Course Description
In the past, you have extensively used Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2003 to author and format content and graphics within documents. Office 2007 with its new features, user-friendly formatting, design, and authoring tools, improves the process of document creation and distribution. In this course, you will be introduced to the new and enhanced features available in Microsoft Office 2007.
Course Objective: You will explore the components of the results-oriented interface of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint environment and customize the interfaces to suit your requirements. You will then use the tools available in Office 2007 to create documents that look professional and also visually appealing.
Duration: 3 Hours
Target Student: This course is designed for experienced Office users who have worked with earlier versions of Microsoft® Office, ideally Microsoft® Office 2003, and who have upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007.
Prerequisites: Students enrolling in this course should understand how to use some version of Office, preferably 2003, and have some familiarity with the Internet. This course covers the commonly used new features for a typical user. Due to the nature of this course and the minimal prerequisites, there are other more advanced new features that are not covered in depth.
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• explore the components of the results-oriented interface of the Word environment.
• Explore the new components of the analytical tools in Excel.
• Explore the new Smart Graphics options in PowerPoint.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Exploring the Office 2007 Environment
Topic 1: Explore the User Interface
Topic 2: Working with the Ribbon
Topic 3: Work with Contextual Tabs
Topic 4: The Mini Toolbar
Lesson 2: New Features – Word 2007
Topic 1: Galleries
Topic 2: Live Preview
Topic 3: Building Blocks
Topic 4: Equations
Topic 5: The Document Inspector
Topic 6: XML Format
Topic 7: Compatibility Checker
Lesson 3: New Features – Excel 2007
Lesson 1: Format as Table
Lesson 2: Sorting and Filtering
Lesson 3: Conditional Formatting
Lesson 4: Charts
Lesson 4: New Features – PowerPoint 2007
Lesson 1: SmartArt
Lesson 2: Styles
Other Microsoft Excel Courses:
Excel 2007 - Beginners
Excel 2007 - Intermediate
Excel 2007 - Advanced
Data Analysis and Business Modelling
