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| Preface | |
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| Multimedia Design | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| What is Multimedia? | |
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| The Design Process | |
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| Project Organization | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Storyboards and Flowcharts | |
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| Designing Assignments for Your Students | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| PowerPoint, Windows, and Mac OS Settings | |
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| Stop Hiding File Extensions | |
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| Install a Local Printer Driver (Windows Only) | |
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| Sounds Settings for PowerPoint 2007/2008 and Earlier | |
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| Show the Developer Tab in the Ribbon | |
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| Set Macro Security | |
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| Create a Folder and Save | |
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| PowerPoint File Types | |
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| PowerPoint Versions | |
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| Opening a File with Macros | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Traditional and Multimedia Features of PowerPoint | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Inserting Images | |
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| Photo Albums | |
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| Sounds | |
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| Linking and Embedding Sounds (PowerPoint 2007/2008 and Earlier) | |
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| Hypertext Links | |
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| Linking within Your Presentation | |
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| Linking outside Your Presentation: Web Pages and Other Documents | |
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| Buttons | |
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| Text of Buttons | |
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| Sounds for Buttons | |
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| Aligning Objects and Other Details | |
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| Trigger Animations (Windows Only) | |
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| Controlling Navigation with Kiosk Mode | |
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| Saving as a PowerPoint Show | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Introducing Visual Basic<sup>�</sup> for Applications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| What is Visual Basic for Applications? | |
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| What is an Object-Oriented Programming Language? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Getting Started with VBA | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Accessing the VBA Editor | |
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| What if it Didn't Work? | |
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| Help! I've Lost My Windows | |
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| Be a Scripter: Change Things in Quotes | |
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| Subroutine, Procedure, or Macro | |
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| Tying Your VBA Script to a PowerPoint Button | |
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| Tying Your VBA Script to Any Object | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Changing a Button | |
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| Securing Your VBA Script from Prying Eyes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercise to Try | |
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| Let's Get Scripting | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Variables and Getting Input | |
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| Variable Declarations | |
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| Variable Types | |
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| The YourName Procedure and Abstraction | |
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| Force the Student to Type Something | |
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| What Else? A Personal Response and a Short-Answer Question | |
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| Running Your Scripts | |
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| Calling a Procedure from Another Procedure | |
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| Putting it Together: A Complete Quiz | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| A Scripting Bag of Tricks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Comments | |
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| Navigation: Moving from Slide to Slide | |
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| The Secrets of the MsgBox | |
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| Procedures, Functions, and Parentheses | |
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| Hiding and Showing PowerPoint Objects | |
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| Let's Get Started: Initializing Your Presentation | |
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| Referencing Objects by Number | |
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| What's in a Name? Finding and Changing Object and Slide Names | |
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| Shape Names | |
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| Slide Names | |
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| Using Names | |
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| Let's Get Started Again | |
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| This Slide or Another Slide | |
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| I Lost My Shapes | |
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| Putting the Student's Input into a Box | |
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| Manipulating Text in Objects | |
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| With Blocks | |
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| Adding Text | |
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| Manipulating Parts of Text in an Object | |
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| What Can You Change | |
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| Other Things You Can Do to Text | |
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| Manipulating Text: The Mystery Example | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Quizzes and Tests | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Simple Multiple-Choice Quizzes | |
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| Keeping Score | |
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| Try Again: Answer Until it's Right | |
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| Short-Answer Quiz Questions | |
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| Do Spelling and Spacing Count? | |
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| Bonus Trick: Three Tries | |
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| Try Again and Again: Answer Again After it's Right | |
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| How Did You Do: Reporting Results to the Teacher | |
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| Learn First, Ask Questions Later: The Tutorial and Quiz | |
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| Lost in Hyperspace: Where Have I Been? | |
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| Hide the Quiz Button | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| More Tricks for Your Scripting Bag | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Conditionals: The if Statement | |
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| Looping | |
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| While Loops | |
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| Do Loops | |
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| For Next Loops | |
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| For Each Loops | |
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| Infinite Loops | |
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| Parameters | |
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| Timed Functions | |
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| Saving and Quitting | |
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| Adding PowerPoint Objects | |
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| Arrays | |
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| I Don't Know How Many Questions: ReDim to the Rescue | |
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| Which Button Did I Press? | |
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| Random Numbers | |
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| Randomly Generated Questions | |
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| Keeping Score | |
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| Try Again: Answer Until it's Right | |
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| Choose Questions Randomly from a Pool | |
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| Ask How Many Questions You Want | |
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| Keeping Score | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Advanced Scripting Tricks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| Tags | |
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| More Tags | |
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| Stop in the Middle: Saving State | |
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| Writing to a File | |
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| Reading from a File | |
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| Communicating with Excel | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Debugging Tips | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| My Scripts Always Work the First Time | |
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| Testing for Bugs | |
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| No News is Bad News | |
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| Pebkac Errors | |
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| The Error in Red | |
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| I'm Not Seeing Red, but I'm Seeing Red | |
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| Commenting Out | |
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| Compiling Your Code | |
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| Debugger | |
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| An Ounce of Prevention | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Don't Capitalize to Prevent Bugs | |
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| Naming Conventions | |
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| Option Explicit | |
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| Indenting | |
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| Hints from the VBA Editor | |
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| VBA Help | |
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| Common Bugs | |
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| Multiple Modules | |
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| Duplicate Variables | |
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| Duplicate Procedures | |
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| Extra End Sub | |
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| The Forgotten Dim | |
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| Exclamation Points in File Names | |
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| Debugging Steps | |
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| Error Trapping | |
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| Bugs That Aren't Your Fault | |
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| Final Word on Debugging and Error Prevention | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Templates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vocabulary | |
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| What Are Templates? | |
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| Saving Your Template | |
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| The Pick-a-Partner Template Project | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises to Try | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |