Office 2007 training

During the holidays I had the pleasure of helping presenting an Office 2007 training course. Here are copies of the Excel manual, PowerPoint, Crossword (to check if teachers knew the 2007 vocabulary) and Access manual and PowerPoint. Most of the files in 2007, are zipped and I hope they will download and unzip correctly.

Gr 11 and 2007 - Chapter 1.1

Study Opportunities kindly made notes for the packages where people may struggle when they use the Gr 11 and 12 textbooks with Office 2007. These notes are on the web site at studyopportunities.co.za/

With 2007 one needs to show the learners the ribbon, with its tabs. In the corner of groups are arrows which open more dialog boxes. One now refers to the Fluent User Interface and not the GUI. A useful thing – to view the Ruler click on the View tab. Right-clicking is most useful.

I looked at the textbook Chapter 1.1 with the view of using 2007. These are my notes for myself and the learners:

• Gr10_Revision (page S6) - fine
• 1-Toolbars – Be flexible, do orally, show the new features
• 2-Toolbars – Be flexible, do orally, show the new features
• 3-Toolbars – Be flexible, do orally, show the new features
• 4-4-Many things – Be flexible, do orally, show the new features
• 5-Templates – fine
• 6-Resume – Installed or online
• 7-Calendar - Online
• 8-Help – fine
• 9-Protection - TWO ways in screen dumps, ONE way explanation of video
• 10-Help Excel - fine
• 11-EULA - fine
• 14-Table – Checking - Be flexible, show the new features
• 15-CanUseHelp - Be flexible, show the new features
• 16-Checklist - Be flexible, show the new features

Microsoft Office 2007

Have you started using Office 2007? I have found it most frustrating.
I have grown up on the ‘normal’ interface used by XyWrite in the old days, then MSWorks and then various versions of Office until 2003.
We have loaded 2007 on our network as many learners have it at home, and we have to keep up with the (Microsoft) times. It is taking me ages to learn to use this new office software. The frustrating part for me is the different meanings of commands on the Toolbar. Nothing seems to mean the same as it did in 2003.
But in the age of ‘life-long learning’ we must continue to learn.