Techedutainment Services Written and Presented by: Greg Creech Prepared for UGA and IAAP Welcome to your new Office! How to Win in Office 2010 Page 2 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................2 Oops! and Legal Stuff .............................................................................................................4 Introducing Greg Creech.........................................................................................................5 The New Interface..................................................................................................................6 Quick! Access the Toolbar ..................................................................................................8 The Quick Access Toolbar in Word ......................................................................................... 8 The Quick Access Toolbar in Excel ........................................................................................ 13 Productive Ribbon, but Where are the Bows? ...................................................................... 15 Customizing the Ribbon – Your Own Tab and Groups ........................................................ 18 Adding more buttons in Word. ............................................................................................. 21 Custom Tab and Groups in Excel .......................................................................................... 22 The Return of File! ............................................................................................................... 24 Common Commands and Recent List ................................................................................ 25 Recent (and Important) Pane ........................................................................................... 26 Print! One Stop Shopping ................................................................................................. 28 (At Last) ........................................................................................................................... 28 Save & Send ..................................................................................................................... 30 New (And Improved) ........................................................................................................ 31 Options for your New Office ................................................................................................. 32 General Options .................................................................................................................... 32 The Proof is in the Proofing Tab ........................................................................................... 33 Save Options - Save Early and Save Often ............................................................................ 34 The Easy to Use Advanced Options ...................................................................................... 35 Welcome Home – The Home Tab .......................................................................................... 36 The New Age of Formatting .............................................................................................. 36 Word Text Effects ................................................................................................................ 41 Bullets ............................................................................................................................. 42 Excel’s Formats .................................................................................................................... 44 Keyboard Shortcuts and Key Tips .......................................................................................... 47 At Home with Cut, Copy, and Paste...................................................................................... 52 Insert Tab ............................................................................................................................ 55 Word’s Insert Tab ............................................................................................................ 55 Excel’s Insert Tab ............................................................................................................. 55 Thanks for Learning! 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How to Win in Office 2010 Page 3 PowerPoint’s Insert Tab ................................................................................................... 56 Screenshot Editing and Clipping........................................................................................ 56 You Oughta be in Pictures! ............................................................................................... 59 Themes............................................................................................................................ 65 Print Preview and Print: A New World in Office 2010 ............................................................ 67 Word’s Print Preview and Print ........................................................................................ 69 Excel’s Print Preview and Print ......................................................................................... 71 PowerPoint’s Print Preview and Print ............................................................................... 72 The New Power of PowerPoint ............................................................................................. 74 Creating a Presentation in 2010 ........................................................................................ 74 Artistic Effects on Photos ...................................................................................................... 