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• Note that the changes to MS Office are in the visual interface

• Functionality remains very similar to Office 2003

• Ribbons replace Menus
• The Ribbon brings the most popular commands to the forefront.
• The three parts of the Ribbon are tabs, groups, and commands.
• Each section of the ribbon has a dialog box launcher in the lower right corner if there is a corresponding dialog box
• Selecting an image will bring up the tab and ribbon with the corresponding commands
• When you select text and point at it, the Mini toolbar will appear faded. Point to the Mini toolbar to activate it.

• Where’s my Stuff?
• Office button
• Pin documents to most recent list
• File types (.doc/.docx)
• The new Office Open XML Formats (XML is short for Extensible Markup Language). Don’t worry, you don’t have to understand XML; it’s all behind the scenes. Just keep in mind that the new XML-based format:
• Word 2007 can open files created in all previous versions of Word, 1.0 through 2003. Word will open older documents in compatibility mode. You know this because at the top of the document "(Compatibility Mode)" appears next to the name of the file.

• Word Options
• New location of most items previously found in Tools menu under Options



• Home Tab
• Insert Tab
• Page Layout Tab
• Margins
• Page Setup
• Review Tab
• Spell Check
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Easy way to make shortcuts to common tasks
• How to customize the Quick Access Toolbar
• right-click on a command and select "Add to Quick Access Toolbar"
• Location of commonly used tools/features
• Help
• Blue circle with white question mark in top right corner of the window
• Tips
• Double-click the active tab to hide the groups for more room.
• Press ALT to display the Key Tip badges for the Ribbon tabs, the Microsoft Office Button, and the Quick Access Toolbar.
• Zoom using the slider in the lower right corner



• New Feature
• SmartArt Graphics
• Themes
• Math Equations
• New WFU PowerPoint Template

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Online Training

The New Ribbon for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

With the new Ribbon installed on Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, many of the options have different locations than the previous versions of the program. Within these tabs, the user can still access the old Microsoft PowerPoint dialog boxes by clicking on the boxed arrow located at the bottom right of each tab option box.

Tab Contents for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

Home
•Clipboard- includes cut, copy and paste
•Slides- insert new slide, select layout of slide, and reset or delete slides
•Font- select the font style for your presentation
•Paragraph- select bullet or number styles and select text alignment
•Drawing- choose and edit shapes to add into your presentation
•Editing- Editing- find, replace, and select

Insert
•Tables- insert and design tables for your presentation
•Illustrations- select pictures from file, clip art or NEW Smart Art
•Links- insert hyperlinks or create an action for an object to perform when clicked upon
•Text- create text box, header, footer, word art, etc.
•Media Clips- insert movies or sounds

Design
•Page Setup- select size and orientation (portrait or landscape) of your slides
•Themes- select from many professionally designed themes for your slides
•Background- format the background of one or all of your slides

Animations
•Preview- ensure that the animations and transitions you put in place work correctly
•Animations- customize your animations or select from installed animations for your slides
•Transitions- insert transitions from slide to slide

Slide Show
•Start Slide Show - view your show in progression from beginning or from selected slide
•Set Up- edit advanced options for your slide show for rehearsal
•Monitors- edit resolution and try NEW presenter view with dual monitors

Review
•Proofing- use spell check, research, thesaurus, etc.
•Comments- Add new, edit and delete comments for slides
•Protect- allow for restricted or unrestricted access of your presentation

View
•Presentation Views- select from many different viewing formats
•Show/Hide- Ruler around slides and Gridlines on slide
•Zoom- in and out
•Color/Grayscale- view original color form or black and white form of your slides
•Windows- Add more windows to compare changes to slides
•Macros- record new and view already existing macros

New Microsoft PowerPoint Features

Smart Art
The new version of Microsoft PowerPoint is all about organization and visual appeal. With new Smart Art options, any user can achieve exactly what they want when attempting to display and present information. To access the Smart Art options, click on the Insert tab and select the Smart Art icon.

Presenter View
The new Microsoft PowerPoint offers a new Presenter View, in which the presenter can view his or her notes on one monitor while the audience views the presentation through the normal slide show view. As a result, presenting becomes extremely easy and the PowerPoint note fields become very useful. In order to use Presenter View, you must have an external monitor attached to your computer.

To access Presenter View, click on the Slide Show tab, and under the Monitor options check off Use Presenter View
Note: Make sure that your note fields are filled in for each slide previously before entering the Presenter View.