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Friday, July 31, 2009 – Permalink –

Delete Days

Erase the future

If the need should arise to clean out your calendar and start fresh, here's how.
You don't have to erase all appointments. You can choose which groups deserve oblivion.

For Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Start Outlook 2003, and then click your Calendar folder.
On the View menu, point to Arrange By, click Current View, and then click By Category.
On the View menu, point to Expand/Collapse Groups, and then click Collapse All.
In the Table pane, right-click each category, and then click Delete. This deletes every item that belongs to each category.

After you delete all of the items in all of the categories, the Calendar folder is empty.
How to delete all Outlook Calendar items
Outlook 2007 appears to work the same way:

[Edited entry from 6/26/2006]

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Thursday, July 30, 2009 – Permalink –

Protected Spell Checker

Correct the protected

Unfortunately, Word's protection feature disables a huge number of important functions, even if you only protect a single section of a document.

Besides the spellchecker, many other items on the View, Insert, Format, Tools and Table menus are disabled, as well as most items on the Drawing, Database, Visual Basic and Picture toolbars.

This MS Word MVP FAQ Site article lays out the steps needed to

Enable the spellchecker in a protected document.

One of the important elements is "NoReset=True". The act of removing and then re-protecting a document will reset the data without this line.

In Office 2007 Protection is found on the Review tab:

[Edited entry from 6/25/2006]

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 – Permalink –

Test Your Web Site

How does your site score?

Here are a collection of tools that can be used to analyze your web site for validity.

Sorry, it doesn't check for source information reliability.

Readability Test

The readability test analyses a Web page to determine how readable it is.

CSS Analyzer

The CSS analyzer tests for basic accessibility errors such as color contrast and units of measurement.

Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyzer (Beta)

Tests whether foreground and background colour combinations are sufficient using a new algorithm developed by Trace R&D Center.

Color Contrast Analyzer

The color contrast analyzer tests whether the contrast between the background and the foreground is sufficient.

Image Analyzer

The image analyzer tests Web pages to ensure that images have been specified properly.

Link Analyzer

The link analyzer lists all links on a page with an icon to indicate whether or not the link resolved successfully.

Juicystudio.com:
Quality Assurance

[Edited entry from 6/23/2006]

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Labels: Expression Web, FrontPage, HTML, Internet

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 – Permalink –

Stop Spock Salute

No more three fingers

If you are tired of crunching down three keys to logon your machine, here is the way to get rid of Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

It does involve a registry hack so be careful and back up the entries before doing this.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value Name: DisableCAD
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = Require Ctrl+Alt+Delete, 1 = Disable)

For more tricks try
Winguides.com:
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete Before Logon

[Edited entry from 6/22/2006]

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Monday, July 27, 2009 – Permalink –

And the Audience Slept on

Are you the only one awake?

When you prepared your talk you were sure that everyone would be excited to hear it.

"I sat in the back of the classroom, observing and taking careful notes as usual. The class had started at one o'clock. The student sitting in front of me took copious notes until 1:20. Then he just nodded off. The student sat motionless, with eyes shut for about a minute and a half, pen still poised. Then he awoke, and continued his rapid note-taking as if he hadn't missed a beat."

Perhaps you need more than PPT slides and a hoary joke.

"Adult learners can keep tuned in to a lecture for no more than 15 to 20 minutes at a time, and this at the beginning of the class. . .
As the lecture proceeded attention spans became shorter and often fell to three or four minutes towards the end of a standard lecture."

Both of these studies note the severe lapse of attention 15 to 20 minutes into a lecture. Given that students have an attention span of around 15 to 20 minutes and that university classes are scheduled for around 50 or 75 minutes, instructors must do something to control their students' attention. We recommend building a "change-up" into your class to restart the attention clock.

Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish
Teaching Resources Center
Indiana University

The National Teaching & Learning Forum:
The "Change-Up" in Lectures

[Edited entry from 6/21/2006]

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Sunday, July 26, 2009 – Permalink –

Fiscal Year in Access

Make up your own year

You can show a custom Fiscal Year starting June, 1 and ending May 31.

BeginFiscalYr = DateSerial(Year(Date), 6, 1)

EndFiscalYr = DateSerial(Year(Date) + 1, 6, 1) - 1

Also:
Calculating a future or past date in Access

[Edited entry from 6/19/2006]

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Saturday, July 25, 2009 – Permalink –

Multiple Mail Drag

Quick trick

To send an e-mail message to a number of people in your Contacts file, hold down the CTRL key and select the individual recipients.

