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How To : Convert text to table in Word 2007

This video demonstrates how to convert text to table in Word 2007. From the people who brought you the Dummies instructional book series, brings you the same non-intimidating guides in video form. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to convert text to table in Word 2007, Fo ...more

How To : Convert text to SmartArt in PowerPoint: Mac 2008

Dull and drab bulleted lists are no longer necessary with the help of PowerPoint 2008 for Mac. When you make a bullet list in PowerPoint, you can now transform those boring text charts with actual visual charts and graphs and more. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you j ...more

How To : Convert scanned documents (JPG, PDF) to text

Need a way to convert your scanned documents back into text files? Check out this video tutorial on how to convert scanned documents (JPG, PDF) to text. Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you su ...more

How To : Convert PDF Files to Text in Mac OS X

Automator is a built-in Mac utility found in Mac 10.4+ and can be used to convert a PDF file to text format. Video: . Below is the process of converting a PDF file to text format. Launch Finder -> Applications -> and double-click on the Automator application to open. Choose t ...more

How To : Transform text to speech to MP3 with DSpeech

his video is on Dspeech, a freeware tool that uses Microsoft's SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface) to convert text to spoken word. What's special about it is it lets you make an MP3 of the text, so you can listen to it on your computer, in you car or on your MP3 pl ...more

How To : Get up to speed with PowerPoint 2007

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 has a new design. The new Ribbon keeps the commands that you use most often visible while you're working instead of hiding under menus or toolbars that you have to hunt for. Also, commands that you may not have known about before are now very e ...more

How To : Distribute one cell across multiple cells in Excel

Storing information, such as a full address, in one column can limit what you can do with that information. For example, you can't easily filter or sort by part of the address, such as country/region or city. However, if you break up the address into its parts — street address ...more

How To : Make your Firefox browser smarter using SmarterFox

Check out this video tutorial on how to make your Firefox smarter using SmarterFox. Wikipedia sidebar SmarterFox adds a "related articles" sidebar to the left side of Wikipedia. The popup bubble appears when you select (or "highlight") some text on a web page. Clicking on it ...more

How To : Create a big to small text animation in Flash

A great free video training from tasktutorial on how to create a cool movie text effect in Flash. Start by creating the text; type in "cool", rename the layer and lock it. Now type "movie" and rename the layer. Type in "effect" and rename this layer as well. Now focus on the f ...more

How To : Create a simple movie poster in Photoshop

This video tutorial from TutVid shows how to create a simple movie poster text effect in Adobe Photoshop CS4. * First create a new file by clicking File-New. Set Width to 650 , Height to 960 and Background Contents to White. Click OK. * Press the 'G' button to grab the gradie ...more

How To : Shorten links with bit.ly

Link shortening is the process of cleaning up the URL link which is long and converting it into a short URL. You can use bit.ly to do link shortening. Using bit.ly you can not only shorten the link but also track the users who are using those links. To use this service go to t ...more

How To : Create a Trailer in iMovie '11

In this article I am going to show you how to quickly and easily make a professional looking trailer. All you need is the Apple product iMovie '11 and some footage to make the trailer with. You can follow along in the video tutorial or follow the instructions in the text bel ...more

How To : Convert an ebook file to ePub format in Mac OS X

If you use iBooks on your iPad or iPhone, you can only read books in EPUB format. If you have books in text or PDF format you may want to convert them to EPUB so you can read them in iBooks. You can do this with Calibre, a free open-source e-book library application. It's easy ...more

How To : Hack Flash Games

This is a tutorial showing you how to easily hack flash (.swf) games! You only need two things: A flash game (in .swf format) and Flasm (an amazing flash disassembler). Getting Flasm Download Flasm Flasm can be downloaded from the no|wrap.de website. Save & Extract Save ...more

How To : Extract Images and Text From PDF Files

Since PDF files are so popular in both our daily life and work, we see them everywhere. And sometimes we find there are terrfic images or text in the PDF files and we want to save them as seperate files for future use, such as in a presentation or post. Here's the question: ho ...more

How To : Place outlines around shapes in Illustrator CS2

In this Illustrator CS2 video tutorial you will learn to place outlines around shapes. Learn to use Offset Path and Pathfinder Subtract commands. Outlines can be applied to any vector shape, before outlining text you must first convert the text to shapes. http://www.video-tute ...more

How To : Create a simple flash button with sound in Flash

In this video by Task Tutorial we will learn how to create a simple flash button with sound. The first step is to create a text layer in flash, then convert your text into a button, then double click on the button to enter a sub menu and create a new layer for sound. Then simp ...more

How To : Create your own fonts & types in Illustrator

In this tutorial, user CollegeTut shows you how to customize the shapes of various fonts and text, essentially creating your own custom fonts, by converting the text of any font to outlines and then editing those outlines (bezier paths/strokes). You can modify the points on th ...more

How To : Work with text in Flash

In this Adobe Flash CS3 Professional video the instructor shows how to work with text. This video shows how to work with text in flash and various other tips. First open your flash and create the text. Now format the text using the formatting option and by setting the proper f ...more

