Word 2007 enables users to create professional-quality documents, such as letters, brochures, newsletters and web pages. In this class, you’ll learn the basics of using Word 2007, and then move on to customizing the Word environment.
You’ll also learn how to create and edit documents, work with graphics, use editing and proofing functions and more.
What you’ll learn
Learn the Word 2007 environment and become comfortable manipulating that environment to make workflow more efficient for individual style
Create documents and edit documents
Use formatting and page-layout functions
Use editing and proofing functions
Create graphics using SmartArt
Create basic tables and use Quick Tables
Lessons
Lesson 1: Getting comfortable with the Microsoft Word 2007 environment
Learn to navigate the Microsoft Word 2007 environment using the new Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar. You’ll also learn how to customize the program so that it fits in with your natural work habits.
Lesson 2: Microsoft Word tutorial: formatting your work
Discover how to work with text by formatting individual characters, blocks of text and even entire documents. As part of the process, you’ll also explore bulleted and numbered lists along with paragraph spacing.
Lesson 3: Microsoft Word tutorial: editing and correcting your work
Text is a vital part of any document. You’ll learn about basic editing and correction features in Word 2007. You’ll also get more tips for working with text, as well as learn how to preview and print your work.
Lesson 4: Microsoft Word tutorial: graphics and tables
Graphics can help strengthen your message. In this final lesson, you’ll discover how to use the SmartArt Gallery, work with clip art and photos and create tables both from scratch and using the Quick Tables feature.
Microsoft PowerPoint® 2007 is a full-featured program for creating professional-quality presentations. In this free Microsoft PowerPoint tutorial, you’ll learn how to customize the PowerPoint 2007 environment, use presentation views to maximize efficiency, apply color schemes and document themes and create a basic presentation with text and simple graphics.
What you’ll learn
Explore the PowerPoint 2007 environment
Understand the most important tools and features of PowerPoint 2007
Create documents and edit documents
Use different views to improve efficiency
Apply color schemes and document themes
Create a basic presentation using text and simple graphics
Lessons
Lesson 1: Get comfortable with the PowerPoint 2007 environment
Learn how to navigate the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 environment using the new Ribbon, Quick Access toolbar and Mini toolbar. In addition, you’ll find out how to customize the program to fit your natural work habits.
Lesson 2: Working with presentation views in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint offers a number of views to help you see different elements of a presentation document. This lesson teaches you how to work with PowerPoint views so you can navigate and review presentations quickly and easily.
Lesson 3: Using schemes and themes in PowerPoint 2007
Explore the attractive schemes and presentation themes that Microsoft PowerPoint offers. With themes, you can add a consistent look and feel to all aspects of your presentation, and make quick and easy changes.
Lesson 4: Create a basic presentation with PowerPoint 2007
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to work with text and simple graphics in a PowerPoint presentation. From creating text boxes and adding images, to using shapes and manipulating objects, you’ll learn the basics of creating stunning presentations.
I’ll admit it, I’m a huge 37signals blog fan and checkout their blog almost daily, right after I look at the Lolcats blog.
I’m looking at the picture above and reading the entry, then start reading the comments. I am not a web interface designer, so many times I see the articles in a different light than many of the other people who comment on the site. When I saw this today I was shocked! Had Amazon made a huge PR blunder? and then have it reposted on Signal vs. Noise….
Truthfully the reason I read the article was not related to design, I thought “I wanna go read all the flack those guys are going to get from their readers for posting about Bezos, since he’s an investor”. So imagine my surprise finding out all the comments were about the design.
So I thought, think like a designer Vicky, you can look at the packaging from a “frustration free packaging” point of view. So I’m looking at it and I’m going to myself who cares how easy it is to open or close, you can’t see the toy! Why would I buy a toy with that ugly brown wrap that you can’t even see that it’s a toy?
I bet someone at Amazon is having a WTF moment. Jeff, don’t fire the PR people, unless your going to hire me, I *heart* Amazon!
Did you know that Blog Action Day will be having a 12 hour Blog Talk Radio Talk-a-thon?
It’s happening on October 15th, 2008 (Blog Action Day) from 12:00pm (EST) to 12:00am (EST).
“Using Social Media For Nonprofits” Roundtable
One session that will be on the Blog Talk Radio Talkathon will be a “Using Social Media For Nonprofits” roundtable discussion.
The session will be live beginning at 5:00pm (EST) to 5:45pm (EST). We have some of the best bloggers, social media experts, and nonprofit experts included so it should be very interesting.
Nonprofit Technology Trainer, Consultant, and Evaluator
Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing, video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, and virtual worlds, etc) to support nonprofit. She has worked on projects that include: training, curriculum development, research, and evaluation.She is an experienced coach to “digital immigrants” in the personal mastery of these tools.
She is a professional blogger and writes about the use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector for social change.
Anyone who knows Liz personally knows what a giving person she is. Liz is constantly giving to others and views her friends and clients success as part of her success. Liz has two main mottos that envelop exactly who she is as a person and business woman, they are “be irresistable” and “you’re only a stranger once“.
Mark J. Carter
Over the last 7 years Carter has interviewed, worked with and/or been mentored by the best professional relationship builders.