Drag the selection to the Inbox icon on the Outlook bar.

A new blank pre-addressed e-mail form will open for you.

If you wish to schedule an appointment, drag the selection to the Calendar icon.

The definitive site for more information about Outlook is:

Slipstick.com

[Edited entry from 6/18/2006]

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Friday, July 24, 2009 – Permalink –

May I Comment on Your Balloon?

Markup stuff

How to turn off balloons for comments and track changes in Word.

This article describes how to turn off the balloons that appear for comments and track changes in the right side margin of your Microsoft Word 2002 or Microsoft Office Word 2003 document.

To turn off or hide the balloons for comments and track changes in the right side margin of a Microsoft Word document, follow these steps:

On the Tools menu, click Options.

On the Track Changes tab, do one of the following:

In Word 2003, change the Use Balloons (Print and Web Layout) box to Never.

In Word 2002, click to clear the Use Balloons in Print and Web Layout check box.

Click OK to close the Options dialog box.

Note This process only hides the balloons for comments and track changes. These steps do not remove any changes.

Frequently Asked Questions About Comments Using Tracking and Reviewing Features in Microsoft Word 2002/XP Tutorial
In 2007:

[Edited entry from 6/17/2006]

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Thursday, July 23, 2009 – Permalink –

Excel VBA Help File

Download from Microsoft

Here is a downloadable compiled Help file covering the vagaries of Excel VBA.

You can use this file without having to, necessarily opening the application.

Excel 2003 VBA Language Reference

[Edited entry from 6/16/2006]

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 – Permalink –

Automated Newsletter

ASP and HTML

Pre-RSS, the predominate method of communication for members of a like minded group was through an emailed newsletter.

Word actually works fine with mail merge to email, but if you want to combine the data gathering and the distribution in a neat package, take a look at this tutorial.

Step 1 : Create a simple HTML Form where users can insert their email addresses and an ASP page which will receive the Form email address from the HTML page and insert it into the database.

Step 2 : Create a simple Access database to store user's email addresses.

Step 3 : A simple admin ASP page from where you can send email messages to all the users whose email addresses are present in the database.

Step 4 : An ASP page from where the users can delete their email addresses from the database if they later choose to.

Stardeveloper.com:
An ASP Tutorial to create your own News Letter

[Edited entry from 6/15/2006]

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Labels: HTML, Internet

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 – Permalink –

Free Fonts, Free Drinks

Typographic connections

Fonts can be addictive. There can always be an imagined need for one more curly Q.

Here is a collection of possible links.

Luc Devroye joined the School of Computer Science at McGill University in 1977 as a young "snotnose."

" Please do not visit this disappointing web site. Most of the links are dead: they die faster than I can renew them, and there is nothing I can do about it short of giving up my daytime job and divorcing my family, and I love both of them too much for that.

Many link descriptions are boozy and fuzzy. Some opinions are simply pathetic, but I do not want to leave this world without making a fool of myself. To make up for the awful service, I am inviting any type lover visiting Montreal to my house for drinks."

Type Design, Typography, Typefaces and Fonts

[Edited entry from 6/14/2006]

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Monday, July 20, 2009 – Permalink –

I Need More Guides

Line it up straight

A slide looks best when the objects line up correctly. While it can be done by trial and error, it is easier to use the Grid and Guides feature.

Go to View>Grid and Guides.

Choose to put a check to select Display grid on screen and/or Display drawing guides on screen.

If you like using guides, you can produce additional guides by holding the CTRL key while dragging on an existing guide.

Extraneous guides can be dragged of the screen.

In 2007 in the Drawing group on the Home tab:

[Edited entry from 6/13/2007]

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Sunday, July 19, 2009 – Permalink –

Your Grand-cestors Swore

Your Grandmothers told them to stop

What is there about a well placed curse that spices a novel or a conversation?
Perhaps it's genetic or evolutionary.

"The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood" - offensive contractions of "God's wounds" and "God's blood" - or some wondrous sexual pun.

Even the quintessential Good Book abounds in naughty passages like the men in II Kings 18:27 who, as the comparatively tame King James translation puts it, "eat their own dung, and drink their own piss."

Almost before we spoke

Refered to by:
LanguageHat.com
The Antiquity Of Cursing

[Edited entry from 6/12/2006]

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Saturday, July 18, 2009 – Permalink –

Auto Form

Just add Data

Highlight a Table in the Objects Table view.