76 Design Tab ............................................................................................................................ 76 Transition Tab .................................................................................................................. 77 Animation Tab - Improved................................................................................................ 77 Animation Painter............................................................................................................ 78 Video Tools – Format and Playback Tabs in PowerPoint ........................................................ 79 That’s how you Win in 2010! ................................................................................................ 81 Index ................................................................................................................................... 82 Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 4 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Oops! and Legal Stuff While I have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this document, including grammar and instructions, I make mistakes. (Surprise!) If you find an error or want to provide constructive feedback, please contact me. Thank you! Enjoy Your new Office and this document. Greg Creech Techedutainment Services, Inc. P. O. Box 1431 Pine Lake, GA 30072 www.gregcreech.com Former National Speakers Association Member American Society of Training and Development Member Society for Human Resources Management International Association of Administrative Professionals Georgia Municipal Association Word ® is a most excellent product from Microsoft ® Corporation and is part of the Office ® Suite (including Office 2007/2010 ® of products and services, including Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other fantastic programs that help me to be productive and profitable. Copyright © 2011 Greg Creech, Techedutainment Services, Inc.. All rights reserved. This publication, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, storage in an information retrieval system, or otherwise, without express written permission of Greg Creech, P. O. Box 1431, Pine Lake, GA 30072-1431, www.gregcreech.com. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 5 Introducing Greg Creech Shop Talk from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, Oct. 29, 2000 R3 - JOBS Why I Love my Job – Greg Creech What I Do: I teach technology courses and make presentations to beginner and expert computer users and professionals. I use humor and the piano. I train all levels from first-time Technology computer users to systems technicians acquiring speaker and A+ certification. As an A+ certified trainer, trainer MOUS expert, and technical trainer, my Speakin' & certifications and knowledge give me a career in the technology. My humor, the piano, and Geekin' people keep me in the technology training field. I Pine Lake sing to my students sometimes and perform stand-up comedy about computers. How I got started: I won Best Actor in a Supporting Role at Southside Theatre Guild for “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and studied comedy under Jerry Farber. I have played the piano since 8 years of age and had the first personal computer with a 1 MB of memory. In order to learn the PC, I associated the PC with the piano -- both use a language to translate, both have keyboards, and now - both provide music and information. I must admit I miss the days when I only played the piano and programmed the PC. Now, I play the PC and have to program my piano. In 1998 after seventeen years of technology business experience in the corporate Greg Creech sings to his market, I decided to take a leap of faith on my own. I call my presentations students, and “Showminars,” a combination of a show and a seminar. often he The Best Part: Hearing the laughter and the comments: “You have saved performs standme so much time,” and “I remember complicated macros because of the way up comedy you taught them.” I have a passion for teaching creative people to be more about technical and technical people to be more creative – Mozart would be proud! computers. The Challenging Part: Explaining why I want my piano in a PC classroom. “Mainframers” who refuse to acknowledge the existence of the PC and the Web. People who attend training classes because they have to, not because they want to. Technical people who are not client- focused. My Favorite Quotes: “To err is human, to really mess things up you need a computer.” “Forty-two percent of all households have a computer; only eight percent of those know how to use it.” What Keeps me Going: I enjoy combining my love of people, the piano, processors, and humor into a unique speaking and learning experience. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 6 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services The New Interface One of the best new features of Office 2007/2010 is the new user interface including the Quick Access Toolbar, Tabs, and Ribbon. Microsoft calls this type of interface a results-oriented interface and I must agree – you truly will get to your desired results, effects, and functionality with less time and minimized frustrations – for the most part. The number of dialogue boxes has decreased and Task Panes are still around to assist you. The good old toolbars, such as Standard and Formatting, that us old-timers have used since the early 1990’s are gone, except for one – the new Quick Access toolbar. Without a doubt using the new Office Suite will increase your productivity and make getting to functions much easier and with fewer clicks and less