Conference+-+Office+2007+Essentials

=**Keeping up to Speed with Office 2007 Essentials**=


 * Where:** []
 * When:** Friday, Apr 25, 2008 9:32 AM (PST)
 * Who:** Stephanie Krieger.
 * Duration:** 1 hour 33 minutes

The conference started off by an introduction into in to what it was about and the topics they were going to cover throughout the presentation. The topic of the presentation is the essentials off Office 2007, the point of the presentation was to show a quick overview of the new software and to compare what was different between 2007 and the previous version of Office. The first topic Stephanie covered was the Ribbon of the interface, she navigated around the Ribbon and explained where everything was in comparison to the previous Office, explained the advantages of the Ribbon, such as a much cleaner layout and less digging through menus to find the tool you want. Stephanie also covered all the new stuff in 2007, such as the Styles. Regularly, the presenter makes the point that most new users argument would be which is “I knew where everything was placed before, now it just takes longer to find the stuff.” Stephanie showed us a tool called the “Interface Command Reference Guide”, she explained that this can be used online, or offline and is ran though flask player, what the tool does is it shows the old Office interface and allows you to hover over the buttons, when you do this it bring up a text box that describes where this button is located on the Office 2007 interface or if you click, it shows you where it is, I thought this was a good idea for people who are so used to the previous Office. Stephanie explained that if anyone who was used to using the keyboard “accelerator keys” (hotkeys) from Office 2003, would still work in Office 2007. Office 2007 tells you when you are using an Office 2003 hotkey. Also she explained that if any of your hotkeys are not in Office 2007, you can just add them to the “quickbar” at the top left of the interface and use the “key tips” to access it quickly, key tips are when you press Alt and it labels the Ribbon with letters so you can just press the corresponding key to select that option. Stephanie goes though the rest of the office software, pretty much repeating everything just to show that it is all the same through-out the entire suite, such as the auto complete in excels and the FX button and that all the formula are the same plus more.