IE 8 to break millions of web pages!!!

The next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will render pages so strictly according to web standards that a large number of pages optimized for it will appear broken. In a posting on the offcial IE Blog, Platform Architect Chris Wilson stated that IE 8 would need to implement a system by which website designers can use HTML metatags to instruct IE to render them using correct web standards or IE’s previous fawed standards. “In many cases, these sites would have worked better if they had served IE 7 the same content and stylesheets they were serving when visited with a non-IE browser, but they had ‘fxed their content’ for IE. Sites didn’t work, and users experienced problems” he has written.
The shift to IE 7 in 2006 caused a huge number of websites to be displayed incorrectly even if they looked fne on other browsers, since designers anticipated that Microsoft would continue to follow its own standards implementation schemes, according to the blog post. Since websites often serve individually tweaked versions of pages to users depending on which browser they use, only the IE versions of those pages were affected. Now, IE 8 is expected to be even more strict with web standards, which could result in an even larger number of such website “breakages” in its efforts to encourage web developers to follow standards.The proposed metatag would mean that web pages would have to specifcally request the browser to render them in a “standards mode”, while pages without the metatag would be rendered exactly the same way as IE 7 renders them.

Excellent Tips for MS-Excel

Printing grids:
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Excel by default does not print the gridlines (the cell markers). This is because by default the cells in Excel do not have a colored border. To enable gridlines while setting up your document for print, perform the following steps:
1. From the “File” menu select the “Page Setup” option.
2. Click the “Sheet” tab on the dialog box.
3. Under the “Print” section, check on “Gridlines”.
4. Click “OK”.
5. To verify whether the gridlines appear properly, use the “File | Print Preview” command.

Using Borders for grids:
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Using the gridlines option to print may not be such a good idea if you do not wish to print all the gridlines on the page to be printed. You can instead as a solid border to the cells as an alternative. To add a border to a set of cells:
1. Select the required cells.
2. Click the drop-arrow near the Border button on the Formatting toolbar to choose from a list of
border styles.
3. Select the Outside borders or Top and Bottom borders style.
4. The border style will be applied on the selected range.
5. Repeat these steps for other cell ranges that are to be formatted.
6. Finally save the file.
7. Before printing the worksheet you can preview it by using the “File | Print Preview”command. Then click the “Close” button.

AUto fill A series:
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Excel offers a time-saving feature called the fill handle. With the fill handle, you can fill data series like numbers and dates, numbers or dates at specific intervals, numbers with specific patterns, alpha numeric data in specific patterns, month, and days of the calendar etc…
To type numbers with specific patterns:
1. Type the first two numbers in consecutive cells (odd, even, consecutive or pattern of numbers
to be followed).
2. Select both the cells.
3. Place the mouse pointer to the extreme bottom-right corner of the selection the this cross will change to a thin plus “+” sign
4. Now left click and drag the fill handle down or across to as many cells as required to extend the
series, to cpmlete your series.