# New Content Released in March 2014

## New Content Released in March 2014

It has been a busy spring here at Triad! Here’s what we’ve added to SIMnet during the month of March:

### New SIMbook chapters

* A Skills Approach, Access Complete
  * Chapter 8 – Exploring Advanced Queries and Macros\
    (The Skills Access Complete chapters will be released out of order.)
* In Practice (Nordell), Access Complete
  * Chapter 7 – Creating Advanced Forms
  * Chapter 8 – Designing and Managing Databases
  * Chapter 9 – Integrating Applications

### SIMnet Tasks and Questions

Updated SIMnet lesson, exam, and SIMpath content for the following*In Practice*(Nordell) Access chapters:

* Chapter 3 – Creating and Using Queries
  * Totals
* Chapter 5 – Templates, Advanced Relationships, and Macros
* Chapter 6 – Creating Advanced Queries and Reports and Using SQL

## Projects

### New Projects

* Skills Approach Word – Ch 7 Skill Review 7-2
* Skills Approach Word – Ch 7 Challenge Yourself 7-3
* Skills Approach Word – Ch 8 Skill Review 8.1
* Skills Approach Word – Ch 8 Challenge Yourself 8.4
* In Practice Access – Ch 7 Independent Project 7-4
* In Practice Access – Ch 7 Independent Project 7-3a and 7-3b

### New/Improved Grading Features

#### Word

Pagination

* Determine if pagination settings have been applied to a paragraph such as widow and orphan control and keeping paragraphs together.

Cross-references

* Check for the existence of cross-references.

Table of Contents

* Determine if the table of contents uses a built-in formatting style.

Charts

* Check if the chart has specific chart elements such as a title, legend, or data labels.
* Check if a quick layout has been applied to a chart.

Pictures

* Determine if picture has been adjusted with a color.
* Determine if pictures have been grouped.
* Check the alignment of pictures or picture groups.

Smart Art

* Added checks for additional styles and color sets.

Shapes

* Revised grading for shape formatting to work regardless of the shape type.

Tables

* Determine if the repeat header row feature has been applied to a table header.
* Revised grading for several table features to work when there are multiple tables in a document.

#### Excel

Formulas

* Revised grading to ignore unnecessary outside parenthesis surrounding formulas.

### Bug Fixes

* In Practice Excel Ch 3 Independent Project 3-6 – Added feedback to identify when multiple trendlines exist for a data series.
* In Practice Excel Ch 4 Independent Project 4-4 – PivotTables will not be graded correctly if the source data reference a table name or a cell range.
* In Practice Excel Ch 6 Independent Project 6-5 – Corrected project instructions and revised grading related to nesting Index and Match functions and corresponding values for instructions #6 – 8.


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