Microsoft Office 97 to Office XP: New Features

Course description

Overview: This course serves as a quick reference to new and improved features 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 2000: Introduction, or have equivalent knowledge. In addition, this course assumes that students have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office 97.

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 XP programs, including adaptive menus and toolbars, task panes, common dialog boxes, and the Office Assistant and online Help.

*     Use new and improved features across the suite, including the Office Clipboard, the Media Gallery, e-mail tools, the Office Template Gallery, and organization charts.

*     Explore and use new document management features across the suite, including Detect and Repair, the Save My Settings Wizard, and the Privacy feature, to manage your documents and the Office XP environment.

*     Perform basic Web authoring tasks in Office XP, including saving, previewing, and managing HTML files, review the basic features of the Microsoft Document Imaging and Microsoft Document Scanning applications, and work with Microsoft Photo Editor.

Course Content

Lesson 1: The Office XP Interface

Introducing Office XP

Adaptive Menus and Toolbars

Task Panes

Common Dialog Boxes

The Help Interface

Lesson 2: New Features in Office XP Across the Suite

Collect and Paste

The Media Gallery

Office E-mail Integration

The Office Template Gallery

Organization Charts

Lesson 3: Document Management

Data Recovery

Security Options

Administrative Features

Lesson 4: Working with Web Documents and Other Office XP Applications

The Basics of Web Authoring

Additional Office XP Applications