Elevate Monthly Newsletter

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.

Each month the newsletter will touch on new subject areas so every type of student, from the Help Desk Analyst to the Graphic Artist, will receive information on how to become more productive in their jobs.

Simply click on the following link to access the latest issue of Elevate.

Elevate - April 2010→

• Calculate expiration dates when Excel's EDATE function disappoints you
• Save time later by verifying VPN tunnel operation internally prior to rollout
• Cut the bloat:  Replace drop-shadow images with CSS styles

March 2010 → Fill out your sparse table of contents with extra entries  | Take advantage of your server's default security settings | Automate sub-list formatting with Paragraph Styles in InDesign CS3 

February 2010 → Let your audience guide your PowerPoint presentation with a cool dropdown menu  | Choose the VPN solution that best meets your business requirements | Boost user productivity with smarter dropdown list searches  

January 2010 → Put any automated Excel task at your fingertips with a simple right-click | Best practices for securing your VoIP communications | Add some fun and flair to your art with a colorful crayon creation

December 2009 → Give your Word tables some breathing room and increase their readability  |  Protect your network from spam with Microsoft's Intelligent Message Filter  |  Enhance site capabilities with server-side scripting

November 2009 → Custom fit your presentation to any audience without re-creating the wheel |  Manage print clients more efficiently with automated driver installations  |  Crafty moves that wield InDesign as a graphics program

October 2009 → Working with changing data? Spot and track trends with moving averages - Beat the bots: Defend your network against malicious robotic programs - Simplify your web design with cross-browser, multi-column CSS layouts

September 2009 → Publish to your blog straight from a Word 2007 document - Secure communications by automating user and computer certificates - Scale an image - not its contents - with Photoshop CS4's new Content-Aware Scale command

August 2009 → Give your audience the action they crave with a Flash-y animation - Troubleshoot startup problems and program errors with an all-in-one configuration tool - Don't let common typography mistakes render your website virtually unreadable

July 2009 → Count your filtered data using just the right function for the job - Best practices for effectively combating malicious code threats - Protect your ports from Trojan horse software - Harness Photoshop CS4's accessibility features for your design projects - Create a strong focal point with selective color

June 2009 → Word 2007 enhances the Compare and Merge Documents feature - Foil Windows registry hacks with four simple best practices - Indentify the security ID of a user - Captivate your website visitors appealing color palette

April 2009 → Organize your presentation with section markers - Easily size your network to meet new business requirements - Help your readers navigate PDFs more easily by adding hyperlinks in InDesign

March 2009 → Three ways to perfect your Excel data with confidence - Twelve ways to harden your domain controllers and prevent security breaches - Employ interactive elements t keep users on your side.

February 2009 → Three ways to perfect your columns in every document - Overcome Vista user control hassles and prove the critics wrong - Color your model's hair many different shades, without the chemicals

January 2009 → Define a new default font and text size for your presentations - Discover vulnerabilities before hackers do with penetration testing - Turn a problem redesign into a successful new site

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Good luck on your path of lifelong learning.