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Access    |    Excel    |    FrontPage    |    Internet Explorer    |    Outlook    |    PowerPoint    |    Publisher   |    Word

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Microsoft Office 2003 Suite

Access
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online training

Creating Databases and Tables
Getting Started

Excel
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online training

Advanced Formatting
Changing the Screen Display
Charts
Collaboration
Comments
Creating Workbooks
Database Management
Enhancing Worksheets changing font attributes, copy formatting, merge and center, indent text, add borders and shading
Filtering Lists using AutoFilter
Finding and Replacing
Formatting Worksheets Inserting and deleting cells, rows, columns, changing column width and row height, apply numeric formats, changing alignment of data
Formulas
Functions
Getting Started
Macros
Modifying Worksheets Copying, moving, deleting, save options
Multiple Worksheets
Print Options
Protecting Data
Sorting
Using Names

FrontPage
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online Training

Introduction to FrontPage for department webmasters

Outlook
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online Training

Email
Sending Attachments
Opening Attachments
Creating a Distribution List

Deleting and retrieving items

E-Mail Merge using Excel
Rules Wizard

Calendar
Appointments and Events
Printing
Rescheduling appointments
Scheduling Meetings

Contacts
Add a contact
Automatically add a contact from an email message
Create a Distribution List

Tasks
Create a task

Notes
Create a note
 

PowerPoint
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online Training

Building Slide Shows Expanding slides, creating summary slides, adding transition effects and custom animation, inserting slides from other presentations
Charts
Customizing Changing color schemes, formatting backgrounds, creating custom slide shows
Delivering a Presentation  Saving for the web, saving for automatic launch
Editing a Presentation
Formatting Text
Getting Started
Linking Slides 
Multimedia Adding sound clips, motion clips, and pictures
PowerPoint in 30 minutes
Preparing Presentations  Speaker notes, recording comments during the show, changing the type of slide show
Printing Presentations
Proofing Tools Spelling, style consistency, AutoCorrect entries
Running a Slide Show Hiding slides, controlling slide shows, annotating slides
Tables
Templates Applying design templates, modifying master slides, using the Autocontent Wizard
Using the Outline Pane
WordArt and ClipArt
Working with Objects Drawing objects and AutoShapes

Publisher
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online Training

Word
Microsoft Office Support Center
Online Training

Advanced Formatting  Modifying text flow, inserting section breaks, formatting consistency
Collaboration Sending a document for review, comments, tracking changes
Columns
Copying formatting
Create and Save Documents
Endnotes
Envelopes and labels
Find and Replace
Footnotes
Forms Create forms with data entry and calculated fields
Form Letters Mail Merge
Formatting paragraphs  Alignment, spacing, setting tabs, indenting, numbered and bulleted lists
Formatting the page  Margins, vertical alignment, orientation
Getting Started
Headers and Footers
Index (creating)
Inserting Date and Time
Keyboard shortcuts
Mailing labels  Mail merge to create labels
Merging Envelopes Mail merge to create envelopes
Proofing  Spelling and grammar checker, thesaurus
Shortcuts
Tables
Tables of Contents
Tables of Figures

Internet

Internet Explorer Shortcuts (version 5.5 and 6)

 

 

 
 
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