Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Microsoft Office 2007 Presented by: David F. Soll Vice President of Advanced Technology Omicron Consulting
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Agenda Introduction Dispelling Myths New File Formats Office Suites Goodbye Menus – Hello Ribbons Where are you File Menu All my keystrokes What Else is New Demonstration
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Introduction Speaker: David Soll Vice President of Advanced Technology Omicron Consulting Founded in 1986 Approximately 150 employees Provides IT Consulting locally, nationally, and internationally Microsoft Gold Partner
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Dispelling Myths Myth 1 – Office 2007 requires Windows Vista This is not true Office 2007 runs fine on: Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Dispelling Myths Myth 2 – You need Office 2007 to view/edit Office 2007 documents This is not true Office 2007 can still open and save files to the old Office 97/2000/XP/2003 formats A free download from Microsoft allows Office 2000, XP, and 2003 create, open, and save to the new Office 2007 formats us/products/HA aspx
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA New File Formats New formats use the old extension plus “X” Word Documents -.docx Excel Spreadsheets -.xlsx PowerPoint Presentations -.pptx The new format is called: Open XML Most data is stored in XML XML is similar to HTML (it’s all just text) HTML describes formatting whereas XML describes data The files are really “ZIP” files Unzip and look inside of the file
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Office Suites Basic Home and Student Standard Small Business Professional Ultimate Professional Plus Enterprise
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Office Suites 1 Volume License customers who purchase Office Professional Plus 2007 or Office Enterprise 2007 may download Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager by visiting the volume licensing services Web site or may request the assistance of their reseller. 2 Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 is available in the U.S. only. 3 Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is scheduled for release in the second quarter of International versions of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 are scheduled for release in the second half of ECM from Microsoft easily extends content management to every information worker in an organization through integration with familiar tools like the Microsoft Office system. 5 The 2007 Microsoft Office System release provides core form creation and completion capabilities, as well as Forms services to facilitate the distribution and management of your electronic forms. 6 The 2007 Microsoft Office system release includes sophisticated IRM capabilities and policy controls designed to help organizations safeguard digital information from unauthorized use.
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Goodbye Menus – Hello Ribbons The old menus are gone They are replaced by “Ribbons” Microsoft has published documents to help guide users of previous versions i.e.: Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide us/word/HA aspx?pid=CH
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Goodbye Menus – Hello Ribbons Ribbons provide more information than menu items There are many ribbons Some ribbons are always accessible Others are context sensitive i.e.: the Table Tools ribbon The “Home” ribbon contains the most common functions Good article on how to use ribbons at: us/help/HA aspx
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Goodbye Menus – Hello Ribbons Note that some ribbons contain a button to open classic pop-up functions Click here To get this
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Where are you File Menu The “File” menu still exists but it may not be so easy to find Look for the Office icon at the top left, click on it to get the File menu (or use Alt-F”)
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA All my keystrokes Microsoft has kept most of the old keystrokes from previous versions of Office Some keystrokes have changed Some keystrokes have disappeared Many new keystrokes have been added Ribbons can be selected with keystrokes Press the Alt key to see available keystrokes Options within the ribbons can then be accessed via keystrokes
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA What Else is New Auto-preview Change fonts, size, etc. and see what it would look like without committing the change SmartArt Lists, Cycles, Hierarchies, Relationships, etc. Formatting New formatting options (especially in Excel) Larger Spreadsheets 1,048,576 rows 16,384 columns Many more subtle changes to ease use
Omicron Consulting 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA Demonstration
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