Online Learning
Microsoft offers online Office 2007 courses. Individual courses are $14.99, and collections of related courses can be bought at a reduced price.
The following free resources are organized by knowledge level:
I'm an Office beginnerReview these seven tutorials to cover Office 2007 basics (total time: approximately four hours):
- Getting up to speed in MS Office 2007– an overview (20 minutes long)
- Getting up to speed in MS Word 2007– an overview (30 minutes long)
- Creating your first document in Word 2007 (30 minutes long)
- Getting up to speed in MS PowerPoint 2007– an overview (40 minutes long
- Create your first PowerPoint 2007 presentation (50 minutes long)
- Getting up to speed in MS Excel 2007– an overview (30 minutes long)
- Creating your first Excel 2007 workbook (40 minutes long)
If you know a little about each program, you'll find these tutorials helpful.
Review these six Word 2007 tutorials (total time: approximately four hours):
- Getting up to speed in Word 2007 (40 minutes long)
- Creating your first document in Word 2007 (30 minutes long)
- Headers and footers in Word 2007 (50 minutes long)
- Backgrounds, borders and text effects (50 minutes long)
- Bullets, lists and numbers (30 minutes)
- Making edits and revisions to your Word 2007 document (30 minutes long)
Review these five Excel 2007 tutorials (total time: approximately 3 hours):
- Getting up to speed in Excel 2007 (40 minutes long)
- Creating your first Excel 2007 workbook (40 minutes long)
- Entering formulas in Excel 2007 (50 minutes long)
- Creating a chart in Excel 2007 (30 minutes long)
- Learning keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2007 (20 minutes long)
Review these four PowerPoint 2007 tutorials (total time: approximately 3 hours):
- Getting up to speed in PowerPoint 2007 (50 minutes long)
- Create your first PowerPoint 2007 presentation (50 minutes long)
- Create custom slide layouts in PowerPoint 2007 (40 minutes long)
- Personalize your slide design in PowerPoint 2007 (40 minutes long)
Select your applications below.
Word 2007. Examine these six tutorials to advance your knowledge in Word 2007 (total time: approximately four hours):- Word interactive guide (helps you locate moved commands)
- Headers and footers for document sections (50 minutes long)
- Reuse document parts: Introducing building blocks (50 minutes)
- Savings time with templates (50 minutes)
- Making documents look great (40 minutes long)
- Revise documents with track changes and comments (40 minutes long)
Excel 2007. Examine the following 4 tutorials to get a better feel for some of the advanced features of Excel 2007 (total time: approximately 2.5 hours):
- Entering formulas in Excel 2007 (50 minutes long)
- Pivot Table Reports (30 minutes long)
- Filter Pivot Table report data (30 minutes long)
- Create calculations on Pivot Table reports (30 minutes long)
PowerPoint 2007. Examine the following four tutorials to see some new features in PowerPoint and get up to speed on making better presentations (total time: approximately three hours):
- Personalize your slide design (40 minutes long)
- Create custom layouts (40 minutes long)
- Using SmartArt graphics (50 minutes long)
- Adding sound effects (50 minutes long)
Access 2007. Review these two Access tutorials.
- Getting up to speed with Access 2007 (30 minutes long)
- Help for Access 2007




