The switch from Microsoft Office 2003 to 2007

•Microsoft Word•Microsoft Excel•Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft 2003

Microsoft Word

Interface Changes

This ‘file menu’ is available on all Office products. This is important when you want to print, save or open a document.

Font type Font size

Highlight & font colour

Bullet points

Paragraph justification

Line spacing

The Home Tab

Header & footers for every page

Page numbers edit tool

Text boxArty title

Insert table

Insert picture or clipart

Insert shapes like arrows etc

Insert symbol – modern foreign languages.The Insert Tab

Paragraph indent

Page margins, landscape and portrait orientation & size of paper

Columns for newspapers etc

Picture edit tool

Page background and colour

Picture grouping

Page Layout Tab

Making a table of contents from already used headings

Reference footnotes at the bottom of each page

Format bibliography

Referencing Tab

Administration, helping to create addresses for envelopes and labels

Mail Merge, inserting names, addresses etc from one document or Outlook addresses into current document

Mailing Tab

Spell check

Edit & referencedocument

Shortcut: shift F7

Word count Comment on working document

Restrict formatting, adding password can be done through ‘save’ option

Review Tab

To add a password to the document you need to click on tools, then general options tab

#1 password for the whole document

#2 password to restrict modification

Differing views of the Word window Split window so

that you can see top half of the document whilst you are working on the bottom half

Zoom view

View Tab

After highlighting words or sentences if you hover over the highlighted words a tool bar will appear. Here you can edit font sizes, colour and type etc.

In the top left hand corner next to the save button are the undo and redo buttons.

Importing data and copying information

Editing cell fonts & borders

Cell alignment and merging cells – good for

tables

Changing decimal places and working out

percentages – useful for monitoring assessments

Highlighting data and editing table style

Edit cells Sorting data

Inserting items into worksheet

Creating charts Inserting hyperlinks

Inserting items into worksheet

Page layout is generally used to edit the look of the worksheet; you can edit margins, orientation and also add pictures to the background.

Writing formulae to help with calculations

As this is covering the basics this is a handy tool, however it is also available in the shortcut on the home bar. It sorts your data from highest to lowest or visa versa.

At times when working on an Excel document you don’t know how much will fit on the page… here you can see.

Screen splitting is very handy when using a large amount of data.

Adding new slides

Editing the layout of your slides

Inserting pictures, shapes etcAdding media, this can then be set with the custom animation tool. See Animations

The different PowerPoint templates each have unique fonts, however you can also choose your own background pictures or colours.

Custom animation allows you to let text appear at different times and music and movies to start and end at certain points. You can edit slide transitions on this tab.

Playing and editing the slideshow with timings etc.

The review section allows you to once again review a slideshow without deleting any content.

Having an overview of the slides that you have worked on and also having an overview on the handouts that you can create with this.

The format function appears when you double click on a picture, here you can edit the picture.