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Upgrade to Office 2007

Course Objectives

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

  • Become proficient in the new features in Microsoft Office 2007
  • Understand the new Office 2007 file formats
  • Customise the Office 2007 experience
  • Use the Office 2007 ribbon effectively
  • Use the new features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 2007

Course Outline

Office 2007 Environment

  • Office button
  • Recent documents
  • Office ribbon
  • Minimise the ribbon
  • Dialog box launches
  • Contextual tabs
  • Quick access toolbar
  • Galleries and live preview
  • Access the ribbon via the keyboard
  • Mini toolbar
  • Zooming
  • Status bar

Word 2007

  • File formats
  • Compatibility checker
  • Word options View ruler
  • Building blocks
  • Text boxes
  • Compare documents
  • Charts
  • Word 2003 to 2007 command locations

Excel 2007

  • File formats
  • Compatibility checker
  • Excel options
  • File specifics
  • Auto complete functions
  • Expandable formula bar
  • New sheets button
  • Record macro button
  • Excel views
  • Themes
  • Sorting data
  • Conditional formatting
  • Pivot tables
  • Excel 2003 to 2007 command location

PowerPoint 2007

  • New and improved effects
  • New text options
  • Themes and quick styles
  • Custom slide layouts
  • Charts
  • Smart art
  • Presenter view
  • PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 command locations
Outlook 2007
  • Navigation pane
  • To-do bar
  • The ribbon
  • Flagging mail for follow-up
  • Attachment previewing
  • Out of office assistant
  • Signatures
  • Quick parts
  • Overlay calendars

Pre-requisites

Familiarity with one or more previous versions of Microsoft Office and experience with a keyboard and mouse.

Course Duration

1/2 day

Download the course outline in PDF format PDF

 
 
 
   
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Last modified: 17 February, 2009