Microsoft Office

Using Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Office is available, free of charge, for home use by all faculty and staff. Visit the Technology Support Center in Lee S-142 or contact training@edison.edu for more information.
• Free alternatives for students include OpenOffice and Google Docs
• Office 2007 is installed in all Edison College computer labs and in the Faculty Tech Center workstations.
• Faculty and staff can get Office 2007 installed on College computers after taking an Office 2007 Basics workshop and then requesting installation through the Help Desk.

What's new in Office 2007

• The Office Button
• The Ribbon
• Tabs
  • Contextual Tabs
• Live Preview
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Mini Toolbar
• New file format*

*The file formats for many Office programs are now different and end in an x. For example, Word documents in Word 2003 and earlier were .doc files, with Word 2007 they are .docx files. Word 2003 cannot open .docx files. A computer that does not have Office 2007 installed can still open Office 2007 files with the free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Alternatively, when working in Office 2007 you have the option of saving as a 2003 compatible file. See the Important information about sharing Office documents link below for more information.

Edison College Produced Training Materials

• Important information about sharing Office documents
• Sample documents (instructions to open)
  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
• Use Mail Merge in Word to create labels from an Excel Open Close Report
• Excel Workshop Outline
• Open a Works wps file in Word

Developer Produced Training Materials

• Getting Started Guide
• Microsoft Help and How-to Homepage
• Microsoft Office Systems Courses
• Creating Your First Presentation
• PowerPoint in Education
• Word in Education
• Press F1 or click the blue ? in the top right corner of any Office 2007 program for Help

Workshops

The following related workshops are offered to faculty and staff by Edison College Technology Training:
(click for description)

• Office 2007 Basics
• Microsoft Word Basics
• Microsoft Excel Basics
• Microsoft PowerPoint Basics
• Microsoft Word Intermediate
• Microsoft Excel Intermediate
• Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate
• PowerPoint: Impatica
• Respondus

Request or register for Workshops through the Professional Development channel on the Faculty/Staff Services tab in the myEdison Portal or email training@edison.edu.

PowerPoint Enhancements

These are some programs and products that are specifically designed to work with Microsoft PowerPoint to provide additional functionality.

• Impatica - reduces file size, allows for easy sharing of presentations online, prevents presentation modification
• Turning Point - student response system

To get higher quality images when saving slides as jpg or png files, first, modify the registry to increase the exported dpi to 300 (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827745/en-us), then, go to Page Setup in PowerPoint to set the output size (see
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/5/indepth/saving-ppt-as-images.asp). For assistance with this process submit a help desk ticket or contact the Technology Trainer.