So what's the change?
When you first open any MS Office 2007 program, you may be surprised by its new look. Most of the changes are in the Ribbon, the area that spans the top of Word.
The Ribbon brings the most
popular commands to the forefront, so you don't have to hunt in various parts of the program for things you do all the time.Why the change?
To make your work easier and faster. The Ribbon was thoroughly researched and designed from users' experiences so that commands are in the optimal position.
There are three basic components to the Ribbon. It's good to know what each one is called so that you understand how to use it.
Tabs. There are seven basic ones across the top. Each represents an activity area.
Groups. Each tab has several groups that show related items together.
Commands. A command is a button, a box to enter information, or a menu.
Everything on a tab has been carefully selected according to user activities. For example, the Home tab contains all the things you use most often, such as the commands in the Font group for changing text font: Font, Font Size, Bold, Italic, and so on.
The Microsoft Office Button
The place to start a document is the Microsoft Office Button.
Once you press the button, a menu appears. You may notice that this menu, shown here, looks a bit similar to the File menus in previous versions of MS Office (Word, Excel, etc). On the left of the menu, you see all the commands to work with a file. Here's where to create a new document or open an existing one. You've got your Save and Save as commands here, too.The right side of the menu lists your recently opened documents. These are always conveniently visible so that you don't have to search your computer for a document you frequently work on.
Additional tabs appear
In this new version of Office, certain tabs appear only when you need them. For example, let's say you've inserted a picture. But now you want to do more with it. Maybe you want to change how text wraps around it or you want to crop it. Where are those commands found?1. Select the picture.
2. The Picture Tools tab appears. Click that tab.
3, Additional groups and commands appear for working with pictures; like the Picture Styles group.
When you click away from the picture, the Picture Tools tab disappears, and the other groups come back.
Note: On-demand tabs appear for other activity areas, like tables, drawings, diagrams, and charts.
The Mini toolbar
Some formatting commands are so useful that you want to have them available whatever you are doing.
Let's say you want to quickly format some text, but you're working on the Page Layout tab. You could click the Home tab to see the formatting options, but here's a faster way:Select your text by dragging with your mouse, and then point at the selection.
The Mini toolbar will appear in a faded fashion. If you point to the Mini toolbar, it will
become solid, and you can click a formatting option there.
The Mini toolbar is great for formatting options, but what if you want other types of commands to always be available? Use the Quick Access Toolbar.
The Quick Access Toolbar
The Quick Access Toolbar is the small area to the upper left of the Ribbon. It contains the things that you use over and over every day: Save, Undo, and Repeat. You can add your favorite commands to it so that they are available no matter which tab you are on.
Opening Templates
The steps for opening templates from the Office Online Web site are very similar. As the animation shows, you open the New Document window under the Office Button , but in this case you look in the area under Microsoft Office Online. Click one of the categories to see thumbnails of all the templates offered. As with installed templates, a large preview of each is given. Some categories, such as Letters, have subcategories that you choose from — for example, Academic, Business, and Cover Letters.
To download one of the templates, you select the thumbnail and click Download. That's it. The template opens as a fresh new document on your computer for you to add to as you want and then save.
The original template is not changed; it remains on Office Online. However, a copy of the template itself is saved to your computer. If you want to use it again, you don't have to go to Office Online again.
MS WORD 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007 is a program that is available to use on most computers that allows you to create, modify and save documents.There are many features associated with Microsoft Word.
You can use MS Word for other things than just typing out letters. For example:
· Resumes
· Flyers
· Letterheads
· Faxes
· Memos
· Documents with built in Charts
· And many more!
Office Word 2007 helps information workers create professional-looking content more quickly than ever before. With a host of new tools, you can quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles, as well as compose and publish blogs directly from within Word. Advanced integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and new XML-based file formats make Office Word 2007 the ideal choice for building integrated document management solutions.
This document provides an overview of Office Word 2007, with an emphasis on new and improved features. It also covers Office Word 2007 in action to demonstrate its exciting new capabilities.
For training courses, videos and general help on MS Word 2007 click here.
MS EXCEL 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool you can use to create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. With the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, rich data visualization, and PivotTable views, professional-looking charts are easier to create and use. Office Excel 2007, combined with Excel Services, a new technology that will ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides significant improvements for sharing data with greater security.
Improve spreadsheet analysis
New data analysis and visualization tools help you analyze information, spot trends, and access your company information more easily.
Use conditional formatting with rich data visualization schemes to discover and illustrate important trends and highlight exceptions in your data with colored gradients (heat maps), data bars, and icons. Sorting and filtering are two of the most important types of basic analysis that you can do with data. New options for sorting and filtering, such as multiselect in AutoFilters, sort or filter by color, and “quick filters” for specific data types make Office Excel 2007 the ideal tool for working with large amounts of complex data.
Create aPivotTable or PivotChart view more easily by using data fields to reorient data quickly to summarize and find the answers you need. Simply drag the fields to where you want them to display.
For training courses, videos and general help on MS Excel 2007 click here.
MS POWERPOINT 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations, while integrating workflow and ways to easily share information. From the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface to the new graphics and formatting capabilities, Office PowerPoint 2007 puts the control in your hands to create great-looking presentations.
Create dynamic presentations
Quickly create dynamic and great-looking presentations using the Office Fluent user interface and new graphics capabilities.
Get better results faster with the Office Fluent user interface. The Office Fluent user interface in Office PowerPoint 2007 makes creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience. You now have all of the rich features and capabilities of PowerPoint in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizes distraction and helps you achieve the results you want more quickly and easily.
Create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams. Easily create relationship, workflow, or hierarchy diagrams from within Office PowerPoint 2007. You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram or modify and update existing diagrams. It’s also easy for users to take advantage of rich formatting options with the contextual diagramming menus in the Office Fluent user interface.
Help ensure that your content is up to date. With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, you can easily repurpose slides from existing presentations stored on a site supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert from the site can be synchronized with the server version, to help ensure your content is up to date.
Create presentations quickly and easily by re-using custom layouts.
In Office PowerPoint 2007, you can define and save your own custom slide layouts, so you no longer have to waste valuable time cutting and pasting your layouts onto new slides or deleting content on a slide with the layout you want. With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, it is easy to share these custom slides with others so that your presentations have a consistent and professional look and feel.
Apply a consistent look and feel in one click. Document Themes help you change the look and feel of your entire presentation with just one click. Changing the theme of your presentation not only changes the background color but the colors of diagrams, tables, charts, and fonts, and even the style of any bullet points within a presentation. By applying a theme, you can be confident that your entire presentation has a professional and consistent look and feel.
Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects. You can now manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in much richer ways than ever before. Office PowerPoint 2007 makes these tools readily available through the streamlined user interface and contextual menus, so that in just a few clicks, your work can have greater impact.
For training courses, videos and general help on PowerPoint 2007 click here.
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