What’s New in Microsoft Office 2007? Covering Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Office New Look Office Button Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon Tabs Ribbon Tab Group Ribbon
Office The Ribbon contains most of the items that were on the Formatting Toolbar. Home contains most of the commands that were on the Insert Menu. Insert contains document proofing commands, such as spelling & grammar check. Review contains most of the commands that were on the View Menu. View
Office Status Bar & Mini Toolbar Zooming Page Views
Office Live Preview Text changes as you hover
Office SmartArt™ From the Insert Menu
Exercise #1 Open exercise1.docx Follow the instructions Ask for help if you need it
Word 2007 – The Ribbon
Word Building Blocks
Word Full Screen Reading
Exercise #2
Excel 2007 – The Ribbon Page Layout - items that were on the Format Menu, plus Page Setup commands. Formulas – functions, named ranges, auditing, and calculation options. Data – items that were on the Data Menu, plus commands for getting external data.
Excel 2007 – Excel Tables Managed as a group Automatic Name Dynamic Table Tools tab called Design Calculated Columns
Excel 2007 – Conditional Formatting
Excel 2007 – Other Changes Headers & Footers easier to add and edit Spreadsheet size can be 1 million rows and 16,000 columns.
Exercise #3 Open exercise3.xlsxFollow the instructionsAsk for help if you need it
PowerPoint 2007 – The Ribbon Design - items that were on Slide Design option on the Format Menu. Animations – animation and transition options that were on the Slide Show Menu. Slide Show – commands that were on the Slide Show Menu.
PowerPoint 2007 – Custom Layouts
Exercise #4
Office 2007 – More Information Microsoft Office Help – Demos. There are several Demos available for Office The ones titled “Up to speed with 2007” are a good place to start. – Cross-references (Office 2003 v. Office 2007). If you are can’t find a command that you used in Office 2003, you can use an interactive tool in Office Help to find it. The 2007 Microsoft Office System - Learning Portal – Several free courses (E-Learning) are available from Microsoft. Go to: to look through the course catalogue and sign up.