frustration. The Home Tab in Word 2010 displays here with the Quick Access Toolbar below the Ribbon and Tabs Command Buttons Groups above the Ruler and the Home Tab’s Groups and Command Buttons displayed. Besides the increase functionality using the tabs and ribbon, there is new power in using the shortcut menus with “right clicking” or using the secondary mouse button. When you “right click” or use your secondary mouse button you still receive the Shortcut menu including some of your favorite commands, such as copy and paste. Also you receive a Mini Toolbar containing favorite commands to use such as font, bold, the format painter and other often used commands. This is another time saving feature for applying formatting to selected areas of your document, spreadsheet, presentation and other Office files. There is the new scrolling Zoom, replacing the Zoom box, in the status bar of all applications that changes your view as you scroll through your percentages. A Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 7 picture of the new scrolling zoom is at right and allows you to see your changes in “real time” rather than guessing the percentage you need. Office 2007/2010 offers a preview of your formatting, too, such as when you select your text and scroll through the fonts or font size the application will show you the effect changes before you make your final click or selection. This feature is called Live Preview and saves a lot of time. We will examine these new user interface features and new ways to getting to old functionality, such as how the tabs and ribbons work in using popular formatting options for your documents, spreadsheets, and emails. We will look at common features across the new Office 2007/2010, such as the return of File in Office 2010, Customizing the Ribbon, and the Quick Access toolbar. Then we will examine some of the new functionality in Word, Excel, and Outlook using the new interface. Welcome to your new office, now let’s get familiar with our new surroundings, and interface. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 8 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services The Quick Access Toolbar in Word For years and years we have used many toolbars in the Office Suite, gone are all of the toolbars, they are replaced with the tabs and pop-up dialogues boxes and task panes. We still have one toolbar available for us to put our favorite commands. The Quick Access Toolbar appears at the top your screen and pictured here. This has the Save, the (Very Popular) Undo, and Repeat command buttons on it. You can customize the Quick Access Toolbar easily. We’ll add some of my often used icons and actions to the toolbar – I encourage you to play around and add your own favorite icons. Here’s how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar using Customize Quick Access Toolbar: 1. Click on the Drop Down arrow at the end of the toolbar and in the cascading menu choose some of your often used items, such as Quick Print and Print Preview. Clicking these items adds them to your Quick Access Toolbar. 2. Unfortunately, you must keep opening the menu to add the buttons; the cascading menu doesn’t remain open as you click all of your buttons. I have added all of my buttons to the Quick Access toolbar. Now, we will use the More Commands item in the Quick Access Toolbar. You want to use the More Commands and Customize panes for two reasons: You can add more than one button at a time and you may add buttons not in the ribbon, You can re-order the buttons to suit your needs. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 9 1. To add other favorite command buttons click the More Commands … item on the Customize Quick Access Toolbar menu. 2. The Word Options Quick Access Toolbar Customize screen appears pictured at right. 3. First, I reorder my commands buttons to match how I had them for over 19 years using the Standard toolbar, so I move New to first place, Save and Save As are next, followed by Open, and then Undo, my favorite button. You will want to move your buttons to suit your needs and productivity in locating a popular command quickly and easily no matter what tab you may use in the Ribbon. 4. If you want to move the button, select it and click the up or down arrows at the right of the buttons for your toolbar. This will move your selected command up or down on your toolbar. 5. Next Select Copy from the Popular Commands pane and add it to your Quick Access Toolbar – Notice that wherever your cursor or selector was located in the Customize Quick Access Toolbar pane Office adds the button beneath your cursor/selection. 6. You may add your favorite buttons by double clicking the item, such as Font or Font Color, or selecting an item and clicking the Add button. Your buttons add below where your cursor/selection is in the Customize Quick Access Toolbar pane. 7. Notice at the top of the screen that we are making these changes to all of our documents (For all documents (default)). You can create and modify your Quick Access Toolbar for different documents and needs. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 10 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Now, let’s use All Commands and add some of my favorite buttons. 1. Change Choose command from box using the drop down list to All Commands. 2. Wow! There are a lot of commands in the Office Suite. We won’t add all of these. 3. With an item selected in your All Commands pane, press the letter R on your keyboard – the Pane jumps to the letter R in the command list. Next you may use the scrolling bar or keyboard arrows to move through your commands. We want to add Reveal Formatting to our Quick Access Toolbar. Reveal Formatting isn’t in the Ribbon and is a cool button to use in order to know all about your formatting and to compare different areas of the document’s formatting differences. 