Get Up to Speed with 2007 Office, Part 2: PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Visio

Donald E. HesterMCT

October 4, 2007

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Housekeeping

• Maximize your CCC Confer window.• Mute your phone (*6) if you have visitors or noise in your office.• Please note phone audio may be in presenter-only mode.• Ask questions over the phone when the presenter prompts. • Ask questions throughout presentation via the chat window.• Turn on or off Closed Captioning by clicking on the icon.• Save the presentation or chat by clicking on the icon.

PowerPoint 2007

Designed to help you produce professional-looking presentations, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 provides a comprehensive set of features that you can use to create and format your information.

New File Formats

Native XMLSaferSmallerProtectionInteroperability

Themes

Theme: A combination of theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects. A theme may be applied to a file as a single selection

Quick Styles

Quick Styles: Collections of formatting options that make formatting your documents and objects easier

Layouts

Layout: The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and movies, on a slide

How to add a custom layout - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA100796501033.aspx

Presenter View

Allows for two monitors to display the presentation and a new “Presenter View”

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA100673831033.aspx

SmartArt

SmartArt 1

You can take an existing slide and turn it into SmartArt

SmartArt 2

SmartArt converts list to a SmartArt style you choose

SmartArt 3

You can apply different effects to give your presentation a unique touch

SmartArt

Office Online

http://office.microsoft.com/powerpoint/

Outlook 2007

Office Outlook 2007 makes it easier for you to prioritize and control your time, allowing you to focus on the things that matter most.

RSS Feeds

ContactsElectronic Business CardsContact PhotosYomi Name SupportColor Catagories

Outlook Calendar

Office Online

http://office.microsoft.com/Outlook/

Access 2007

Microsoft Office Access 2007 provides a powerful set of tools that help you to quickly start tracking, reporting, and sharing information.

Getting Started

This page provides quick access to a library of professionally designed database templates, in addition to databases that you recently opened and (if you are connected to the Internet) links to popular Office Online articles.

New navigation

This pane lists and provides easy access to all of the objects in the currently open database. Use the Navigation Pane to organize your objects by object type, date created, date modified, related table (based on object dependencies), or in custom groups that you create.

Tabs

Your tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros are displayed as tabbed objects in the Access window.

Split Forms

Use the new split form to create a form that combines a Datasheet view and a Form view. You can set a property to tell Access to place the datasheet on the top, bottom, left, or right.

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Office Online

http://office.microsoft.com/access/

Visio 2007

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 helps you to create professional-looking diagrams for understanding, documenting, and analyzing information, data, systems, and processes.

Getting Started

1. Template categories2. Featured templates3. Template preview

Data Graphics

Example of a flowchart showing data graphics.

Transform diagrams into powerful tracking toolsData can be displayed as; progress bar, arrows, stars…Color and shape can change based on data

Demo: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HA101829791033.aspx?pid=CH100740891033

Office Online

http://office.microsoft.com/visio/

Learn More

Q & A

Evaluation Survey Link

http://tinyurl.com/2qd3gz

Upcoming/Archived Seminars

For upcoming desktop seminars and links to recently archived seminars, check the @ONE Web site at:

http://www.cccone.org/de/07fall/seminars/index.htm

Thanks for Attending

For information on Distance Education Workshops go to:

http://www.cccone.org/de/index.htm