How To : Make basic moving text in Adobe Flash

This video explains how to make basic moving text in Adobe Flash. First, insert the text in the top left corner of the stage area. Then convert the text to a symbol. After that you want to go to frame 30 in the timeline and insert the key frame. Then choose Create Motion Tween ...more

How To : Fit text to a curve in Xara Xtreme

For anyone experimenting with graphic arts and interested in learning how to wrap text to a curve in Xara Xtreme, this tutorial shows how to create this effect. The tutorial uses the example of a circle and shows step-by-step how to wrap words around the curvature of the circl ...more

How To : Place images inside text with Illustrator

Placing images inside text is nothing new. However, the old way involved converting the text to outlines first and thereby making the text uneditable. In this video you'll learn how to fill your text with an image while maintaining complete edit-ability of the text using Illus ...more

How To : Write a landing page that converts

Starting up a website can be daunting if you know nothing about web design or setup, but there are some tips to get the right people finding, looking, and returning to your site. A good landing page gives visitors exactly what they are looking for, and converts them from brows ...more

How To : Create a watermark from a logo in Photoshop

In this tutorial, learn how to convert a logo that was hand drawn and scanned, into a Photoshop custom shape with text and made a scalable vector watermark for your photography. This method is very useful so that no one will be able to claim or use your work as their own. Foll ...more

How To : Make a computer alarm clock using an RSS feed

In this how to video, you will learn how to make an RSS feed as an alarm clock. To do this, you can use the Microsoft speech program. Open the alarm batch file. Modify the Perl script so that it downloads the RSS feed from the Digg website. It will strip all the tags and html ...more

How To : Mask text using gradient in Flash

Want to learn how to mask text using gradient in Flash? In this 3 minute video, the viewers will learn just that. First of all, create the text that you want to mask. Next, prepare the gradient that you will be masking your text with, remember to set alpha to zero. Select the ...more

How To : Create a scroll text using buttons & actionscript

Tasktutorial teaches you how to create a scrolling text box using buttons and ActionScript in Flash. Create a dynamic text field and then right click and make it scrollable. Create scroll buttons using two simple rectangles. Convert those to buttons using shortcut F8. Click th ...more

How To : Stretch objects and text in Flash

In this video tutorial the author shows how to stretch objects and text in flash. To do this open the flash tool and select the radial gradient. Pressing shift key draws a shape. Go to frame 30 and create a key frame by pressing F6. Now similarly do it at frame 15. Now at fram ...more

How To : Make a fashion style logo animation in Flash

This short video shows you how to create an animated fashion style logo in Flash. First he changes the background and frames per second to black and 24 respectively. He chooses the font for his text and then he converts the text into a movie clipping by hitting f8 and choosing ...more

How To : Create an invisible button in Flash

Ever wondered about when your mouse moves over a website and some animation plays? Well, that's an invisible button. To create one, first type some text in Flash. Then create a new layer, draw some basic shape, and convert it to a button. Then double-click and create a new key ...more

How To : Create a simple text effect in Flash

In this video by Task Tutorial we learn how to create a simple text effect in Flash. The first step is to create the text you want to use. Then use CTRL-B to break apart and distribute to layers. Now, convert your letters into movie clips using the menu options. Then add key f ...more

How To : Map EDI data with MapForce

MapForce includes support for the two most popular EDI formats, UN/EDIFACT and ANSI X12. In this how-to video, you'll learn how to use MapForce to map and convert data between EDI messages (X12 and UN/EDIFACT) and XML, databases, or text files. Learn to map EDI data with this ...more

How To : Create a watermark in Sony Vegas

There are many uses to adding translucent text to your videos. None more important than that of ownership. Protecting your videos may or may not be important to you but since videos from YouTube can now be downloaded and converted in a matter of minutes, you may want to start ...more

How To : Create a sound on/off button in Flash

Tasktutorial teaches you how to create a sound on/off button using Flash. Name the first layer Actionscript. Go to frame 1, then window - actions. Add stop(); Go to frame 2, then window - actions. Add stopallsounds(); Create a new layer and select the text tool. Write off on. ...more

How To : Use Visual Basic to convert temperature units

In this video, we learn how to use Visual Basic to convert temperature units. To start, make two command buttons. After you have created these, make sure you label them. The first command button should say "celsius to fahrenheit" and the second should say "fahrenheit to celciu ...more

How To : Convert a Word document to PDF

In this how-to video, you will learn how to change a .doc file into a .PDF file. Open the document in Microsoft Office. Go to file and select print. Change the printing device to the CutePDF Writer. Click okay and save the file as whatever name you want. Once this is done, nav ...more

How To : Create a jumping letters animation in Flash

This video describes how to create a jumping letters in Flash, first create the text for example "JUMP" and using Break the letters each and then make the layer and now convert the letters into "Movie clips" and now we should add the key frames to our "time line”. Then moves t ...more

How To : Send video via MMS with your Motorola Droid

This video shows you how to easily send Video files via MMS (multimedia message) with your Motorola Droid. The first thing you have to do is select the contact you want to send the MMS to. Then, select Messaging in the popped up menu. Next, click on the Menu button, tap "Attac ...more

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