Parental control software reviews provides a comparison of the top 5 parental internet monitoring software programs. Cyber patrol, Net Nanny, Webwatcher, PC Tattletale, and Soft for You provides internet protection for children. If you are a parent looking for internet monitoring software, these five are powerful and will get the job done.

Finding internet monitoring software that suits each family member’s individual needs is not as hard as you may think. This website provides a snap shot of each programs costs, features, compatibility requirements, and resources. Parental internet monitoring software keeps kids safe online.

Ratings on parental control software programs are done with children in mind. As computer technology advances it becomes more and more difficult to protect children when they are online. Parental internet monitoring software has many useful features that help make the Internet a safer place for children.

Some of the parental internet monitoring software features includes:

- Easy to setup and use

- Inappropriate Adult Content blockers

- Ability to observe any of your children’s email, peer to peer network, chat & blog, and newsgroup activities

- Limit time spent online

- Capabilities to keep cyber bullies and online predators away

- Record chat sessions, keystrokes, passwords, and take screen shots

- Management of computer/video games

- Flexible content filtering options that allow you to customize settings for each user

- Regulate access to entire websites, specific content or off-limit programs

These programs differ in that some include features that the others may not. For example, Webwatcher has a full remote monitoring feature meaning that you can monitor from anywhere in the world. PC Tattletale focuses more on monitoring where as Cyber Patrol focuses more on filtering.

Webwatcher’s rating according to price is high at $97. This is partly due to its many features that you would normally have to buy 2 or 3 different software programs. Besides its parental monitoring features, it also has capabilities to be used by businesses, governments, law enforcement agencies, for personal relationships, and schools.

The ratings for PC Tattletale ($49.95), Net Nanny ($39.99), Cyber Patrol ($39.95), and Soft for You ($34.95) parental control software programs according to price are about half that of Webwatcher. These four parental internet monitoring software programs were designed specifically with children in mind. Don’t be fooled by the relatively lower cost because they offer the same basic features as Webwatcher.

Parental Control Software Ratings take all these aspects, similar and different, into account. However, it is ultimately up to you to decide which parental internet monitoring software will best suit your family’s needs. You can’t place a value on your children’s protection on the Internet.

Many of the worksheets that are created Excel contain headings in the top row of the sheet. Normally, when we scroll down the sheet, any headings at the top will disappear. Similarly, if we scroll to the right, any headings on the left will disappear. The Freeze Panes command, which is located in the View Tab of the Excel Ribbon, allows us to freeze our headings so that, as we scroll the sheet, headings remain in view.

Excel offers us three options: firstly, we can choose “Freeze Top Row”. A bold horizontal line is then displayed underneath the first row which extends into the row headings. As we scroll down the worksheet, the headings at the top of the sheet remain in view. Similarly, we can choose “Freeze First Column”. This time, the bold line extends to the right of the first column and into the column heading area. Then, as we scroll to the right, the first column remains frozen so that we can see the headings it contains and compare them with the data in the adjacent cells. To return to normal scrolling, we simply choose “Unfreeze Panes” in the “Freeze Panes” drop-down menu.

As well as freezing a single row or column, it is also possible to freeze an arbitrary number of rows and columns. To do this, you simply highlight the cell below the last row you want frozen and to the right of the last column you want frozen. So, for example, if you want to to freeze the first row and the first column, you just select cell “B2″. Once you have highlighted the cell, in the “Freeze Panes” drop-down menu, you would then choose “Freeze Panes”.

This time, you should see two bold lines: one indicating the column that is frozen and one indicating the row that is frozen. Then, when scrolling down, the first row remains frozen and, similarly, when scrolling to the right, the first column remains frozen. Once again, to normal scrolling, simply choose “Unfreeze Panes” in the “Freeze Panes” drop-down menu.

Since this command allows us to freeze any number of rows or columns, if you are working on a large worksheet perhaps containing multiple row and column headings, you will probably find it pretty much an essential feature.

The Split command is found in the View Tab of the Excel Ribbon. It allows you to split an Excel spreadsheet window into either two or four separate panes and is particularly useful for comparing data in different parts of a large worksheet.

To use the Split command, first activate the cell where you would like the split to occur then click on the split button in the Window section of the View Tab of the Excel Ribbon. The horizontal and vertical bars which mark the split can be repositioned simply by dragging. Separate scrollbars are also available for each section; so, in the case of a vertical and horizontal split, you end up with two horizontal scrollbars and two vertical scrollbars. To remove the split, just click on the split button once more.

A second and more intuitive method of using the split command is to use the split boxes. The split boxes are tiny icons located above the vertical scroll bar and to the right of the horizontal scroll bar. Let’s say that we have a spreadsheet containing rows of sales figures. Suppose we want to be able to compare the sales figures of one person with the sales figures of other individuals. We can create two vertical panes by dragging the vertical split box. We can then scroll to make the first person’s sales figures visible and in the top pane then do the same to position the sales figures of any other sales person in the bottom pane.

