Office 2000: New Features

Course description

Overview: This course serves as a quick reference to features added or improved since Office 97 and guides students through the transition process.

Prerequisites: Students enrolling in this course should be comfortable in the Windows environment; they should have completed one of the following courses: Windows 95: Introduction, Windows 98: Introduction, Windows NT 4.0: Introduction, or have equivalent knowledge. In addition, this course assumes that students have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office 97.

Target student: It is recommended that students have introductory-level knowledge of at least two of the three core Office applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and also have familiarity with an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer. This course does not assume that students have experience with the Office 2000 versions of these applications.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

*     Use and customize components of the interface common to all Office 2000 programs, including the Office Assistant and online Help, adaptive menus and toolbars, and common dialog boxes.

*     Use new features of Word 2000, Excel 2000, and PowerPoint 2000 that make it faster and easier to perform everyday tasks.

*     Use new and improved features across the suite, including the Clipboard toolbar, ClipArt Gallery, and email tools.

*     Complete basic Web authoring tasks in Office 2000 including saving, previewing, and managing HTML files; create Web documents in each Office program that take advantage of new features related to Web authoring.

Course content

Lesson 1: The Office 2000 interface

Introducing Office 2000

The Help interface

Adaptive menus and toolbars

Common dialog boxes

Lesson 2: New features in individual applications

New features in Word 2000

Table features in Word 2000

New features in Excel 2000

New features in PowerPoint 2000

Lesson 3: New features in Office 2000 across the suite

Collect and Paste

The ClipArt Gallery

Office email integration

Lesson 4: Creating Web documents in Office 2000

The basics of Web authoring

Creating Web documents in Word 2000

Creating Web documents in Excel 2000

Creating Web documents in PowerPoint 2000