Creative Edge

ZIP! Tips

Mike Song — 2013/05/22

Overloaded? Overwhelmed? Overworked? You need ZIP! Today, the fastest way to get more done is to focus on tech management—not time management. Mike Song, with the help of productivity superhero “Z,” shows you that the secret is right at your fingertips. The devices and software you use every day have incredible time-saving features almost nobody knows about! Once you discover them you’ll effortlessly boost your performance and zoom to your goals like never before. ZIP! to what matters most in a single click! Print long phrases in two keystrokes! Convert an Outlook email into a LinkedIn contact in three keystrokes! And so much more! “It takes guts to teach Microsoft leaders new ways to use our own technology. This book exceeded our expectations and had us all zipping along!” —Chuck Metzger, Senior Project Manager, Microsoft “ZIP Tips make your entire organization better, smarter, and faster!” —Elaine Hetu, Director, Six Sigma Training and Career Development, McKesson “ZIP Tips help our busy salespeople soar!” —Brenda Davis, Senior Manager, Worldwide Sales Training, United Airlines

PowerPoint® 2013 on Demand

Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc. — 2013/05/22

Need answers quickly? PowerPoint 2013 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Inside the Book

• Create powerful presentations faster using ready-made templates

• Use gestures to navigate your presentation and slide show on touch screens

• Organize information in sections and add impact with online pictures, SmartArt diagrams, tables, and charts

• Make your presentation come alive with custom animations, 3-D effects, and slide transitions

• Embed, format, trim, and add text to videos in your presentation

• Add comments and email or IM your presentation to others for review

• Broadcast your presentation over the Internet in a browser

• Use SharePoint and SkyDrive to collaborate and share documents

• Prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam

Illustrations with matching steps

Tasks are presented on one or two pages

Numbered Steps guide you through each task

Did You Know? alerts you to tips and techniques

See Also points you to related information in the book

Bonus Online Content

• Workshops and related files

• Keyboard shortcuts

Visit the author site: perspection.com

Take Control of PDFpen 6

Michael E Cohen — 2013/05/22

Learn to create, edit, and manipulate PDFs with Smile's PDFpen 6!

Have you ever needed to give feedback on a PDF, but stumbled around trying to insert comments and proofreading marks? Or spent way too long trying to refresh the date on a PDF-based flyer? Maybe you wanted to fill out and sign a PDF-based form without printing it and faxing it back? What about making your own PDF-based form with fill-in fields that could be submitted over the Internet? Or have you wished you could OCR scanned text so you could revise it right in the PDF? All these tasks--and much more--can be done with PDFpen from Smile.

Even better, there's an in-depth guide for all these tasks. Written by Michael E. Cohen with clarity and humor, Take Control of PDFpen 6 turns you into a PDF productivity powerhouse while you work at your desktop or laptop Mac with PDFpen or PDFpenPro, or on the go with your iPad or iPhone.

Michael begins with a rundown of your purchasing options: PDFpen versus PDFpenPro, from Smile versus the Mac App Store, and the advantages of an iPhone or iPad version.

Next, you'll meet PDFpen, starting with a general overview of the PDF format, followed by a tour of PDFpen's user interface--including the new Editing bar. Then Michael jumps into the many ways you can modify a PDF:

Add and remove pages, and combine pages from multiple files into one PDF.Directly edit the text, plus add comments and professional editing marks.Redact confidential text. Add clickable page and URL links, add page numbers, and add images.Make a clickable table of contents (PDFpenPro only).Change the look with a Quartz filter (for example, make it black-and-white).Reduce the file size with a Quartz filter.Password-protect it.Turn it into a formatted Microsoft Word document.Prevent other users taking certain actions, such as printing or editing (PDFpenPro only).

You'll learn how PDFpen is your friend when it comes to forms:

Fill out forms with ease.Add a handwritten signature--in the iOS versions, you can write with a stylus!Print just form entries on a pre-printed form!Create an interactive PDF form for both Mac and Windows (PDFpenPro only). You can even make your interactive PDF form collect data and send it to you via email or the Web.

And, that's not all! You'll also learn how to:

Move PDFs in and out of PDFpen in iOS, so that you can fluidly share them between your Apple devices--Michael describes several approaches, including iCloud, iTunes, Dropbox, and Open In.Get the most out of Apple's AutoSave and Versions features--or turn them off for PDFpen if you find them troublesome.Scan a document to PDF, and make the text editable with OCR.Print a PDF with its annotations appearing at the end.Store frequently used items (like a logo or signature) in the PDFpen Library.Turn a Web site into a multi-page PDF (PDFpenPro only).

An appendix describes the many useful AppleScripts that ship with PDFpen.

This ebook was created in collaboration with Smile, with PDFpen's developers tech editing the manuscript.

InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide

Sandee Cohen — 2013/05/22

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide highlights the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Complete coverage of InDesign CC's new features includes: updated tools for a variety of output formats; the new QR code generator, to easily allow linking to online content; Font Favorites, to make it easy to customize workspaces. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and much more.