Excel offers us a really simple way to exit split mode. All you need to do is double-click on the split line.

Suppose we then want to focus on the total for each individual and that the totals are shown in column J. We can create vertical and horizontal splits by dragging each of the two split boxes. We can then display the salesperson’s name displayed in the left pane while in the pane on the right we can scroll across to reveal the total.

As we scroll up and down, we now have the totals for each sales person next to the sales person’s name. If we also want the heading to remain in place, we simply make the top pane one row deep, displaying only the headings while we scroll the bottom pane up and down.

When we finish working with our totals, we can remove the vertical split and leave the horizontal split in place. To do this, we simply double-click on the vertical split line. To return to a normal window we would also double-click on the horizontal split line.

Microsoft Excel offers a number of different ways of inserting new sheets into your workbooks. One of the most straightforward methods is to use the Insert Worksheet button. This can be found to the right of the worksheet tabs. Irrespective of which worksheet is active, clicking this button will always insert a worksheet as the last tab in your workbook.

It is also possible to create a worksheet at a given position within the workbook. For example, let’s say we are working on a workbook containing a record of the invoices issued by a company in each month of the year. We have twelve worksheets named “January”, “February”, and so on. We would now like to insert quarterly analysis sheets at the end of each quarter.

As with columns, Excel inserts new worksheets to the left of the currently selected tab. Therefore to insert the first quarterly analysis sheet, we would select April. However, as we’ve seen, we can’t use the Insert Worksheet button to insert the new sheet or it will always go at the end. So instead, we use the Insert command in the Cells section of the Home Tab of the Excel Ribbon.

We could also right-click on the “April” tab and choose Insert. Excel then allows us to choose the type of sheet we want to insert. As well as worksheet, we can insert a chart sheet, a backwardly compatible macro sheet or dialog sheet. These are useful for Excel developers. In addition we can insert a spreadsheet solution such as the billing statement or sales report. To insert a worksheet, in the General tab of the Insert dialogue, click on worksheet then click OK.

We would then rename the sheet; let’s say “Qtr1 Analysis” and repeat the same procedure to insert analysis sheets to the left of the “July” and “October” tabs. The analysis sheet of the fourth quarter will be the last sheet in the workbook. We can only insert a worksheet in this position by using the Insert Worksheet button.

To delete an Excel worksheet, use the Delete Sheets command in the Cells group of the Home Tab of the Excel Ribbon. You can also delete a sheet by right-clicking the sheet tab and choosing Delete from the context menu. To delete multiple sheets at once, highlight the relevant tabs and then using the Delete Sheet command.

Selecting several sheets at once requires the use of the classic Windows techniques of Shift-click and Control-click. To select a contiguous range of worksheet tabs, click on the first then, while holding down the Shift key, click on the last. To select a non-contiguous range, click on the first then, while holding down the Control key, click on each of the others.

To deselect a selected range of tabs, click on any tab which isn’t selected. If all tabs are selected, simply click on the name of any tab to select only that tab.

An Excel 2007 document is really a container referred to as an Excel workbook. Workbooks consist of worksheets and it is the worksheet which actually stores your information. Although the number of worksheets is supposed to be limited only by available memory, for most computer users, there will be a practical limit of a few dozen. Any workbook containing hundreds of sheets will operate extremely slowly.

The controls for navigating through your worksheets are located in the bottom left of the Excel document window. Each worksheet is represented by a named tab which can be used to activate it. In addition to worksheets, Excel allows the user to create chart (and other) sheets. Each of these other sheets will also have a tab of its own.

When you insert a new sheet into an Excel workbook, it is automatically assigned a name consisting of the word “Sheet” followed by a number. The most straightforward way of changing this default name is to double-click on the worksheet tab and then either edit the name or just type a new one. A second option is to right-click on a sheet tab and choose rename. The Rename command is also available in the Format section of the Cells group of the Home Tab.

If you have a sheet name which is rather long or in some way difficult, it is also possible to copy and paste the name from somewhere else. Simply use Control-C to copy any piece of text, double-click on a sheet tab and use Control-V to paste the text.

Another way of making your worksheet tabs easily identifiable is to assign them colours. For example, say you have worksheets containing monthly sales figures interspersed with sheets containing quarterly analysis, you could assign a different colour to worksheets in each quarter.

We would start by selecting the quarter one sheet then, holding down the Control key, we would click on the tabs containing the figures for January, February and March. To set the colour of the selected tabs, we can then choose Format Colour in the Format section of the Cells group of the Home Tab. We can then do the same to the sheets in the other three quarters.

As more and more sheets are added to a workbook, the fact of having different colours for certain sheets offers us another way of identifying and finding both individual sheets and sheets of a certain type. Assigning colours to sheet tabs also allows users to conform to standards which may already exist within their organisations, whereby a given colour is used to represent a certain type of information.