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Office 2003 Basics

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Microsoft Office 2003 is a software suite that enables home and business users to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and publications; manage their email; and perform a variety of other tasks. This tutorial provides an introduction to the basics of using Office.

Getting Started with Office 2003

  • 1

    What is Office 2003?

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • What is Microsoft Office 2003?

    • What version of Office do I have?

    • Why upgrade to Microsoft Office 2003?

    • How to buy Office 2003

    • Challenge!

  • 2

    Opening and Closing an Office 2003 Program

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    • Introduction

    • Installing Office 2003

    • Activating Office 2003

    • Launching an Office 2003 program

    • Closing a file and exiting an Office 2003 program

    • Closing a file and exiting an Office 2003 program properly

    • Challenge!

  • 3

    Menus

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    • Introduction

    • Office 2003 is designed to be user friendly

    • The menu bar

    • Viewing a menu and executing a command

    • Changing the menu display

    • Challenge!

  • 4

    Toolbars and the Task Pane

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • What is a toolbar?

    • Standard and Formatting toolbars

    • Displaying and hiding toolbars

    • The task pane

    • Challenge!

  • 5

    Dialog Boxes and Wizards

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • What is a dialog box?

    • Dialog boxes in detail

    • What is a wizard?

    • Challenge!

Office 2003 Basics

  • 6

    Creating a New File

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • New files

    • Creating a new file in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2003

    • Creating a new file in Outlook 2003

    • Challenge!

  • 7

    Insert and Delete Text

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • Inserting text

    • Moving the insertion point

    • Backspace and delete

    • Challenge!

  • 8

    Save and Save As

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • How to save a file (step one)

    • How to save a file (step two)

    • How to save a file (step three)

    • The difference between Save and Save As

    • Challenge!

  • 9

    Open an Existing File

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • Opening an existing file

    • The Open dialog box

    • Opening an existing file using the task pane

    • Challenge!

  • 10

    Printing

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • Print Preview

    • Print Preview toolbar

    • Editing text in Print Preview

    • Page Setup

    • Printing

    • Troubleshooting printing problems

    • Challenge!

Working with Office 2003 Files

  • 11

    Selecting Text

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    • 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 Redo

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    • Introduction

    • Undo

    • Undo multiple steps

    • Redo

    • Challenge!

  • 13

    Cut, Copy, Paste, and Drag and Drop

    lesson contents
    • 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 2003

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • Getting help in Office 2003

    • The Office Assistant

    • Using the Office Assistant

    • More Help options: Office on the Web

    • Challenge!

  • 15

    Inserting Media Objects

    lesson contents
    • Introduction

    • Inserting media objects into Office 2003 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

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    • Introduction

    • Recovering lost work

    • The Document Recovery task pane

    • AutoRecover

    • Preventing lost work

    • Challenge!

Extras

  • Quiz

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