Then Carter put everything into a duplicable, step by step system by taking the best of their strategies (and these people ranged from what you would call business “movers and shakers” to the “nice guys/girls”…the common thread: they all got (and get) results from their relationships).
In addition to networking Carter builds social media campaigns that not only create word of mouth marketing but also build relationships online and offline.
One of his current projects is serving as Director of Social Media for www.SavingTheWorld.net; an online community created by NY Times Bestselling Author Tim Sanders (just released his latest book, “Saving The World At Work“). The focus is creating change in your workplace and your community.
ONE80 Consulting :: Training
“Building Pivotal & Profitable Business Relationships”
Paul Chaney
Paul is the Internet Marketing Director for Bizzuka, a Web design and development company based in Lafayette, Louisiana. When he’s not serving Bizzuka, he also serves as President of the International Blogging and New Media Association (IBNMA), a non-profit trade association dedicated to advancing blogging, podcasting and social media as an industry.
Paul has been involved in online marketing for nearly a decade. As one of the first business blogging consultants he understands at a granular level how conversational media tools such as blogs can be used for marketing purposes and has worked with a number of clients assisting them in deploying such strategies.
Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry in terms of encouraging Realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy. Along with Blogging Systems CEO Richard Nacht, he co-authored Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition, which similarly impacted the industry and which was the first blogging book to target a specific industry vertical.
He is a feature writer for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of blogs and social media for marketing purposes. He has led numerous workshops and seminars on the topic, including the first ever such seminar in Asia in 2005. He also blogged professionally with Weblogs, Inc, as well as with Allbusiness.com.
Paul has served as Technical Editor on a number of the “For Dummies” series books related to blogs and Internet marketing, and was contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, published by Wiley..
Your life purpose was getting clean water for your children to drink that day.
Living with abundance meant having a plate of food and not just scraps.
Manifesting your dreams included having a roof over your head.
What if you had nothing, and had to scrape by every day, worried about necessities like food and water and housing? Most people in extreme poverty do not have the luxury to think about a life purpose - other than how to stay alive. That is their purpose. Food, Water, Shelter.
For every Life Purpose Course you purchase from us today we’ll donate $25.00 to Heifer.org and buy some goats, chicken and water systems to support others.
Excerpt
So you want to help? Then tighten your belt
You’re going to do things that’s going to be heartfelt
Look inside yourself, ask what you will do
If you struggling and your country won’t help you
What do you do? How about where you’ll go?
How’s a stranger going to help? Just let him know
that “I don’t want to hand out, just a hand up
So I can contribute to life’s everloving cup”
I have desire and I want to leave my mark
In this world before my lights goes dark
What can I be? What can I contribute?
I could be a doctor, who can distribute
the cure for many diseases, for every season
Excerpt After all, as Winston Churchill eloquently put it, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
What will you give today?
Tell you what… I’ll donate $25 to Save the Children for every pledge of $10 or more from each of you out there. Just drop me a note in the comments with your pledge, and go here to make your donation.
If there are companies out there that would like to make a more substantial donation, I’ll be more than happy to recognize you for it in a follow-up post. Send me email with the details. Thanks for your time and attention.
In closing, thank you to everyone who participated in Blog Action Day! Bloggers Rock!
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day.
Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer.
Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
One Issue, Thousands of Voices
…the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.
By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue. Out of this discussion will naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment.
Mass Participation
From the smallest online journals, to huge online magazines, to EU ministers, to professionals and amateurs, Blog Action Day is about mass participation!
You may have noticed that there are some banner ads lately on Remarkable Parents. The banners here are hand chosen by us and are friends whose web sites and mission we fully believe in. These resources are real and not a get rich quick scheme. Introducing Michelle Vandepas of “Divine Purpose Unleashed”!
Divine Purpose Unleashed
by Michelle Vandepas
Do You Have a Divine Life Purpose?
Or maybe you’ve considered that your purpose is raising your children? You love your family but wonder, is there more to life than diapers, meal planning and dirty bathtubs? We all know that having a family is part of your Divine experience here on earth, but is there more…….?
Do Others Think Your Life Is Perfect?
Most of my friends always thought my life was perfect. I have a wonderful family, nice home and great job, but before I was tapped into my purpose I always felt something was missing. Late at night I’d ask myself the big questions. What was I really here to do? Was this all there was to life?
Shouldn’t I Be Happy?
Why wasn’t I happy? I had everything except the most important thing. I didn’t feel fulfilled. My job was fantastic. Nevertheless, it wasn’t enough. I couldn’t reconcile the present reality, with where I wanted to be. Inside myself was always a yearning, a longing to be ‘doing’ something else.
Forget Trying to Figure it Out!
For years I tried to analyze my purpose. I knew what I didn’t want to do, and I knew a few things I loved, but I couldn’t quite get a handle on what it all meant in the bigger picture. I had some leadership skills, but did that mean I was supposed to be a manager? I’m creative, was I supposed to be an artist? And that’s the trouble. We try to figure it out in our minds. And in the process we confuse our ‘roles’ like, ‘employee’, or’ mother,’ or ‘artist,’ with our purpose. Our purpose may be to be creative, or to lead, and once we tap into those energies that give our lives meaning and purpose, then we can bring them onto all areas of our life, including into our ‘roles’. More… »
