Making the Most of Powerful Software

Do you often find that you, your colleagues and students can’t make the best use of new and existing IT resources, just because you don't have the funding and time for training and self-development?

How Office 2007 Can Help

Office 2007 makes it easier than ever to find and use new and existing features. So you and your students can engage in a more creative and interactive experience, producing richer materials and performing more sophisticated analysis – without the need for extra training.

• A fully redesigned Fluent interface replaces traditional menus and toolbars with a results-oriented design, including:

• The innovative Ribbon, with Contextual Tabs that display the most relevant commands for each of the task areas in an application.

• Galleries, which present a set of formatting options to choose from when working on a document that can be achieved with a single click.

• The features you and your students need most, such as table formatting and adding references, are clearly visible and easily accessed.
• Sophisticated document formatting tools are just one or two clicks away.
• Inserting illustrations, sounds and film clips is easy.

• See the new user interface in action
• Read about Stoke College’s experience with the new Fluent interface

Improving Creativity

You can feel under pressure to produce professional looking teaching materials, while your students want to submit coursework that shows their efforts in the best light. How do you avoid the ‘digital divide’ between those who have the high-level ICT skills required – and those who don’t?

How Office 2007 Can Help

Office 2007 makes it easy for anyone to create high-quality documents and express their creativity. So you, your colleagues and students can produce work you’re proud of – helping build confidence and giving a greater sense of achievement.

• The SmartArt graphics feature gives users a library of templates and predefined shapes that can be quickly inserted and configured. It provides automatic sizing and alignment, while offering the flexibility to edit objects and properties.
• Picture Tools let users apply themes from galleries of images, and ensure a consistent appearance across documents and worksheets.
• The new Live Preview capability makes it simple to preview a formatting change by pointing to an option, and clicking to commit to it.

Introducing Innovative Learning Tools

Do you find your students are demanding new ways of learning and sharing information, and you need to provide this in an effective and secure way?

How Office 2007 Can Help

Office 2007 enables students to learn and share information using innovative new tools, with maximum impact and minimal risk – which means your students can use new ways of learning to expand their horizons.

• Office 2007 supports methods of working that more sophisticated users demand, such as wikis, blogging and collaborative document authoring.
• SharePoint 2007 gives you the option to create your own secure environment to host these tools, or students the option to publish their content on the Internet, extending their education beyond the classroom.

Promoting Effective Note-taking, Sharing and Management

Do you find that electronic note-taking and sharing can be slow and time-consuming, while paper note-taking is inefficient and unreliable?

How Office 2007 Can Help

OneNote 2007, part of Office 2007, is a highly effective note-taking tool that helps users collate multimedia notes, manage them easily and publish them at the click of a button.

• Users can bring together and structure different media within a single electronic notepad, such as handwritten or typed notes, images, speech, video clips and audio.
• In lessons, lectures and meetings, it’s easy to capture information using a keyboard, stylus (handwriting recognition) or microphones.
• Collating notes is simple. Users can print any file – including Web pages and PDF documents – to OneNote instead of to a printer. This embeds the file into a document, which can then be searched and viewed.
• Drag-and-drop organisation, automatic structuring and user tagging means information can be saved, filed and published electronically with minimal effort.
• OneNote lets you search more content, including text in pictures and scanned documents, and spoken words within audio and video recordings.
• Information is easily shared, for example by blogging using the ‘Publish this’ feature.

• Find out more about OneNote 2007
• Try OneNote 2007 now
• See a demo of OneNote 2007
• Read how Kingston University used OneNote 2007

Making ICT Available to Everyone

You work with individuals of all ages and abilities. If technology fails to meet these varying needs, there is the risk that some groups may fall behind their peers, or find learning less accessible.

How Office 2007 Can Help

Accessibility features in Office 2007 can be configured to meet the needs of all students and staff. So you can have improved accessibility for all – enabling individuals to excel, whatever their ability.

• Office 2007 has improved support for screen readers, magnifiers, speech recognition, alternative displays, and other assistive technologies.
• Office Document Imaging turns scanned documents to text files that can be read aloud by Narrator, the new text-to-speech tool.
• Diagrams, charts, documents and email can be created without a mouse or keyboard. Office 2007 works with Windows Vista Speech Recognition.
• SharePoint Designer 2007 includes a built-in compatibility checker for common accessibility standards to ensure Web sites are easy to use by all.