Office 2007 - some training courses

Some of you are already using Office 2007, but many have not seen it before. As we are being transferred over to this new version of Office in the next few days, I thought that some help with training and familiarisation would be useful.

The University has Training & Skills Development courses available and here are the 2007 word processing courses .

One of them is an online course, ' Upgrading to Word 2007' which introduces you to the essential changes in Word 2007, enabling you to start using the program quickly. This is a self-enrolment package which you access via your WebCT account.

Microsoft have also produced online tutorials and the 'Get to know Word 2007' course is helpful, as long as you don't mind the voice! The good news is that you can do the course without the voice, as she is only reading aloud the text which is on the screen.

Other resources show you how to do some of the more complicated tasks in Word and this course from Microsoft would be a useful bookmark for help while you are working on a document.

For the other programs in Office 2007 try this introduction and the full list of training resources here should give you most of what you need.

In addition to the training, there are some useful tools to help you while you are using the new programs:

• a download called Search Command will help you to find where things have moved to
• interactive guides, which you can run from the web or download to your PC, to show you how to find 2003 menu commands in Office 2007
• mapping workbooks, which are spreadsheets listing the location of commands in both suites

Essentially, these are three different ways of helping you with the changeover. Try them all and find the one that suits you best.

If you have any other suggestions, please post a comment on the blog.

David