through the Universal Type Client application.
• Your user permissions control what you can do with fonts within each workgroup, including whether you can add fonts, share sets, change a font’s class, and more.
• Some users are font administrators, giving them more power over fonts.
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a more reliable way of transferring your files over the internet as opposed to attaching to emails. FTP is more secure, quicker, and your files are not “coded” or “mimed” as there is no need to rely on your email server. Follow the instructions below to FTP your files to Colortech Graphics and Printing.
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Why are style guides so frequently created, but so rarely successful? All too often, businesses ask for a style guide as a means to create a common look and feel, in the belief that it will solve usability problems and establish consistency between applications – only to be disappointed in the results. Even if such a style guide is followed carefully, the resulting interfaces may not meet usability goals.. This paper explores strategies for creating a style guide that is more than a simplistic rules book. By making the style guide part of the process, it can be used to promote a shared vision, to help the product meet business and usability requirements for consistency and…it may actually be used.
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Merging the power and usability of the two longstanding client-server font management solutions, Universal Type Server™ is the next generation of workgroup font management software. Written for the latest operating systems, this cross-platform system combines the power, speed, and control that administrators need with the seamless font delivery and elegant interface that users expect.
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Like all Microsoft Office products, Excel allows you to customise various settings to suit your own requirements. Whereas Microsoft Word has a default template called normal.dot, Excel has a special file called Excel.xlb in which your settings are stored. Note that not all settings are stored here, however - for example, each file has its own colour palette.
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You should be aware that MS Word has several built-in features designed to “autocorrect” the text. This is because the program is designed for business users (for the most part), and often these corrections will not be appropriate for academic papers. However, you should realize that this feature is a problem. Here is a partial list of stupid “auto-corrections” that you might encounter:
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