You may want to try several poses to find the most flattering one. If you have a timer, and a series option, you can set your camera to take several pictures at a time, which gives you time to pose or smile. You may look more together if you're not worried about operating the camera and posing. Give yourself more than enough time with the timer so you don't have to run back and forth too quickly. If you love the timer method, invest in a remote. You should try as many angles as possible to see which one is the most flattering and makes you look your best. Avoid taking photos from below because you'll look shorter or like you have a double-chin. If the camera is slightly above you, you'll look taller and slimmer. Avoid taking photos head-on. This will make you look boxy. Take the photo from the left or right to make your photo more dynamic. Try ten or twenty different angles. Have fun until you find your most flattering angle. Remember that one hairstyle can look great in one angle, while another would not look as nice in the same set-up. Try taking pictures in front of the mirror. This will add a new and fun perspective to your photo shoot. The camera will show up in the photo for a fun effect. Keep going until you get the perfect shot. Unless you have a Polaroid or film camera, you have nothing to lose. Try as many outfits or hairstyles as you want until you look just right. You can try a variety of backgrounds that make you stand out, whether you're at home or outside. If you found the perfect location, try taking pictures in the same place during different times of the day to see how the lighting affects your look. Show a friend or family member your picture before uploading it to the Internet to get a second opinion. You may think you look perfect, but an honest opinion could help you improve your next photo.
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One-sentence summary -- Set up your camera. Experiment with different angles. Take as many pictures as possible. Ask a friend for an opinion.

When you import a document into Excel, certain characters will be used to determine what data goes into each cell in the Excel spreadsheet. By performing a few formatting steps before importing, you'll be able to control how the final spreadsheet appears and minimize the amount of manual formatting you have to perform. This is especially useful if you are importing a large list from a Word document into Excel. This method works best when you have a list of multiple entries, each formatted the same (list of addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.). Before beginning the conversion process, you'll want to ensure that each entry is formatted in the same way. This means fixing any punctuation errors or reorganizing any entries that don't match the rest. This will ensure that the data transfers properly. Displaying the normally hidden formatting characters will help you determine the best way to split up the entries. You can display them by clicking the "Show / Hide Paragraph Marks" button in the Home tab or by pressing Ctrl+ Shift+* Most lists will either have one paragraph mark at the end of each line, or one at the end of the line and one in the blank line between entries. You will be using the marks to insert the characters used by Excel to differentiate between cells. Excel will use space between entries to determine the rows, but you'll need to get rid of it for now to help the formatting process. Don't worry, you'll be adding it back in a little bit. This works best when you have one paragraph mark at the end of an entry and one in the space between entries (two in a row). Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace window. Type ^p^p into the Find field. This is the code for two paragraph marks in a row. If each entry is a single line and there are no blank lines between them, use a single ^p instead. Enter a delimiting character into the Replace field. Make sure that it isn't a character that appears anywhere in the document, such as ~. Click Replace All. You'll notice that the entries may combine themselves, but that's not a concern right now as long as the delimiting character is in the right place (between each entry) Now that your entries are separated so that they appear in subsequent rows, you'll want to define what data will appear in each field. For example, if each entry is a name on the first line, a street address on the second line, and a state and zip code on the third line, you can Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace window. Remove one of the ^p marks in the Find field. Change the character in the Replace field to a comma ,. Click Replace All. This will replace the remaining paragraph symbols with the comma separator, which will separate each line into a field. Once you've done the two Find-and-Replace steps above, your list will not look like a list anymore. Everything will be on the same line, with commas between every piece of data. This final Find-and-Replace step will return your data to a list while keeping the commas that define the fields. Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace window. Enter ~ (or whatever character you chose originally) into the Find field. Enter ^p into the Replace field. Click Replace All. This will break your entries back into individual groupings separated by the commas. Now that your formatting is complete, you can save the document as a text file. This will allow Excel to read and parse your data so that it goes in the correct fields. Click the File tab and select "Save As". Click the "Save as type" drop-down menu and select "Plain Text". Name the file as you prefer and click Save. If the File Conversion window appears, just click OK. Now that you've saved the file in plain text, you can open it up in Excel. Click the File tab and select Open. Click the "All Excel Files" drop-down menu and select "Text Files". Click Next > in the Text Import Wizard window. Select "Comma" in the Delimiter list. You can see how the entries will be separated in the preview at the bottom. Click Next >. Select the data format for each of the columns and click Finish.
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One-sentence summary -- Understand how the document will be converted. Scan the document for any formatting errors. Display the formatting characters in your Word document. Replace the paragraph marks between each entry to get rid of extra space. Separate each entry into separate fields. Replace the delimiting character to finish the formatting process. Save the file as a plain text file. Open the file in Excel.

Open up the oven, pull out the rack a bit, and push the sides of the cookie very lightly with a spatula or your finger. If the edge stays firm and doesn't fall inwards, then your cookies are done. If you leave a noticeable indention, then your cookies likely need a few minutes more in the oven. This is an especially good method to use with dark cookies, such as chocolate or gingerbread, where coloring isn't the best indication of doneness. If you choose to use your finger to test, make sure to be very careful or you could get burned by the baking sheet. If you are working with a fragile cookie, like shortbread, test them by pressing lightly into the center instead of the edges. This will lower the likelihood of them breaking up upon contact. Pull open your oven and slide your metal spatula halfway under a single cookie. Lift up just a bit and check the coloring of the cookie's underside. The cookie should appear light brown or golden in coloring and firm in texture. Be very careful when lifting or you could split the cookie in half. This method works well for sandies, spritz, and other pale colored cookies. It's sometimes hard to test the doneness of bar cookies because they are so dense and often dark in coloring. Get a wooden toothpick or skewer and push it into the bar. Keep going until you reach the halfway point of the cookie. Withdraw the toothpick. If there are lots of crumbs or batter on the wood, then the cookies are not quite done. It's important to use wood skewers or toothpicks. Metal ones do not work as well as the crumbs will simply slide off.
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One-sentence summary --
Press the edges with your finger. Lift the cookie up to check the bottom. Insert a toothpick into bar cookies.