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Workshop I: Getting Up to Speed with Office 2010 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote

with Micah Orloff

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 9:00am - Thu, 06/03/2010 - 4:00pm (Pacific Time)

Description
Microsoft Office 2010 offers new features to visually enhance your work and advanced capabilities to share and team up with others. Office 2010 gives you more multimedia design options to give life to your ideas. Creating amazing results only a few mouse clicks away. The customizable Ribbon and tabs lets you quickly access commands and personalize the application suite to fit your work style.

With Microsoft Web Apps and Mobile, Office 2010 gives you the freedom to access the applications using the web and portable devices. Collaborate synchronously and stay connected to your files across town or around the world. And even broadcast your presentations to a remote audience.

In this workshop, you’ll explore what’s new and learn tips and tricks for Microsoft Office 2010. By the end of this 3-day hands-on workshop, you’ll have acquired skills to make your everyday computing tasks easier, visually compelling and accessible to the world.

Audience

This workshop is intended for faculty and staff who want to be more productive with MS Office products, while learning about the latest changes in Office 2010.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Explore the new and enhanced MS Office 2010 environment
Learn the major updates in Office 2010 and how they relate to previous Office versions
Use the ribbon/ Backstage to create, format, and enhance documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote
Implement time-saving shortcuts by using KeyTips, Quick Styles, Themes and Built-In Building Blocks
Use, edit and create time-saving templates
Learn to set basic properties in Excel to help organize and identify documents
Apply special character attributes and cell styles in Excel
Make the most of the contextual tabs and live preview features in Office 2010
Enhance presentations with custom layouts, SmartArt, Quick Styles, Themes, and image editing
Create and share an Office 2010 project.

Prerequisites

To be successful in this workshop, you need to have basic computer skills, and at least some experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.