Go to the main menu bar and click on Insert.

Towards the bottom of the menu, you'll find an entry for
"AutoForm"

Click on it and Access will create a data entry form based on the selected table.

When you close the AutoForm, you will be asked if you want to save changes.
Click Yes.

(In 2007 go to Create>Form)

The default name will be the name of the table. If you are using Hungarian notation, change the name from

"tblCustomers" to "frmCustomers"

and click OK.

Also see:
Hungarian Notation

[Edited entry from 6/9/2006]

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Friday, July 17, 2009 – Permalink –

Save Clean Document

Protect your layout

Sometimes a Word document does not open as well laid out as you intended.

The page numbers may be off (the numbers may be repeated).

Formatting marks may be displayed (not a big thing, but not neat).

This can happen if:

You open the document from a Microsoft Outlook e-mail attachment.
The Allow starting in Reading Layout option is turned on in Word.
The table of contents in the document is three or more pages long.
The document was saved in the page layout view.

Microsoft offers these suggestions to prepare your baby for its best look. When you send a Word document as an e-mail attachment, make sure that you save the document in normal view before you send the document. Turn off reading layout view

Start Word.
On the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the General tab, click to clear the Allow starting in Reading Layout check box, and then click OK.

Turn off all formatting marks

Start Word.
On the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the View tab, click to deselect the All check box under Formatting marks, and then click OK.

Manually update all the page numbers

Open the Word document.
Select the table of contents in the document, and then press F9 to update all the page numbers.

Support.Microsoft.com
The page numbers in the TOC are incorrectly displayed

[Edited entry from 6/9/2006]

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 – Permalink –

Access-Excel-XML-HTML

Transfer data

XML makes data transferable between applications.
Here is a tutorial with downloadable files.

Some simple guidance of how to transfer data from Excel or Access into HTML web pages using XML data files. VBA programs can be used to export data tables from Excel or Access into simple XML files. There are several examples of using different methods to display the XML and XSL files on web pages in order to quickly share your data with others.

An introduction to Excel and XML data files

Also:
Some nice photos and calendar layout:
Monthly calendar with photos

[Edited entry from 6/8/2006]

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Labels: Access, Excel, HTML

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 – Permalink –

Restore Defaults

Office 2003 redo

To reset the original settings in Office 2003, follow these steps.
Make sure that you back up your files before you follow these steps.

1. Start any Office 2003 program.
On Help menu, click Detect and Repair.
Click to select the Discard my customized settings and restore default settings check box, and then click Start.
Quit the application, and then click Ignore.
Click OK when you receive the following message:
Reset of setting to default succeed.

Microsoft Office Diagnostics in 2007 replaces Diagnose and Repair:

Howtogeek.com

[Edited entry from 6/7/2006]

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Labels: Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – Permalink –

Print Problems

Some clues

"You've finished your report, presentation, or cost analysis using a Microsoft Office program. The information is rich with data and detail. Now comes the final step: printing it and showing the world your hard work on paper. This is the point at which printing can give you a headache. Right when you want to wrap up your work, project, or school assignment, questions start popping into your mind"

Troubleshoot your printing problems in Office

[Edited entry from 6/6/2006]

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Monday, July 13, 2009 – Permalink –

Simple Shows

In brevity is success

Blogger/entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki is in league with the minimalist branch of the PowerPoint society.

Tired of sitting through mind and body numbing presentations by people more interested in technique than content, he is evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.

"A PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points."

If "thirty points," is too dogmatic, the I offer you an algorithm: find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That's your optimal font size.

10/20/30 Rule

[Edited entry from 6/5/2006]

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Sunday, July 12, 2009 – Permalink –

Plain Numbers

I'd Like to Make It Clear

Plain Figures is a method of transforming statistical and financial data into figures, tables and graphs that people readily understand.

Have you ever:

squinted your eyes trying to see the numbers in a PowerPoint presentation?
scratched your head at a charity leaflet with an indecipherable pie chart titled 'Where your donation goes' ... and set it aside?
missed discussion at a meeting because you were busy trying to figure out the figures?
put aside a graph or table, thinking "I'm not good with numbers."?

Then you know how important the clear display of numerical information can be. Common problems People have trouble using numerical information for many reasons. Most commonly, authors don't know:

what to include: when unsure what numbers are important, people frequently display them all, overpowering the reader with irrelevance.
which format to use: the choice between text and table, table and chart, bar and pie.
how to use the technology effectively: computer software generates graphs easily, but the results hide your point behind incomprehensible chartjunk.
how to explain the information: selecting the right words for titles, columns and captions.

Plain Figures is a partnership between Sally Bigwood, located in Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK, and Melissa Spore, who divides her time between Toronto and Saskatoon, Canada. Sally and Melissa are sisters and both have dual citizenship in the United States. PlainFigures.com [Edited entry from 6/4/2006] See all Topics

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 – Permalink –

A Hoard of Tips

Good for all levels of user

Allen Browne's tips for Access users

Here is a list of the sections on this site; something for everyone.

Casual Users - basic tips and explanations;
Serious Users - ideas for forms, combos, reports, and code;
Flaws in Access - unfixed bugs that will bite you;
Traps to avoid - problems that may not be obvious;
Specific Applications - a couple of examples where people get stuck;
Tips for xBase developers - for people who used the old dBase;
Functions you can use - code to copy;
Upgrading - issues when changing versions;
Other sites - links to other sites with free Access tips.

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Friday, July 10, 2009 – Permalink –

Delegate Delete Deliveries

Choose the folder

When you delete items from a Mailbox folder of another user where you have deletion privileges, the deleted items go into your Deleted Items folder rather than that of the mailbox owner.

Here are the steps to change that procedure:

Exit and Logoff Outlook

Click Start, and then click Run
Type regedit, and then click OK
Locate the registry key that is appropriate for your version of Outlook
For Outlook 2003:
```
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\General
```
(Use 12.0 for 2007 etc.)
Right-click the DelegateWastebasketStyle value, and then click Modify

If the key is not present, use the following steps to create it:
1. Right-click the General folder
2. Point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
3. Type DelegateWastebasketStyle, and then press ENTER
4. Change the value data in the Edit DWORD Value dialog box to one of the following values:
  8 = Stores deleted items in your folder
  4 = Stores deleted items in the mailbox owner's folder
  
  NOTE: Make sure that the delegate user has at least Author level rights for the Deleted Items folder of the owner's mailbox.
Quit the Registry Editor
Restart Outlook

Support.microsoft.com:
Items deleted from a shared mailbox go to the wrong folder in Outlook

[Edited entry from 6/2/2006]

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Thursday, July 09, 2009 – Permalink –

Echo Document Data

Enter once — use again

Enter data in one place in a document and have it repeated elsewhere.

There comes the time when you need to enter a clients name at the beginning of a document and you know that it will be repeated again many other places.

Greg Maxey has collected a number of ways to make the task easier.

Repeating Data

[Edited entry from 6/1/2006]

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 – Permalink –

Polyglot Polynomials

ToolPak Translator

I was disappointed recently when I tried to look up Eric Desart's ToolPak translator. I found his site "niet beschikbaar."

I won't use the boy and wet thumb story, but Ron de Bruin did spring up to save the day and make the download available.

"Ever wanted an oversight of the Analysis-ToolPak Add-In functions, their descriptions, their arguments, their VBA and Procedure names, and all of this in your LOCAL language including translations versus the corresponding English names?

This utility extracts this data from your LOCAL MS Excel edition.

As such this table can be generated for ANY LANGUAGE EDITION of MS Excel, even when this language is not yet integrated in the utility."

Analysis ToolPak Translator

[Edited entry from 5/31/2006]

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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 – Permalink –

Photo Blog

Daily shots

I don't see it mentioned very often, but Webshots.com has been expanding its offerings. They have a free screensaver/desktop background application.

They also have a spot to upload your own pictures.

Recently they started a Blog with a new shot each day.

Blog.Webshots.com

"With 7.2 Million monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos to explore, Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites.

Webshots provides you with a variety of ways to enjoy photos and videos:

Free and premium memberships with tons of storage—you'll never run out!
Webshots provides you with a variety of ways to enjoy photos and videos:

Share photos, videos and slideshows on Webshots and your personal website.

Download professional photos in Webshots Pro Shots.

Access Webshots on the go with Webshots Mobile.

Easily manage your online photos with the FREE Webshots Desktop.

Order prints and make custom photos gifts that anyone will love.

And more! "

Webshots! Over 20 MILLION FREE screen saver and wallpaper photos!

[Edited entry from 5/30/2006]

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Monday, July 06, 2009 – Permalink –

Re-color Transparent

Change clip art

Re-color

Select a piece of clip art in WMF (Windows Meta File) format .

The Picture toolbar should appear.
(If the bar does not pop up, go to View>Toolbars and click on "Picture".)

