Using Office XP in the classroom

Updated: February 8, 2007

Productivity tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn to use the basic features of Microsoft Office XP to help integrate Office into your curriculum.

Step-by-step instructions for how to use time-saving features in Office XP help you organize your classroom, and develop an integrated and collaborative learning environment for your students.

The accompanying instructor presentation offers a guide to the tutorial, suitable for use by an instructor leading a class or for self-paced learning.

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Tutorial information

Productivity tutorial
ItemRequirements

Instructional level

Intermediate user

Advanced user

Curriculum areas

Teacher productivity

Classroom management

Technology

Software required

Microsoft Office XP

Objectives

Receive e-mail messages.

Create personal distribution lists.

Use Click and Type.

Use the WYSIWYG font drop-down list.

Collect and paste information between programs.

Optimize your documents for the Web by using themes.

Add Web interactivity to Microsoft Excel.

Use Web discussions.

Give presentations online.

Tutorial outline

Before you begin
An introduction to the Office XP tutorial and what you will learn.

Touring Office XP
Become familiar with the basic features available in all Office XP applications.

Communicating and collaborating with Office
Learn how to use some of the features in Microsoft Outlook 2002 that help you organize your schedule and your information.

Working on a group project on paper and on the Web
Learn to produce a report that can be printed and delivered on the Internet. After the report is posted there, you can use the dynamic properties of the Internet to keep the information current.

Delivering presentations online
Learn how to easily integrate resources, including charts, tables, clip art, and hyperlinks, into a presentation that you can put on the Web.

Safeguarding applications
Learn how to use some of the features in Office XP that enable the applications in the suite to repair themselves. Windows Installer brings this functionality to you by automatically managing the integrity of the entire suite.

Using reports
Use reports to customize the look of the data contained in a table or query for output to a printer. Group, sort, and manipulate data to present it in the most useful way.

Using Web pages
Create Web pages that display the contents of queries and reports so that anyone with a browser can view your data in an organized manner.

Getting help
Additional information about Office XP is available from several sources. Get answers to your questions, find product support online, and read news about product updates.

Web links to tutorial, instructor presentation, and other resources

Note: To open these files you will need a shareware compression utility, like WinZip or PKZip. You can download a 45-day trial version of the WinZip utility for free.

Microsoft Word fileOffice XP in the classroom (2.2 MB Microsoft Word file)

Microsoft PowerPoint fileInstructor presentation (2.9 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file)


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