The goal of this tutorial is to perform a mail merge which includes a unique URL (web address) for each record. That way, you can send email with unique URLs for each recipient, which may be useful when sending surveys or tracking individual followup.
This is the procedure to embed a hyperlink into a mail merge in Microsoft Office 2010, using Word and Excel.
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So many wonderful buttons!
Dialogue from Ghostbusters (1984):
Gozer: Are you a god?
Stantz: No.
Gozer: Then… die! [Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off]
Winston: Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES!”
French explorer Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin. Nicolet and seven companions traveled from Quebec, stopping at the shores of what is now Green Bay. Nicolet expected to encounter Asian peoples. He donned a Chinese damask robe to greet them but met, instead, a small group of Menomonee Indians. Believing that Nicolet was a son of the gods, the Menomonee celebrated with a great feast in his honor. (Information from the Wisconsin Historical Society)
What an impression this made on Native Americans. In paintings of this encounter, Nicolet appears to be blazing away with his pistols. How like the next 200 years that was.
The Landfall of Jean Nicolet by Edwin Willard Deming, 1904
Jean Nicolet, landing at the Bay of Green Bay by Franz Rohrbeck, 1910
Here’s a snippet from an Adobe FAQ regarding the CS6 package. The web design lesson here is to make sure that the answers to questions answer the questions.
Here’s what Adobe is telling me:
The question: What is the installation and activation process?
The answer: New.
That’s a completely useless answer and does not describe the process at all. If you’re involved in drafting something like this, ask yourself: does this really answer the question?
You can really see the impact of regional politics when comparing the sea ports on the Mediterranean Sea at Ashdod, Israel and Gaza, occupied territory. These ports are just a short distance from each other. You can see plenty of freight coming and going in Israel, whereas the port in Gaza is completely empty due to the illegal imposition of an Israeli military blockade. This is crippling to society and economy in Gaza, where the lack of imported goods makes daily life difficult for 1.6 million people. Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically prohibits this kind of collective punishment.
Israeli port at Ashdod
Port at Gaza, occupied territory
Magazine insert in 1970 showing what the inside of a spacecraft of the future might look like
Flight deck of The Space Shuttle Endeavour, 1992
click for full size. Not known whether this data is global or specific to a nation or region.
Near west development in Madison, Wisconsin