Move the mouse pointer over the toolbar icons until you find "Recolor Picture". Click on the icon.

(In 2007, it is located under Format in the Adjust group on the left."Recolor>Set Transparent Color")

You can now change any of the fill or line colors in the image.

Transparent

If the graphic is in BMP (Bitmap) format, there is an icon on the Picture toolbar to "Set Transparent Color".

Click the icon then click on the color in the image that you would like to make transparent.

Also:

Indezine:
Recolor Clip Art in PowerPoint
by Geetesh Bajaj

Semi-Transparent Images
By Glen Millar PPTWorkbech.com
You can produce various levels of semi-transparent images for applications right within PowerPoint, save them, and keep them for reuse.

AwesomeBackgrounds.com:
Tutorial about the transparency options in PowerPoint

[Edited entry from 5/26/2006]

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Sunday, July 05, 2009 – Permalink –

What if the Truth Teller Fibs?

Who ya gonna believe?

Snopes.com is a great source for answers about urban myths, legends and computer hoaxes.

These articles appear on the Snopes site:

TRUE: The Mississippi state legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the mathematics curriculum of public secondary schools.

FALSE: The restaurant chain formerly known as "Kentucky Fried Chicken" changed its name to KFC to eliminate the word "fried" from its title.

TRUE: At the moment the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship.

After you stop shaking your head, look at the bottom left corner of the page and click on "More information about this page."
False Authority Syndrome

[Edited entry from 5/27/2006]

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Saturday, July 04, 2009 – Permalink –

Get Hooked Up

Link to apps in Outlook

The Outlook bar is handy to jump from Mail to Contacts to Calendars, but you can do more with it.

If you can locate the EXE of a program, it can be dragged to the Outlook bar to create a shortcut.

Here is a collection of more things that can be done with hyperlinks.

Slipstick.com:
Using Microsoft Outlook Links

[Edited entry from 5/26/2006]

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Friday, July 03, 2009 – Permalink –

CSS, PHP, and all that stuff

Collections of suggestions

Under the belief that more information leads to more understanding, here is a site that may help you round the corners of web design and function. Besides CSS templates there are PHP code nibblets.

In 2003 artypapers was created by R. Marie Cox as a springboard for ideas and a working space of technical implementation -- a place to test and build an extendable collection of core classes (alliteration!) that acts as an application framework for a diverse set of projects and applications.

artypapers.com

Also:
Links and Discussion About the Best CSS Resources Available on the Web.
CSS Help Pile

[Edited entry from 5/22/2006]

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 – Permalink –

Watermelon Pickles

Actually quite good

Cut a watermelon into slices (for best results, use a melon that's not overly ripe).
Cut the rind off the pink portion and cube the flesh.
Soak the watermelon cubes overnight in brine made by dissolving 2 Tbsp. of pickling salt in 1 qt. water.
In the morning, drain the brine off the melon cubes.
Put a dill head and stem (or a couple of teaspoons of dill seed) in each quart jar. If you desire, also add a hot pepper (chili) and whole allspice and/or mixed pickling spice to each quart.
Bring to a boil 1 cup white vinegar, 2 cups water, and 1/2 to 1 cup granulated sugar (try the smaller amount first and increase the amount if you decide you like your watermelon pickles sweeter).
Pour the pickling solution boiling hot over the melon in the jars, filling them to 1/2 inch of the top of the jars.
Wipe the rims and seal the jars with sterilized lids and rings.
Process in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, just long enough so the contents won't ferment. (If you process the pickles too long, they will be too soft.)

Here's the Volga Deutsch site:

Getting in a pickle

[Edited entry from 5/18/2006]

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 – Permalink –

Word Converters

Pick a flavor

There are fewer word processing formats to worry about than there used to be.
For those that remain, MS Word provides "translators" or converters.

The following file formats are built into Word.

Web page

Web page, Filtered

Web Archive

Plain Text

Encoded Text

Rich Text Format (RTF)

XML

Recover Text (import only)

The following text converters are set to the Run from My Computer installation state.

Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 RTF Converter

Recover Text Converter

Word 97 for Windows/Word 98 Macintosh

The following text converters are set to the Installed on First Use installation state

WordPerfect 6.x Converter

WordPerfect 5.x Converter

Microsoft Works for Windows 7.0

Support.Microsoft.com
Description of the text converters that are available with Word 2003

Additional text converters and image filters are available in the Microsoft Office File Converter Pack

[Edited entry from 5/16/2006]

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