4. I add my favorite things in Word using the All Commands pane, such as: Grow Font by 1 Pt, Shrink Font by 1 Pt, Change Case, Change Shape, 100% Zoom, Open Recent File… 5. Continue to add some of your favorite commands to the toolbar. 6. Don’t forget to reorder them using the arrow buttons. 7. Once complete, click the OK button at the bottom of your screen. Also, I like having my Quick Access Toolbar below the ribbon. You may place the Quick Access Toolbar below Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 11 or above the Ribbon using the shortcut menu for the Customize Quick Access Toolbar that we have used previously. At the bottom of the pane, you may choose to Show Above/Below the Ribbon. I am changing mine to Show Below the Ribbon as displayed here. A Hot Tip! Adding buttons from a terrific shortcut menu! We can add any button on the Ribbon to our Quick Access Toolbar by rightclicking the button; in this case, I have my Show All button selected and right click on it to receive the shortcut menu that displays Add to Quick Access Toolbar. Note – If the Add to Quick Access Toolbar is grayed out – then you already added the button! Let’s try it out. 1. With the Home Tab’s buttons visible Right-click on one of your favorite icons – I’ll right click the Show/Hide button. 2. From the menu choose Add to Quick Access Toolbar. 3. The icon displays on your toolbar at the end. 4. You can add and remove buttons with ease to and from your Quick Access Toolbar, using the shortcut menu. But you cannot rearrange them unless you use the Customize Quick Access Toolbar pane in the Options menu. 5. The shortcut menu on the Ribbon and Quick Access Buttons provide other options, too, such as Customizing and Minimizing the Ribbon that we will learn next. As you use your new Office, you’ll discover buttons that you will want available all of the time. Unlike the previous versions of Office your Home, Insert, Page Layout and other tabs change your command buttons; therefore, to have a popular command constantly available without clicking a tab or right clicking, you’ll have to add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. You may assign your command to a keyboard shortcut or use one already defined for you such as the ever popular CTRL + C for copy. If you mess up your toolbar and want to put it back to the way the toolbar came from the Microsoft Factory or its original sate, in the Customization screen you can Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 12 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services click the Reset button and Office provides this message. If you click the Yes button, all of your customization disappears for you to start fresh adding your icons. Now, let’s accomplish the following: In Excel, add some of your favorite buttons to your Quick Access Toolbar and rearrange the buttons for your needs. . Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 13 The Quick Access Toolbar in Excel 1. With Excel open at a blank workbook, Click the Quick Access Toolbar’s Option arrow and add the buttons from the shortcut menu as displayed here. 2. After adding the buttons from the shortcut menu, Click the arrow again and at the Customize Quick Access Toolbar click the More Commands… option. As we accomplished in Word, add your favorite Excel buttons using the Popular Commands item in the Choose commands from: box. Here are some of my favorite commands to add to and rearrange on my Quick Access Toolbar using the Popular commands item: Custom Sort Insert Sheet Rows Insert Sheet Columns Set Print Area Freeze Panes Page Setup Paste Special Insert PivotTable Add your popular commands and rearrange them on the Quick Access toolbar by selecting a command and using the Up and Down arrows to move your buttons. 3. Next change your Choose commands from box to All Commands as circled above. Press the letter A and scroll to AutoFilter. Add AutoFilter to your Quick Access Toolbar this command button doesn’t appear on the Ribbon and is very Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 14 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services helpful. This one button accomplished two tasks – first it will filter for whatever you have selected and it will turn on your filtering for you. I also add the Clear Filter button. Notice ALL of the Commands in Excel and add your buttons as you wish. Click OK. 4. Next, decide if you want to show the Quick Access Toolbar above or below the Ribbon. Now, you are ready to work with productivity in Excel 2010. Let’s customize our Outlook’s Quick Access Toolbar, now. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 15 Prod u ct i ve R ib b o n , b ut Where are the Bows? The Home Tab appears above. The Ribbon is composed of Tabs, Command Buttons (aka Icons), and Groups. As you can see, the Ribbon is packed with Command buttons, Tabs Command Buttons Groups menu items, and are organized in a logical manner. However, getting accustomed to where your previous icons, menu items, and other shortcuts from previous versions of Office is a bit challenging. Here’s an example of how my old habits in the applications are hard to change, and I bet you will experience the same. The Views in Word and PowerPoint have always been at the lower left corner of your screen – now the Views in Word and PowerPoint have moved to the left of the screen – a simple rearrangement, but I can’t count the number of times I still go to the lower right part of my screen to change a view and then realize OOPS! the views have moved on me. An Important Note - Your screen