UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007

Overview

1. The Office Suites

UDs

Campus License Agreement

2. Understanding the User Interface 3. Working with New Office File Formats 4. Getting Further Assistance

1 The Office 2007 Suites

UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
John F. Hall IT-User Services

The Office 2007 Applications

Word 2007 Excel 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Outlook 2007 Access 2007 Publisher 2007 InfoPath 2007 Groove 2007

OneNote 2007 Communicator 2007

+ some others..

Office 2007 Suites

Microsoft Office Basic 2007 Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007 Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007

Complete Comparison Matrix

Enterprise includes all except: Business contact mgr
Accounting

Campus License Agreement

Office 2007 Enterprise Download from udeploy.udel.edu

University Owned Machines Limited Work at home rights for Faculty (soon) Does NOT cover students, grad student personal machines

What will students have?

Most likely Basic or Home & Student or Standard All 3 have Word/Excel May or may not have Outlook, OneNote & PowerPoint Likely wont have Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Groove or Communicator Can get Ultimate for $249

2 Understanding the User Interface

UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007

GUI Redesign :: The Ribbon

GUI Redesign :: Goals

Jensen Harris blog The Why of the New UI Fitts Law

1. The further away something is, the harder it is to click 2. The smaller something is, the harder it is to click

GUI Redesign :: The Ribbon

Office Button

Button Design Matches Vista

GUI Redesign :: The Ribbon

Quick Access Toolbar

Mile High Menus

Magic Corners

Magic Corners on Vista

Right-Clicking

Right-clicking brings up
Mini

Toolbar Context Menu

3 Tips

1. Maximize Office
Creates

Mile-High menus and Magic Corner

2. Right-click for Mini Toolbar & Context Menu 3. Customize Quick Access

Tip #4

Complaint: The ribbon takes up too much space and/or I dont like looking at it all the time Solution: Minimize the Ribbon
Right-click

on Ribbon Double-click any Ribbon tab

Looks like menus, but clicking pops open tabs

Close

when you click an item Easier than dragging menu, esp trackad/pen

3 Working with New Office File Formats

UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
John F. Hall IT-User Services

The X Files

New File Formats

.DOC => .DOCX .PPT => .PPTX .XLS => .XLSX What does this X mean?

The Goal of Open Office XML

to enable the implementation of the Open Office XML formats by the widest set of tools and platforms, fostering interoperability across office productivity applications and line-ofbusiness systems, as well as to support and strengthen document archival and preservation, all in a way that is fully compatible with the large existing investments in Microsoft Office documents.
Lets break that down

Open Office XML

Nothing to do with Open Office or ODF Folder of files compressed with ZIP Open Standard : ECMA-376

Microsoft Apple Barclays BP British Library

Intel Novel Toshiba Library of Congress

Compatibility

Office 2007 will read and write earlier versions Earlier Office versions wont open 2007 docs
You

can add a compatibility pack for 2003 on Windows A converter is available for Word 2007 docs on Macs An add-on allows saving to PDF from 2007

Actually more

PowerPoint .pptx or .pptm - Presentation .ppsx or .ppsm - Show .sldx or .sldm - Slide .potx or .potm - Template Macro-enabled add-in .ppam Office theme .thmx

4 Getting Further Assistance

UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
John F. Hall IT-User Services

Further Training Classes

http://www.present.udel.edu/calendar
2007 1/11/2007 Excel 2007 Access 2007
Word

Help is a click away

Further Online Training

http://office.microsoft.com/enus/help/FX100485361033.aspx?pid=CL10060 5171033 http://office.microsoft.com/enus/training/HA102255331033.aspx

(each

all one line; visit MS links in IE)

http://www.present.udel.edu/lynda

References

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx Save as PDF Add-in

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx

?familyid=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B63B07BA5F2E5&displaylang=en

Mac XML converter

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pi

d=download&location=/mac/download/Office2004 /ConverterBeta_0_2.xml