That's a question from ams. I gave him a short tutorial using Office 2007. I'm publishing it here as a starter post, hoping in the future I can post useful things for others :P. Sorry, it's a very simple tutorial on a very simple subject :P. Hey... at least it's useful for ams.
MS Word 07
1. Get ready with your document, either you create a new file or open an existing file.
2. Click Insert tab.
3. Click Picture button, the one with a picture of two mountains and a sun... a very familiar picture, yeah? We should sue Microsoft for using our childhood drawing without our permission.
4. Here comes an open-file-dialog. Browse and select an image file that you like as a background of your document.
5. Now, you have the picture in your page. Next thing you need to do is set its Text Wrapping property. You can do this by doing right-click on the picture and clicking Text Wrapping menu or you can simply click Text Wrapping button inside Arrange button group. Then choose Behind Text option.
6. You can add the text you want ON the picture. If you think that the picture is too dominant as a background, you can recolor the picture. All you need to do is right click on the picture, select Format Picture. After Format Picture dialog box is showing, select Picture menu at the left panel, click the button next to Recolor text, click a less apparent cloud-picture-button, and then click Close. If you still don't like it, set the transparency of your pic with your image editor before you insert it into your document.
MS Excel 2007
1. Get ready with your spreadsheet.
2. Click Page Layout tab.
3. Click Background button. Yeah, I know I know, we're gonna sue them for sure.
4. Browse and select the pic you want in the open-file-dialog, then click Insert.
et voila, your background is ready. Btw, don't use the Picture button inside Insert tab because there's no Text Wrapping property in Excel. Don't worry, Background button also use the same two-mountains-and-sun scenery that we love so much.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
How to set a background in my Excel spreadsheet and Word document?
Cat Spirit
Let it haunt all of you.....>:)
I love the color, though the dead cat we found at our backyard is white :P. I don't know what color is the one slaughtered by the demon dog.
Related stories:
Mysterious Dog
Dear Neighbors,
Sunday, February 25, 2007
All The King's Men
It almost be a great movie, but there's something missing, I couldn't figure it out... It's maybe the ending. Why did he shoot him? No strong background, not strong enough. So let me blame it on the bad script. And let me give the praise for Mr Sean Penn, a great actor indeed. I almost fell asleep watching the film and Willie Stark's oration kept my eyes wide open. Stark's smirk, Stark's eyes, Stark's walk, Stark's ... Stark's ..., all about Stark. Only the gestures of his hands that disturbed me. I couldn't help imitating it.
How about Mr Jude Law? I'm really sorry to say, his acting here is kinda plain :((. Sorry... :((. Still, I love his voice when he give the narration. I can capture the emptiness there, the sadness, the nothingness.
It could be a great movie, really...
Mysterious Dog
Sunday morning, while ams and I were working at our backyard I heard some women screamed. "Look! Look! The dog eat a cat."
... 5 minutes earlier.
"Uff! uff!" *a dog, barking*
"Ams... your friend's calling you" *me, smirking*
"Meow! meow!" *a cat, meowing*
"They must be fighting, hihi, it must be funny, oh oh reminds me of cat-and-dog" *me, thinking*
I looked over my fence and I saw a white-light brown dog. I don't like dog but I thought that time, "hmm, pretty cute dog". The owner must've just brought it here for I've never seen it before.
... back to the screaming.
Oh, terrible terrible... I wanted to see the horrible sight but I din't have a heart to :((.
A woman said, "The cat is already dead before the dog eat it. I'm sure of it". I wanted to yell, "No!!!!!!!! I heard its meow before. I didn't think that was a scream for a help, an SOS signal. Huuu, wished I know cat language or dog language". Poor poor cat, I'm sorry I didn't save you at the first place. Oh the spirit of mother cat, you won't be lonely anymore, here comes a new spirit of cat :((. Readers, read this post to know who mother cat is.
And who is the owner of the dog? Why didn't you show up? How awful! I bet you hide inside your house, grinning and thought, "let the dog take care of its problem."
Mind you, it's just an animal! Eating a cat is its instinct. It's you who supposed to give it a collar, not let it out until you're sure it won't bite people and their pet.
... the night after.
I heard howl of a dog, so near, and other dog, rather far. One after another. In my drowsiness I was convinced the one I heard very near was not a dog, but a wolf. And it ran in front of our house. Suddenly it became so quiet, horribly quiet. I was so afraid, hu hu. I had a feeling that this time I was the cat, I was its victim. Hu hu... I woke up and made sure ams was by my side. My foot seek his and touched its skin. I always do it in my childhood, when I was awake in the middle of the night and I was scared, I would sleep next to one of my sisters and made sure I touched their skin, even it was just my foot thumb that touched their skin :P. By doing that, I won't feel lonely anymore. I will feel secured.
Well, when I was sure that the dog has already ran into another area I felt relieved. Strangely, the quietness ended, in fact, it became unordinarily noisy with the sound of frogs and crickets and other night creatures, as if they're celebrating the moment that the demon has already gone.
Should I Quit My Job?
Hi95, I'm a coward... I hide the explanation of level 69%. It's 4 points higher than Joey's but it's basically in the same level ;)).
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
NH Dini's La Grande Borne
It's the latest episode of "Cerita/Serial Kenangan" of NH Dini, firstly published at the beginning of this year. It tells us the dark episode of Dini's life. She almost lost her spirit of life after she got a bad news about her lover, "the captain". Her misery brought some illness to her body. The health treatment and also the pain in her heart made her almost neglect Lintang and Padang who, meanwhile, were growing into self-reliant children.
I admire the way Lintang and Padang were brought up. Padang went to Trans-en-Provence from Paris by himself when he was only six years old! Of course his mom escorted him to the train and somebody was waiting on him at the destination station. But still, it's very young :P.
Now I'm waiting for the next book in this series. Lintang and Padang have become my favorite. Emm, I'm really sorry, Bu Dini... it's not that the story of your own life is not interesting for me anymore but would you put some more stories about them in your next book, please :">.
Bu Dini, I hope you stay healthy and continue telling us the beautiful story of your life.