resolutions will affect the number of commands you may see in a group. The lower the resolution your computer is set the fewer commands you may see – the group will display an arrow for you to expand and view the commands. The higher the resolution the more commands you may view in a group without the need to expand the group. For example, with my screen resolution set at 800 x 600 my Editing Group required me to expand the group in order to view and use the commands. With my screen resolution set at 1024 X 768 my editing group displays the Find, Replace, and Select Commands. You may change your resolution settings using the Display Properties and the Settings Tab in Windows XP. Microsoft’s Office 2007/2010 Ribbon is productive, beautiful, and combines our previous toolbars, menus, and task pane features in a much easier and a more powerful way of working with the applications. As a 25-year veteran of using these products, I got excited when we moved from command menus to icons, now we can have the best of all Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 16 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services of the worlds with The Ribbon, especially the ability to customize the Ribbon in Office 2010 as we accomplished earlier. I think you are going to find the Ribbon a bit confusing at first. For me, old habits die hard and I had to accustom my life and work without the Menu bar and Standard/Formatting Toolbar. And the Live Preview Feature introduced in Office 2007 that displays your selected text’s new format based on hovering your cursor over a style, font, or size “freaked” me out at first. However, once I worked with the new Ribbon and features that pop out of nowhere or are enhanced greatly, such as the new Mini Toolbar that appears with your Shortcut Menu when you right-click, I find it difficult to use previous versions of Office. The 2007/2010 version of Office is much easier to use and to teach than any other version, especially for our youth and those new to Microsoft’s Office. Here’s two neat ways of increasing your productivity using the Ribbon. Two important and time saving Hot Tips for you in using the Ribbon and Tabs! Hot Tip 1: Minimize the Ribbon! Four ways to minimize the Ribbon – First, the Ribbon takes up a lot of space on your screen. You may minimize the Ribbon and use it only when you click on a Tab. 1. Office 2010 has the new Minimize Ribbon arrow at the top of your window next to the Help button. The Minimize the Ribbon button appears at right. With the Ribbon minimized the button becomes the Expand the Ribbon button. 2. To minimize the ribbon double click the active Tab’s Name. Double clicking a tab expands/minimizes the ribbon, too. 3. Right click on any tab or command button on the Ribbon and from the short cut menu choose Minimize the Ribbon at the bottom of the menu. 4. Keyboard shortcut of CTRL + F1 – when you press your CTRL (Control) and the F1 keys simultaneously on your keyboard the Office application minimizes and expands your Ribbon, too. Why minimize The Ribbon? The Ribbon takes a lot of space. With the Ribbon minimized you have more room in which to work on your file. With the Ribbon minimized, to use a tab, you Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 17 click the tab and the Ribbon’s tab expands for you to use the Command Buttons. After clicking the button you want and you click back into the body of your document, worksheet, or presentation the Ribbon minimizes again. This is similar to using the old Menu bar. The difference is the Menu bar was vertical and text oriented and the Ribbon is horizontal and more graphically oriented. Hot Tip 2: Second, if you have a scroll wheel/button on your mouse and the Ribbon is NOT minimized, you may scroll through the different tabs rather than clicking the tab. Moving your cursor to the Ribbon and rolling your scrolling button/wheel up or down changes the tabs for you! You must first click on a tab for this to work; otherwise, the application will scroll through your file – not the Ribbon. An Important Gotcha! With the Ribbon minimized you cannot scroll through the Tabs as described above. You’ll have to maximize the ribbon in order to scroll through your tabs and command items. Try these two shortcuts, I think you’ll like using these two features in Office 2010. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 18 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services One of the disadvantages of Office 2007was the inability to customize the ribbon and add your favorite and popular command buttons to your own tab as you could create toolbars and add your icons in Office 2003 and its predecessors. With Office 2010 you can create your own tab and groups then add your favorite command buttons. We’ll build our own tab with often used command buttons, now. We’ll start in Word and then accomplish tabs in Excel and Outlook. 1. In Word 2010, Right Click on a tab or anywhere in your ribbon and from the short cut menu chose Customize the Ribbon (You may click the File Tab and go to Options for Customize the Ribbon, too). 2. Notice at the Top Right Pane you may choose difference Tabs to view, such as Main Tabs, All Tabs, Tool Tabs – we’ll work with the Main Tabs. The main tabs are checked and listed below the Customize the Ribbon box – I have checked Developer in order to perform Macros and Create Word Forms. 3. Click the New Tab button, Word creates a New Tab and New Group for you. