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How to use a Pivot Table in Excel

By Traqqer

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One of the best kept secrets in database analysis is the Pivot Table tool in Excel. Using this tool, it is extremely easy to quickly group items and perform various summary calculations. Excel’s Pivot Table have allowed college graduate ... more »

How to Use a Reference in a Different Worksheet in Excel

By Melody

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Excel is very handy in it’s ability to link multiple spreadsheets together. Pulling data from multiple sources eliminates duplicate entry of data and increases work efficiency. A fellow Ehow member requested this article, so here’s my shot at it... more »

How to Use a Reference in a Different Worksheet in Excel

By Patricia Resnick

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In a Microsoft Excel worksheet, you can insert references, or hyperlinks, to outside sources, whether they are on the web, or other documents on your computer, including other worksheets. It's simple, and it makes it easy to cross-reference ... more »

How to Use Adobe Illustrator Art in Photoshop

By msmarymac

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You may find the need for using Adobe Illustrator art within your Photoshop projects. You can export an Illustrator file using the Photoshop file format. Doing this lets the Illustrator file retain its layers, masks and transparency. Photoshop ... more »

How to Use Advanced Photo Editing with Your Microsoft Digital Image Software

By momoftwingirls

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Do you have photos you wish you could combine into one photo to give to a family member or add to your photo album? Or maybe you want to take a photo of yourself and place you on a sunny beach. It's all just a few clicks away with advanced photo ... more »

How to use Aluminum Foil Bump Mapping Technique

By jdb67usa

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This is a technique my nephew inspired while playing around with aluminum foil. In February of 2006, at the age of 16, he came over to our house and showed us how he could copy wall patterns onto aluminum foil by rubbing it on the wall with a ... more »

How to Use an Array Class in Javascript

By Amanda Morin

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To some, Javascript is often viewed as a primitive and not particularly useful programming language. However, Javascript is actually a fully object-oriented language that runs in your web browser. Among its many features are data structures ... more »

How to Use an Image Editor Program

By Amanda Morin

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Image editor programs such as Paint.net, PaintShop or Photoshop are essential programs to know if you're going to be doing any digital image manipulation or photography. There are many features that are common to most image editing programs have ... more »

How to Use Apollo DVD Copy

By Stephen Lilley

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In recent years it has become easier than ever to burn and copy DVDs. With DVD-R drives becoming a standard on most new computers, choosing the burning software that does exactly what you want it to do can be a bit overwhelming. These programs ... more »

How to Use Apollo iPod Video Converter

By Stephen Lilley

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With the advent of the video iPod, it has never been easier to watch videos on the go. No longer are you limited simply to listening to music while on that long car or plane ride. Now you can bring along and enjoy some of your favorite movies, ... more »

How to Use Assets with Various Aspect Ratios in Adobe Premiere Pro

By msmarymac

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The Adobe Premiere Pro program automatically preserves the aspect ratio of imported assets, or footage, including changing the pixel aspect ratio, so that the asset does not look distorted when used in a sequence. However, assets created within ... more »

How to Use Audio Samples in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline

By msmarymac

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With Adobe Premiere Pro, you can edit audio clips much like you edit video. You can put different effects on it, mix as many tracks as your computer is able to hold,and each track can have channels of mono, stereo, or 5.1 surround. Here are the ... more »

How to Use AutoComplete in Microsoft Excel

By SeventhSibling

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AutoComplete is a default feature of Excel where text entries that you start to type in a column will automatically fill-in if the first few letters that you type match an entry already made in the column... more »

How to Use AutoFilter in Microsoft Excel

By SeventhSibling

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An Excel filter is a means through which to display only data that meets a set of conditions or criteria that you choose. Using the AutoFilter feature is a quick way to separate out just records that you want... more »

How to Use AutoSum in Microsoft Excel

By SeventhSibling

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The AutoSum function in Excel quickly calculates the total of a row or column of numbers so you do not have to enter a formula manually... more »

How to Use Bit Torrent with Utorrent

By CMorin

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This article shows how to use the bit torrent client uTorrent to download .torrent files. This is an easy to understand, step by step guide with lots of pictures to make it very easy to understand. This article shows how to download the torrent ... more »

How to Use Copy Constructors in C++

By eHow Computers Editor

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A copy constructor is a special member function inside a class. It accepts a reference to an existing object of the same class type and makes a deep copy of that object. A deep copy not only copies all member fields but also copies any ... more »

How to Use Custom Dictionaries in Microsoft Word

By eHow Computers Editor

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Microsoft Word comes with a default dictionary that it uses to find misspellings in your documents. However, if you frequently use a lot of non-standard terms in your work, you might want to create a custom dictionary. You can create multiple ... more »

How to Use Data Validation to Create a Pop-Up Message in Microsoft Excel

By SeventhSibling

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You can add a comment to an Excel cell, however, since there are different ways to display comments, it’s possible they may never be seen. This tip shows you how to use Data Validation in Microsoft Excel to add a pop-up message that gets noticed ... more »

How to Use Default Transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro

By msmarymac

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A “transition” in video editing is a visual devise placed between edits that can help a sequence move between cuts, shots and scenes. You will probably mostly use simple cuts to edit from shot to shot, but in other cases you may ... more »

How to Use Document View in Word

By SeventhSibling

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You can click on View in the top menu bar of Word to see the different document views available to you. An easier method to select views is to use the toolbar at the left end of the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of an open Word document. ... more »

How to use dos for virus

By nick582

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check for dos, check to see if you are infected.. more »

How to Use Dreamwever Search and Replace

By Richard Burke

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The "find and replace" feature in Dreamweaver is a powerful tool that allows you to find and replace text, code or objects. This feature also allows you to make changes to the current document, all documents within a folder or an ... more »

How to Use Excel's Ceiling Function

By eHow Computers Editor

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Excel's Ceiling function rounds the specified number away from zero to the nearest multiple of the specified significance. It is closely related to the Floor function and frequently used on dollar amounts to prevent inconvenient pricing. The ... more »

How to Use Excel's DAVERAGE Function

By eHow Computers Editor

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Excel's DAVERAGE function is short for "database average." It selects a set of values from a column of a database that matches the specified criteria. DAVERAGE then calculates the arithmetic mean of the selected values in the same manner as ... more »