Scrolling through a long font list in search of a particular font is a definite waste of time. To eliminate this extra scrolling hassle, Illustrator makes it easy to locate the font you want. Here’s how to do it. To quickly change your font without scrolling:

1. Select the text you want to change the font of.
2. Click to the left of the font name in the Control palette or Character palette.
3. Type the first letter or two of the font name you want.
4. Your font will jump to the first font that matches the letters you typed.

In the October 2008 issue of the Elevate:

Microsoft Office Productivity
Convey hard data without weighing down your PowerPoint presentation design

Information Systems Protection
Take the guesswork out of choosing your Vista path and Nail down new tools and terms for Windows Vista deployments

Design, Media & Graphics
Three image resolution myths debunked

Simply click here to access the October issue of Elevate.

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Looking for a way to protect your Web servers from unauthorized access?

Microsoft has a utility called URLScan that can be used to filter out suspicious requests such as those that are very long or use an alternate character set. You can download this utility by going to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc242650.aspx.

Before you use this utility, though, keep in mind that you’ll need to have installed the latest Service Pack and any subsequent hotfixes on your server. You can make sure that your server has the latest updates by going to the Windows Update site at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.

A common misconception, especially among some folks with little XML experience, is that once you specify a DOCTYPE for a data set, that is the one you must always use, even if you're working with a subset of the document. This often leads to extracting the subset you want, adding upper level wrappers to match the DOCTYPE, and finagling things to get it to parse. Others will write custom DTDs to handle the subset.

It isn't necessary to jump through these hoops. Remember that the DOCTYPE declaration names the root element and points to the cooresponding DTD. The key here is that it points to the root element of the *document*, not the first element defined in the DTD.

For example, a journal DTD may define its upper content model like this:


So the DOCTYPE for the full data set would be:



However, say you want to send just a single article to a customer, but they want to be able to validate it against the DTD. You don't need to modify the DTD or add upper level wrappers to the article; just change the DOCTYPE from "journal" to "article".



It reads the same DTD, but only those elements which fall within the given DOCTYPE. It ignores the rest. That's all there is to it. This is true even if you include the DOCTYPE in the DTD itself; you can still specify a specific element to start parsing from.

If you aren’t seeing a flood of online shoppers at your website on Monday afternoons, you should be. A recent study reveals that Mondays are the busiest online shopping days for the third year in a row. The study, conducted by Atlas Solutions, looked at consumers’ online shopping behaviors at 96 leading eCommerce sites during holiday seasons.

The study concludes the following best practices for online marketers:

• Create a Monday afternoon campaign online to match the previous weekend’s in-store promotion.
• Target the workweek lunch hour (noon to 3 p.m. EST) because that is typically when consumers buy.
• Anticipate higher click volumes during Monday afternoons and be sure that any related marketing campaigns remain focused on converting browsers to buyers.

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• Refer to documents on the spot by embedding them in you spreadsheet
• Supercharge your browser security plan with Vista's protection enhancements
• Open career doors when you transform systems administration into a service

New Horizons' goal is for our students to become more productive and successful in their daily activities. With this in mind, we have created Elevate, a newsletter specifically created for New Horizons students. In this free monthly publication, you will read articles on how to put what you learned at New Horizons into action.

Simply click on the following link to access the September issue of Elevate.
www.newhorizons.com/uploadedFiles/ElevateNewsletter/Elevate_Sept2008.pdf

Good luck on your path of lifelong learning.