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 19 4. Next, select your New Tab and click the Rename button at the bottom of the pane. The Rename box appears for you to enter the name of your Tab – I am naming my tab “Greg’s Tab”. After changing the name, click OK. 5. Next select your New/Custom Group and click the Rename button at the bottom of the pane. The Rename pane displays change the Display name to Format as displayed at right. Click OK after changing your name. 6. You can rename and change the picture/icon of many of your command buttons, too. Next we add buttons from the Popular Commands pane to our tab. As displayed at right, I am clicking and dragging my Format Painter from the Popular Commands pane and placing it under my Format (Custom) Group. You may add buttons several ways: Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 20 1. How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services With the command button you wish highlighted or selected click the Add button and the selected button adds underneath your selection in the right pane, 2. Click and drag the command button from the left part of your pane to the right part of your pane and the Group. Hot Tip! Shortcut menu and moving the Tabs. You may right click on a Tab or Command Button in the Customize Ribbon Pane and from the shortcut menu perform many of the same options to avoid clicking buttons at the bottom or right of the pane. Also, you may rearrange your Tabs by selecting the Tab and clicking and dragging the tab to its new location, you may use your shortcut menu as display at right or using the arrow buttons to move the selected Tab, Group or button up and down. I have put my Tab (Greg’s Tab) first so that when I open an application this is the first tab that is available for me – you may want to keep your Home tab as the opening Tab. If you right click on a Tab you may show or hide that Tab using the Show Tab item and checking/unchecking it. You may remove a tab from this shortcut men, too. An Important Gotcha! You can’t modify the buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar as you can using the Ribbon and your Tabs for your Command Buttons. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 21 Adding more buttons in Word. My custom tab, Greg’s Tab, appears below with my Groups and Command buttons. This is a good example of how you will want to create your own tab and add your favorite buttons. With the Quick Access Toolbar and Your Own tab in the Ribbon using the Office Suite has never been easier and more productive. 1. Activate your Customize Ribbon pane in your Word Options by right clicking on a Tab on the Ribbon and Clicking Customize the Ribbon from the shortcut menu. 2. Change your Choose commands rom box to All Commands. Word alphabetically shows ALL of the available commands. I am adding the Reveal Formatting button to my Format Group on my Tab by clicking and dragging the button from the left part of my screen to the right part of the pane illustrating my Tab and Groups. 3. Similar to the Quick Access Toolbar I add my AutoCorrect Options, Grow Font by 1 pt and Shrink Font by 1 pt as well as other favorite formatting and page setup commands. You should add the buttons and groups as you use Word and have your favorite commands in one place. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 22 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Modifying Buttons. We changed the Name of a Group and Tab, but you may also change the picture of a button. You may change the Name of your button and the picture the command represents. When I added the Print Preview Button and the Print and Print Preview Button (two different commands but the same picture), I couldn’t determine a difference without the Screen Tip. So, using my Customize Ribbon Pane I selected the Print and Print Preview button and clicked the Rename button (circled at right). Using the Rename pane displayed here I chose the Smiley Face for my picture or symbol and I changed the Display name: to All in One Printing. Clicking OK changed my command buttons Name and Symbol in my pane and on my Tab. Select some of your buttons and change their name and symbol by using the Customize the Ribbon Pane. Custom Tab and Groups in Excel The process of creating and customizing your tab and groups in Excel is the same as in Word. We will create a tab and a group and add some of our favorite Excel buttons to it. 1. Activate your Customize Ribbon pane in your Excel Options by right clicking on a Tab on the Ribbon and Clicking Customize the Ribbon from the shortcut menu as displayed here with my Custom Tab named Greg’s Tab. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 23 2. Create a New Tab by Clicking the New Tab button at the bottom of the Customize the Ribbon pane and then rename the tab – I am naming my tab - Greg’s Tab. 3. Next create a New Group and rename the group. I am creating another group displayed here named Format. I created a Data Group earlier. 4. Create and rename other groups if you wish. 5. Change your Choose commands rom box to All Commands. Excel alphabetically shows ALL of the available commands. I am adding the Conditional Formatting button to my Format Group on my Tab by clicking and dragging the button from the left part of my screen to the right part of the pane illustrating my Tab and Groups. 6. Similar to the Quick Access Toolbar I add my AutoFilter, Clear Filter, Sort, Custom Sort, and other important and often used Excel Commands. You should add the buttons and groups as you use Excel and have your favorite commands in one place. 7. After customizing your tab, groups, and command buttons, Click OK. You have your own, productive Tab in Excel. