Office XP
This series explains and introduces new and changed features in Office XP applications. Targeted for experienced Office users, the courses in this series highlight the new features of Office XP including task panes, smart tags, and SharePoint Team Services. Additionally, a course is devoted to discussing the most important changes to Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and FrontPage. The entire series features the XP interface in the screen captures.
This series is for anyone who is upgrading to Office XP and wants to become familiar with the new and changed features of the product. This online course contains 3 lessons and should take approximately 10 hours to complete.
Getting Around in the New Interface
This course provides an introduction to the new look and features of Office XP applications and teaches you how to activate Office XP, use the new look of Office XP, search, create new documents, and view the clipboard using the new task panes, recognize and use text buttons and smart tags, and find help with the new Help functions in Office XP.
New Options and Tools
This course shows users how to take advantage of the new or changed features and preferences that are included in Office XP and teaches you how to set security and browser compatibility options, use Office XP's new tools to recover from crashes and errors, compress pictures and insert hyperlinks for Web publication, add diagrams to Office documents, and use SharePoint Team Services sites to trade information about a group project.
Application Changes
This course shows users the most important new or changed features in each of the Office applications and teaches you how to change formatting in Word, use the new group collaboration features for document reviews, use XML with Excel and Access, check for errors in Excel tables, use account groups in Outlook, create group schedules and meetings in Outlook, password-protect PowerPoint presentations, use Access's new database format, use the page tabs and navigation pane in FrontPage, and take advantage of FrontPage's modified publishing features.