Office XP Basics

Getting Started with Office XP

• 1

  What is Office XP?

  

  • Introduction

  • What is Microsoft Office XP?

  • What version of Office do I have?

  • Why upgrade to Microsoft Office XP?

  • How to buy Office XP

  • Challenge!

• 2

  Opening and Closing an Office XP Program

  

  • Introduction

  • Installing Office XP

  • Activating Office XP

  • Launching an Office XP program

  • Closing a file and exiting an Office XP program

  • Closing a file and exiting an Office XP program properly

  • Challenge!

• 3

  Menus

  

  • Introduction

  • Office XP is easy to use

  • The menu bar

  • Viewing a menu and executing a command

  • Changing the menu display

  • Challenge!

• 4

  Toolbars and the Task Pane

  

  • Introduction

  • What is a toolbar?

  • Standard and formatting toolbars

  • Displaying and hiding toolbars

  • The task pane

  • Challenge!

• 5

  Dialog Boxes and Wizards

  

  • Introduction

  • What is a dialog box?

  • Dialog boxes in detail

  • What is a wizard?

  • Challenge!

Office XP Basics

• 6

  Creating a New File

  

  • Introduction

  • New files

  • Creating a new file in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2002

  • Creating a new file in Outlook 2002

  • Challenge!

• 7

  Insert and Delete Text

  

  • Introduction

  • Inserting text

  • Moving the insertion point

  • Backspace and Delete

  • Challenge!

• 8

  Save and Save As

  

  • Introduction

  • How to save a file

  • How to save a file

  • How to save a file

  • The difference between Save and Save As

  • Challenge!

• 9

  Open an Existing File

  

  • Introduction

  • Opening an existing file

  • The Open dialog box

  • Opening an existing file using the task pane

  • Challenge!

• 10

  Printing

  

  • Introduction

  • Print Preview

  • The Print Preview toolbar

  • Editing text in Print Preview

  • Page Setup

  • Printing

  • Troubleshooting printing problems

  • Challenge!

Working with Office XP Files

• 11

  Selecting Text

  

  • Introduction

  • Selecting text

  • Second method: Use the pointer to select the entire line of text

  • Third method: Select All

  • Fourth method: Use the keyboard

  • Troubleshooting selection techniques

  • Challenge!

• 12

  Using Undo and Repeat

  

  • Introduction

  • Undo

  • Undo multiple steps

  • Redo

  • Challenge!

• 13

  Cut, Copy, Paste, and Drag and Drop

  

  • Introduction

  • Moving and copying text and graphics

  • Copying or moving a single item

  • Copying multiple items

  • Drag and drop

  • Challenge!

• 14

  Help Features in Office XP

  

  • Introduction

  • Getting help in Office XP

  • The Office Assistant

  • Using the Office Assistant

  • More Help options: Contents, Answer Wizard, and Index

  • More Help options: Ask a Question box

  • More Help options: What's This?

  • More Help options: Office on the Web

  • Challenge!

• 15

  Inserting Media Objects

  

  • Introduction

  • Inserting media objects into Office XP files

  • Browsing clips

  • Searching for clips

  • Inserting clips

  • Adding clips to the Clip Organizer

  • Formatting clips

  • Inserting images from a scanner or camera

  • Challenge!

• 16

  Document Recovery

  

  • Introduction

  • Recovering lost work

  • The Document Recovery task pane

  • AutoRecover

  • Preventing lost work

  • Challenge!

Extras

• Getting Help Using the Office Assistant in Office XP

• Recovering Lost Work in Office XP

• Learn More About Office XP

• How to Save a File in Office XP

• Quiz