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It's neither a bird, nor a plane, nor Superman. The giant object now appearing next to the planet Mercury remains a mystery. UFO followers believe it could be an alien ship. Scientists, however, aren't convinced. The object appears in a number of ... images taken by a NASA telescope named Heliospheric Imager-1, which was focused on a coronal ejection from the Sun. In a sequence where the telescope observes a solar flare, viewers can clearly see a massive circular object moving around in the frame. YouTube Video Arouses Speculation Video of the object next to Mercury has been posted to YouTube, ... (view more)

Someone recently told me that she really enjoyed creating presentations for her company training sessions, but she really wished there was a way to truly emphasize a graphic, chart, text, etc. to make it really stand out on the screen when she is ... teaching. She was surprised and delighted when I told her that I could show her a way to make an object grow right before the eyes of her students! Follow the steps below so that you can incorporate this into your next presentation: Select the object you would like to optimize and emphasize. In the Slide Show menu, click on Custom Animation. Click on ... (view more)

I think we all know that to create a copy of an object on a PowerPoint Slide, in an Excel worksheet or in a Word document, you use copy and paste from the menu or a keyboard shortcut. But what most of you may not know is that there is a smarter way ... to make a copy and align it at the very same time! To copy an object using keyboard shortcuts and the mouse, select the object you would like to copy by clicking on it. Now, depress and continue to hold down the CTRL key as you click and hold the left mouse button and drag the object to a new position. PowerPoint, Excel, and Word add a copy of the ... (view more)

Lines are used for all graphics in MS Excel. Lines are typically used to outline the shape, but you can also use them for arrows and for drawing directly on your worksheet. Excel allows you to specify the color or pattern that should be used for ... your lines. To change the line color used in an object, follow the steps below for a version prior to 2007: Make sure the Drawing toolbar is displayed. Click once on the object whose line color you want to change to select it. Click on the Line Color tool o n the Drawing toolbar. The color of the lines in the object are changed to the color used in ... (view more)

When you first draw a shape, it appears empty, with a thin black border. You can add color, shading and fill effects to a selected shape by using the Fill Color button. Click the Fill Color button to see the menu. Here you can click a color to fill ... the shape, or click More Fill Colors to get a dialog box offering even more colors. After you've selected a color, you can add fill effects. Click the Fill Effects button on the Fill Color menu to see the Fill Effects dialog box. On the Gradient tab, you can choose to shade from one color to another. The Texture tab offers a selection of realistic ... (view more)

The buttons on the Drawing toolbar have useful tools for -- what else? -- drawing objects, such as shapes and lines. Not only can you make simple squares, circles, ovals, and lines, but MS Word provides AutoShapes, a gallery of typical shapes such ... as stars, pentagons, block arrows, etc. A special type of AutoShape, a callout, combines a text box and indicator line and is used to attach explanatory text to a specific part of the document, much as a speech balloon in a comic strip attaches to a character, or a label points to part of a cell or organism in a biology diagram. Other buttons on the ... (view more)

The Paste Special command can also be used to link an Excel worksheet. In contract to embedding, linking sets up a link between the worksheet cells in the document and the original Excel worksheet source. The MS Word document holds an image of the ... Excel worksheet and a shortcut to it but not an actual copy of the worksheet. Because of the link, any changes in the original are automatically reflected in the MS Word document. The advantage to linking the worksheet is that if the source worksheet in Excel changes, the values are automatically updated in the Word document. If you make a change in ... (view more)

The buttons on the Drawing toolbar have useful tools for drawing objects, such as shapes and lines. Not only can you make simple squares, circles, ovals, and lines, but Word provides AutoShapes, a gallery of typical shapes such as stars, pentagons, ... block arrows, and so forth. Word 2002 (and later) comes with a wealth of AutoShapes that you can use to build flow charts, room plans, and banners for your letterheads. These AutoShapes come with sizing handles that appear when you select the object. By manipulating the sizing handles with the mouse, you can change the size, shape and position of ... (view more)

Need to copy an object quickly and easily using PowerPoint? Instead of using Cut and Paste, try this method instead: Single left-click the object you want to copy (this will select the object). Hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard. Now, hold down ... the left mouse button with the CTRL key and drag the object to the new location. It's simple. It's quick! Now try the above steps again -- but this time, press the Shift key at the same time as the CTRL key; the result will have objects aligned to each other -- particularly useful if you have many objects on the screen that need to be arranged in ... (view more)