Microsoft Office Documentation

Office:

Manipulate Clipart Graphics and Other Shapes
All about using pictures. clipart, shapes and other graphics in Microsoft applications.

Tips and Shortcuts
How shortcut key combinations and other tips and shortcuts can make your work easier.

What's New in Office
All about the differences in the latest version of Office.

Excel:

Basics
An introduction to Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet application.

Charts
How to create charts in Excel.

Formulas and Functions
Write and copy your own formulas as well as use some of Excel's built-in functions.\Protect Cells
Protect formulas, or any other information, so that either yourself or someone with whom you share the workbook can't remove or edit them

Sort and Filter           
How to sort and filter lists in Excel.  Includes inserting subtotals.

Tools and Tips
Advanced features and some tips for the day-to-day user.

PowerPoint:

Advanced Presentations
Advanced concepts in PowerPoint including animation, transition, slide master, charting and adding sound and hyperlinks.  A knowledge of PowerPoint basics will be helpful.

Basic Presentations
The basics of using PowerPoint for your presentations.  Several insert features will be shown along with headers & footers, how to edit slides and simple transitions.

Publisher:

Get Creative with Publisher
The basics of using publisher, using a brochure as an example.

Word:

Bullets and Numbering
Using bullets and numbered lists.

Citations and Bibliographies
Microsoft Word can automatically generate a bibliography of the sources used to write a paper.  Learn how to create and edit a citation and a placeholder.  Create and update a bibliography with a simple click of a button.

Columns
Learn how to create columns within your document.  Learn to use section breaks and column breaks to place your text and graphics just where you want them.  Manipulate gutter and column width.

Create Your First Document                
Learn how to create, format, save and print a document in Word 2007.

Find Data Fast
Use Find and Replace, how to bookmark areas in a document and add hyperlinked text for quick access data.

Mail Merges
Step-by-step directions for creating a mail merge in Word.

Manage Long Documents
Using and formatting cover pages, table of contents, and headers and footers.

Page Breaks and Section Breaks
Page breaks and section breaks are two different tools. Learn when to use each.  How to create a landscape page within a portrait style document, how to change the header or footer in one section and not the other.

Quick Parts
Similar to Auto Text, with the tap of a finger, frequently repeated words or phrases can be inserted.

Save Time Using Templates
Creating and using templates in Word.

Tables and Electronic Forms
Use Word to create a form to be filled out without losing your labels.  Learn each control or placeholder and how to manipulate the properties and create instructional text.  Add to dropdown choices.  Learn how to protect your document and restrict to only filling out the form.

Track Changes & Make Comments Electronically
Save a tree!  Grade papers and work on documents electronically.  See the markups and comments others have made.  You will learn how to turn on the markups and how to turn them off.  There are many options how to view the markups.