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In this tutorial, you will lean a quick way to calculate percentages in Excel, find the basic percentage formula and a few more formulas for calculating percentage increase, percent of total and more. Calculating percentage is useful in many areas of life, whether it is restaurant tipping, reseller commission, your income tax or interest rate. Say, you've been lucky enough to get a 25% off promotion code on a new plasma TV. Is this a good deal? And how much will you eventually have to pay?

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Five shows into the series, we've looked at what your options are, what's changed and what's new with the new Office. We threw skydiver Fully Sik out of a plane to test if Office 365 ProPlus could be installed during 90 seconds of free fall; we took a look at the new Office telemetry to help you optimize your Office configuration; and we've explored identity and data access with the new user-based Office and caught up with Zero Day and Trojan Horse Sci-Fi author and industry renowned cyber-security expert, Mark Russinovich on the security model for online services. We even performed the great race of Office installs. We've received a lot of your questions along the way so, for our sixth show, we changed gears to present a live 60-minute episode of the Garage Series Live! on real world adoption tips and tricks with live Q&A. If you missed the show you can see it again here.

In order to be taken seriously, small businesses need to convince customers of their professional ability and their value. Small businesses can punch above their weight by taking the time to go to market with a professional set of business documents, templates and content to ensure customers aren't dismissing them before they have a chance to pitch the value of their product or service.

The concept of a 'physical office' as a small business hub of productivity is quickly being replaced by the connected 'mobile office,' which connects employees wherever they happen to be. Today's business landscape favors those who are nimble and able to adapt rapidly by collaborating on the go, sharing ideas quickly and anticipating customer needs. Luckily, small businesses today can achieve this dynamic work environment through the use of Web-based software available for both desktop and mobile platforms. Web-based software is known as 'cloud services' or as 'the cloud' for short. Today, small businesses have access to IT solutions that were previously only available to enterprises - allowing them to punch above their weight class and better compete in their industry. By taking advantage of these Web-based and mobile solutions, small businesses can effectively run their company from anywhere - even from a mobile device or tablet.

You can create RSS Feeds in a stylesheet by using this code. By utilizing this tool, you can have stylesheets, tips, and other sites sent directly through your site instead of searching for them. The author, "Pete Freitag", recommends an XSL stylesheet, but a regular stylesheet will do just fine.

This tutorial is a handy on-line resource to turn to when you don't have a photoshop manual at your fingertips. Uniquely, it shows how to use a swatch of color from a single item in photoshop.

I know we should be recommending CSS tips and such, but please check out this short article by Jim Ramsey about flow in web sties. It's very akin to Web ReDesign 2.0 (for those of you who bought the book), which talks about the psychology of users - Kelly Groto and Emily Cotler both speak about the utter importance of a site that affords fluid, easy usability.

Snook says that if your are trying to keep track of headers in your css, try to declare specifications all in one line. I might try to do this in the future when I get better at designing; describing an h3's colors, font size and background in one single line.

I was trying to do this yesterday, filling in a layer section with an already existing background color

This is a good code to know for the future. HR means Horizontal Rule. You can use these dividers anywhere on your site to divide content. It is similar in style to the banners I bookmarked previously. However, I don't think they can be used as dividers between content, but if they can I'm sure you need to know what HR means.

Has anyone seen the shorthand feature on the HTML-kit Tools site? See the video on http://www.chami.com/html-kit/tools. After writing a tag, press Ctrl "J" - it's like the predictive text feature on cell phones. This should be useful when writing html elements becomes more familiar. The Atari voice on the video is annoying, though.