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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.
Target Student
It is recommended that students have familiarity with an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer. This course does not assume that students have experience with the Office XP 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 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.
Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
What's next
Students who want to learn specific features of any of the Office XP applications can take individual Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, or FrontPage courses. Multiple levels of courseware cover each application.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
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
Hardware/software Requirements
To run this course, you will need:
- A Pentium 133 MHz or higher processor with a minimum of 64 MB of RAM for the operating system and an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office application running simultaneously. (For Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE, 24 MB of RAM for the operating system. For Windows Me or Windows NT, 32 MB of RAM for the operating system.)
- A minimum of 520 MB of free hard-disk space.
- Either a local CD-ROM drive or access to a networked CD-ROM drive for installation purposes.
- A floppy-disk drive.
- A Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device.
- A Super VGA or higher resolution monitor.
- Microsoft Windows 98 or later, or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack - 6x or higher installed.
- A complete installation of Microsoft Office XP.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher.
See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup.
In addition, you will need an installed printer driver.
Note: This course was developed using the Windows 2000 platform. However, the manufacturer?s documentation states that Office XP can also run on Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6x.