Includes eBook

In addition to concise, step-by-step explanations of core tools and tasks, with plenty of helpful screen shots to keep you on track as you work, InDesign CC: Visual QuickStart Guide includes the eBook. You can download digital versions of this book to load on the mobile device of your choice so that you can continue learning whenever and wherever you are. We provide you with EPUB, PDF, and MOBI eBook formats to ensure that you get the experience that best suits your viewing needs.

Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk

Stefan Trueck — 2013/05/21

In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital accord (Basel II), which allows banks to base their capital requirements on internal as well as external rating systems. Because of this, sophisticated credit risk models are being developed or demanded by banks to assess the risk of their credit portfolio better by recognizing the different underlying sources of risk. As a consequence, not only default probabilities for certain rating categories but also the probabilities of moving from one rating state to another are important issues in such models for risk management and pricing. It is widely accepted that rating migrations and default probabilities show significant variations through time due to macroeconomics conditions or the business cycle. These changes in migration behavior may have a substantial impact on the value-at-risk (VAR) of a credit portfolio or the prices of credit derivatives such as collateralized debt obligations (D+CDOs). In this book the authors develop a much more sophisticated analysis of migration behavior. Their contribution of more sophisticated techniques to measure and forecast changes in migration behavior as well as determining adequate estimators for transition matrices is a major contribution to rating based credit modeling. *Internal ratings-based systems are widely used in banks to calculate their value-at-risk (VAR) in order to determine their capital requirements for loan and bond portfolios under Basel II *One aspect of these ratings systems is credit migrations, addressed in a systematic and comprehensive way for the first time in this book *The book is based on in-depth work by Trueck and Rachev,

An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition

Moorad Choudhry — 2013/05/21

The second edition of An Introduction to Credit Derivatives provides a broad introduction to products and a marketplace that have changed significantly since the financial crisis of 2008. Author Moorad Choudhry gives a practitioner's perspective on credit derivative instruments and the risks they involve in a succinct style without sacrificing technical details and scientific precision. Beginning with foundational discussions of credit risk, credit risk transfer and credit ratings, the book proceeds to examine credit default swaps and related pricing, asset swaps, credit-linked notes, and more. Ample references, appendices and a glossary add considerably to the lasting value of the book for students and professionals in finance. <ul><li>A post-crisis guide to a powerful bank risk management product, its history and its use</li><li>Liberal use of Bloomberg screens and new worked examples increase hands-on practicality</li><li>New online set of CDS pricing models and other worksheets multiply the book's uses</li></ul>

Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple

Ben Howard — 2013/05/21

Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Project 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to effectively manage all your projects.

Access® 2013 on Demand

Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc. — 2013/05/21

Need answers quickly? Access 2013 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.

Inside the Book

• Create desktop databases or web apps for traditional and online users to gather, organize, and share data

• Use professional templates to help you create desktop databases or web apps

• Create web apps on SharePoint Team Services to collaborate and share information

• Use tools for building a database or web app that makes information easier to find and use

• Import data from other programs, HTML, XML files, and other databases

• Use forms, filters, queries, and reports to capture and analyze data

• Organize information and add impact with themes, pictures, tables, and charts

• Add hyperlinks and web pages to forms and reports to use content on the Internet

• Use macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate and add functionality to databases

• Prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam

Numbered Steps guide you through each task

See Also points you to related information in the book

Did You Know? alerts you to tips and techniques

Illustrations with matching steps

Tasks are presented on one or two pages

• Workshops and related files

• Keyboard shortcuts

Visit the author site: perspection.com

WordPress® on Demand

Patrice-Anne Rutledge — 2013/05/21

WordPress on Demand will cover both WordPress.com and WordPress.org in a visual, step-by-step format. In addition to offering detailed guidance on how to complete dozens of common WordPress tasks, this book will provide real-world advice and suggestions on how to save time, avoid frustration, and create a high-quality, well-designed site that attracts an audience and achieves results. WordPress on Demand will be based on WordPress version 3.5.1.

In this book, readers will learn how to:

• Decide between hosted WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org)
• Choose the right domain name and web host
• Set up a WordPress website in minutes
• Configure WordPress settings that control privacy, search engine visibility, and more
• Choose, install, and customize themes
• Create, format, and manage pages and posts
• Add media files including images, audio, video, and documents
• Choose, install, and customize sidebar widgets
• Choose, install, and configure self-hosted WordPress plugins
• Add and manage custom menus
• Make the most of WordPress.com free and premium features
• Create and manage a site with multiple users
• Manage user comments and comment spam
• Import, export, and back up WordPress sites
• Design a site that works on mobile devices

Bonus content includes:

• Workshops that show readers how to enhance their feeds, create a private WordPress site, optimize their site for search engines, and more
• Shortcuts, advice, and cautions to save time and frustration
• Design tips to help readers create a high-quality site even if they have no design background
• Recommended plugins and themes

How to Influence and Persuade 2nd edn, 2nd Edition

Jo Owen — 2013/05/20

Everyone operating in business needs to understand how they should be using both influence and persuasion to make an impact, deliver outstanding results and really get ahead. This brand new edition of How to Influence, is structured into three easy-to-access sections that will show you how to create willing allies across your organisation, turn potential crises into career defining opportunities, turn disagreement into consent, win key battles without fighting, push your agenda forward with authority, achieve more and stay in control. Author Jo Owen is highly regarded as a world-leading expert in business practise and skills.