Knowledge is Power: Information Security Training
Centra Central -new Friday Onlines
Tips for using the Google™ Search Engine
Adding Links with Adobe Acrobat Professional
News and Updates
TExAS is here! Texas Extension Accountability System training continues!For more details or information visit
http://extensioneducation.tamu.edu/
The Brazos Valley Macromedia Users Group -Summer Wilson The Brazos Valley Macromedia User’s Group will meet Oct. 18th from 11:45 to 1:00pm at MicroAge in College Station.For more information visit
http://bvmmug.tamu.edu
The Brazos Valley Web Guild -Summer WilsonThe Brazos Valley Web Guild will meet on Nov. 4th. For more information visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bvweb/
Centra Central
The Friday Online series has been extended through June 2006.
Topics in the series include Work Life Balance, Managing Con-flict, Marketing an Educational Program, Using the Web to Communicate Effectively, Being an Effective Educator- Aids to En-hancing Learning, and Distance Education- Design and Delivery, among others. Supervisor-specific topics are also scheduled, including Interviewing.
The events are listed in the Friday Online folder in Centra and they are open for enrollment.
Enroll or browse upcoming events or learn more about Centra by clicking the Centra Symposium link from the EIT webpage or going directly to http://eit.tamu.edu/centra.html .
Playback any of the 100+ recorded sessions from the Public Recordings link at http://centra.tamu.edu/main/tce .
Web Info
Possible URLs to link from your Websites this Month
FCS -National Breast Cancer Awareness Month - http://www.nbcam.org/promote_nbcam.cfm
AG and Natural Resource -Texas Wine - http://www.agr.state.tx.us/wine/
4H -Technology Team - http://tx4-h.tamu.edu/technology/
Google™ It ! (Tips for using the Google™ Search Engine) by Wendy Wolfington
The amount of information being added to the internet There are many ways to do a “search” in Internet each day is phenomenal. Imagine being at the rim of the browsers. There are probably just as many shortcuts for Grand Canyon and needing to find a specific type of rock searching. Here’s a useful shortcut when using Mozilla located at the bottom. You get the idea.
Thankfully, If you see a word on a website and want to look it instigator of this information overload is also the solution. up: Computerized on-line search engines, such as Google™, • Highlight the word or phrase with your mouse and can have that bit of knowledge in your hands within then right-click on it moments - but only if you ask the right question. Google’s • Choose “Search Web for” on-line primer provides the “how to” for conducting • A Google™ search containing the highlighted word/ specific searches, that yield the information you need. Find phrase will be automatically brought up in in a new tab it here: http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Tip of the Month: Adding Links with Adobe Acrobat Professional by Jennifer Jahedkar
Links can add a lot to an Adobe Acrobat document and there are a couple of ways to create links. If text was formatted as a link, Acrobat may be able to easily make it clickable for you. With Adobe Acrobat Professional open, go to Advanced, Links and choose to Create from URLs in document. Choose all pages, click ok, and then watch Acrobat do its magic. When you see an indication of how many links were added click ok.
That probably won’t make any email addresses clickable, and there may be more links to add. To add links, first make sure the Advanced Editing toolbar is open by going to View, Toolbars and ensuring there’s a check next to advanced Editing. The tools you’ll need are there, including the link
To make a link you’ll have to select what (text, image…) you want to be clickable, and then indicate what will happen when it is clicked. First, click to select the link tool and bring the mouse pointer to the point where the link will appear in the document. Notice that the pointer changes, indicating that you’re to draw a box around the item to be clickable. Once you draw the box you’ll get a dialog box to specify what the link will look like and will happen when it is clicked.
Click the radio button marked Open a web page and type in a URL or enter an email address with “mailto:” in front of it, as figure 3 shows Then click OK.
By default a link will have a visible rectangle around it. To make it invisible, double click on the new link - with the link tool selected- to open the Link Properties dialog box. Click on the Appearance tab and choose the Invisible Rectangle Link Type. Note the other appearance options that can be selected as well, as in figure 4. Click Close.
To check the links, click the hand on the basic toolbar to get the hand tool and bring the mouse pointer into the document. Note when it is over a clickable area a tool tip, shown in figure 5, will indicate where the link will go. Don’t be guilty of sending a boring PDF, spruce it up by adding links with Adobe Acrobat Professional.