Microsoft Office 2007 Guides

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Written by Kevin Arscott

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 10:47

Microsoft Office 2007 has a completely new interface which is designed to make it easier to find the functions you need. Whilst this may be the case for new users, old users may find it disconcerting at first to get to grip with the new menu system.

Video - Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office system
Video - The new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface

What's new in Office 2007

The following guides are provided online by Microsoft.

What's new in Microsoft Office Access 2007
What's new in Microsoft Office Excel 2007
What's new in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
What's new in Microsoft Office Word 2007

Finding functions in Office 2007

If you are looking for a particular function in Office 2007 and you cannot find it, then the following interactive guides from Microsoft allow you to find the function in Office 2003 and the guide will then tell you exactly where this function is in Office 2007.

Interactive: Access 2003 to Access 2007 command reference guide [Online] [Download]
Interactive: Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 command reference guide [Online] [Download]
Interactive: Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 command reference guide [Online] [Download]
Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 command reference guide [Online] [Download]
Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide [Online] [Download]

Moving from Office 2003 to Office 2007

These PDF guides from the University of Liverpool are a really good printable introduction to Office 2007 for those people moving from Office 2003 (or earlier).

Moving from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007

Moving from Word 2003 to Word 2007

Moving from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007

Moving from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007

Self-study guides

Introduction to Outlook 2007

Introduction to PowerPoint 2007

Further PowerPoint 2007

Introduction to Access 2007

Online training from Microsoft

If you want to learn the basics of Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 then this online training program will do this.

Training course - Up-to-speed with Word 2007
Training course - Up-to-speed with Excel 2007
Training course - Up-to-speed with PowerPoint 2007

Online demos

If you don't have time to complete the training courses, then you might just wish to view the demos.

Demo - Up-to-speed with Word 2007
Demo - Up-to-speed with Excel 2007
Demo - Up-to-speed with PowerPoint 2007

Getting started with new programs

Office 2007 offers two new programs, OneNote and InfoPath, the University of Liverpool have provided detailed guides to these programs as well.

Getting started with OneNote 2007

Getting started with InfoPath 2007

Detailed tutorials

Once you have got to grips with the basics you might want to find out more about a particular Office 2007 program. The Florida Gulf Coast University has produced these very helpful web pages showing you how to do pretty much anything you need to.

Florida Gulf Coast University's Word 2007 tutorials
Florida Gulf Coast University's Excel 2007 tutorials
Florida Gulf Coast University's PowerPoint 2007 tutorials

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:33

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