good transistion plan

1. James Crowley
C3 – Crowley Computer Consulting
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 TO
OFFICE 2007 TRANSITION

2. Quiz
What version of Office do you
use? What edition?
 95  Basic
 97  Home and Student
 2000  Standard
 2002  Small Business Edition
 2003  Professional
 2007  Ultimate

3. Quiz
 Do you love Office?
 Have you tried alternatives? Like
WordPerfect, Lotus, OpenOffice
 What is the cost of Office? And what is the
Return On Investment in your application?
 What do you want to learn today?

4. Versions and pricing

5. Versions and extras

6. Where is help?

7. Where is help?
 ? Button in upper right hand corner of
window.
 Office help programs access Microsoft web pages
for improved results.
 Web searches, Google works!

8. The Ribbon – heart of the
new User Interface (UI)
 Same commands, new places
 No menus
 One toolbar
 Not customizable
 Easy to learn, but tough to unlearn menus
and toolbars
 More extensive tooltips
 Most items will preview

9. Ribbons
In… Out…
 Access  OneNote
 Excel  Publisher
 PowerPoint  Accounting Express
 Word  Groove
 Open items of Outlook  Infopath
(mail, contacts, appointme  Main Outlook screen
nts)

10. Cutting the Ribbon to pieces
 Tabs
 Groups
 Commands
 Dialog boxes

11. Lost commands
 Many
specific, contextual
commands do not
show on the ribbon
until the proper
context is available. For
example, there are no
picture formatting
commands until a
picture is inserted or
selected.

12. Ribbons adjust to fill window

13. Mice are for wimps
 Navigate the Ribbon by
tapping the Alt key and
then resulting KeyTips.
 ESC moves to previous
selection
 There are many
keyboard shortcuts.
 Most are unchanged from
older Office editions.
 From Help, search for
“keyboard shortcuts.”

14. Where did my ribbon go?
Minimize the Ribbon Click on tab titles to use
To minimize or restore the ribbon:
•Choose Minimize the Ribbon or Restore the Ribbon from the Customize Quick Access Toolbar
•Double-click on the active tab name
•Press Ctrl+F1

15. Microsoft Office Button
 Think of the 2003 File
menu
 Application options are
found on the bottom
right.

16. Quick Access Toolbar
 Only easily customized
part of the UI
 Ribbon can be
customized
programmatically and
via add-on apps
 Save, Undo and Redo
 Customize menu

17. Customizing the Quick Access
Toolbar
 Select common tools
from menu
 Add more tools from
More Commands…
 Show below or above
the Ribbon

18. But not everyone has Office
2007!
 Office 2007 can run on Windows Vista and Xp
 All users running Office 2003 through
2000, running Windows 2000 or newer should
install the compatibility pack from
 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp
x?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-
c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
 Or Google “microsoft office compatibility pack”
and it will be the first link
 There are always winners and losers…

19. Smart Art

20. Smart Art Tools: Design

21. Smart Art Tools: Format

22. Applications
Reviewed Not reviewed
 Word  Accounting Express
 Excel  Groove
 Outlook  InfoPath
 PowerPoint  OneNote
 Publisher
 Access

23. Accounting Express
 Accounting by Microsoft. Can they supplant
QuickBooks?

24. Groove
 Groove is like instant
messaging with
application sharing.
Allows for
collaboration
anywhere you have an
Internet connection.

25. InfoPath
 Server based technology to create web
browser fillable forms, manage form
templates and collect data. Use requires a
Share Point server.

26. OneNote
 Note-taking and
information-
management in
electronic notebooks
that can be shared.
 Notebooks on steroids!
 Incredible with a
tablet.