Stian Skogly Microsoft Office 2007 a package of softwares

An introduction to Microsoft Office 2007

by

Stian Skogly

Microsoft Office 2007

• A package of softwares

• Word – text editor
• Excel – spreadsheet
• PowerPoint – presentations
• Outlook – e-mail
• Access – database
• Publisher – brochures, calendars, postcards, etc.
• +++

• The current versions are Office 2007 which was released on January 30 in 2007.

Microsoft Word 2007

Microsoft word

• Text processor to create documents

• Templates for different types of documents

• Web pages

Simple formatting

• Text: Font, size, color, bold/italic/underline

• Layout: Bullets, numbering, alignment

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint

• Software to make presentations

• Templates and different designs

• Same menues as Microsoft Word

How to make a nice presentation

• Text

• Font should be easy to read
• Text color with high contrast to the background
• Big font size
• Less text is better
• Use the same formatting throughout the presentation

• Pictures and figures

• Choose understandable figures
• Pictures with high quality
• Pictures and figures should be relevant

Presentation

• Be careful with use of animations

• Know what you are presenting

• Don’t read from the slide
• Speak to the people
• Speak loudly
• Practice before presentation!

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

• Mathematical software

• Spreadsheets to make stastitical calculations

Microsoft Excel

• Formula for calculations of different results in a set of data

• In data
• Out data

• Graphical view of statistics

For your project

• Mean (average)
• Percentile / quartile
• Maximum / minimum
• Standard deviation