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 24 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services The Return of File! There were many improvements in Microsoft’s Office with the release of Office 2007; however, using the Microsoft Office Button, pictured at right, instead of good, ol’ File was not one of the improvements and therefore disappears (YEAH!) with Office 2010. A File Tab returns bigger and better than ever. 1. With a Word Document open, Click the File tab and click the Info item. 2. My Information pane appears here with the ability to set permissions, share, and to use important document properties. Notice that the left part of the pane contains our favorite commands of Save, Save As, Open, Close, and the Recently opened documents appear. Here are some of the items we will learn in using the expanded, more powerful, and simpler File tab. Common Commands and Simple Recent list, Recent – Pinning and unpinning, Print – One Stop Shopping, Save & Send – Saving in popular (PDF) and email at one place, Options – Setting Important Options throughout the Suite. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 25 When you click the File Tab, Word should open at the Info Pane. The Info, Recent, New, Print, and other items all contain the Save, Save As, Open, and Close items as well as Your Recent documents list section. My Info Pane and File tab appear here. This pane is organized in three sections: Your Common Tasks and Commands in the right section, Important features and commands in the center, and then Properties to the left. The Common Tasks and Features are consistent in the Suite, except for Outlook which we will look at Outlook’s File Tab later. You may set the number of documents in the Recent Pane at the bottom. 1. Click the Recent item on your File Tab and at the bottom of the pane change the number of items (I am changing mine to 10) in the Quickly access this number of Recent Documents. The limit is 50. I use my Recent pane and pinned documents (we will learn this next) for items where I need a listing of more than 10. 2. Notice and use your Save, Save As, Open, and Close as you use the products and chance the number of Recent Documents. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 26 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services The Recent Pane displays your pinned and unpinned documents as well as the Recent Places area. This saves much time in locating files and working with documents consistently and regularly. By Default your list sorts alphabetically and the pinned documents area grows with the number of documents you want pinned. You can change the default of 17 recent documents up to 50 in your Advanced Word Option settings, which we will accomplish in a future section. Also, you may change your Recent documents number that appears in your common tasks (left area) of your screen below the Close command – not documents that appear in the Recent Documents/Workbooks panes as displayed above and below. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 27 A Hot Tip! Pinning document, workbooks, presentations, etc. Across the Office Suite, except Outlook, helps you quickly open your favorite and often-used files. You pin your favorite files by clicking the push pin button at the right of the document or the recent place. This pins the file at the top of the pane. You may unpin and remove from the list by right clicking on the file and the shortcut menu as displayed below appears for you to perform popular options, including Opening, Pinning/Unpinning, and Removing from List. You should pin your Recent Files and Recent Places as you begin opening and using your files in Office 2010. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 28 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Finally, one pane that contains your favorite Print AND Page set-up AND Print Preview in one place. We have had to bounce between Page Set-up, Print Preview, and Print for years to set our settings and customize our print jobs for our Office files. Now, Your File Tab’s Print pane allows you to select your printer, collate, change the orientation, margins, and use Print Preview with a Zoom slider and easy navigation through your document, worksheet, and so on. You may access this pane through the popular keyboard shortcut of CTRL + P. In using Office 2010, I have found this new Printing Pane very helpful and more productive than before. Also, Print Preview is still around and you may use the “traditional” Print Preview but this offers much of the same functionality; however, like Page Set-up you may need to use Print Preview for other items not featured in this Print pane. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 29 In Excel, you may set your scaling, margins, worksheet printing in one convenient location now using the File Tab. My Excel Printing and some of my important Page Setup Options appear at right. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 30 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services With a Word document or Excel workbook open, click the File Tab and trace to the Save & Send item and the menu below displays (I’m using Word, but the options are similar across the Office Suite.). This is a very helpful tab to quickly Save the Office document in a PDF format and email at one step You can publish your Office file to the web, SharePoint, blogs and other services. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 31 New (And Improved) With a blank Word document or blank Excel workbook open, click the File Tab and trace to the New item and the menu below displays (I’m using Word, but the Blank options, location of templates and creating templates/file are similar across the Office Suite.). You may save all of your documents, workbooks, and other Office files as templates to use repeatedly to create separate files and not affect the templates’ contents. The file extension for a template in Word is .dotx and Excel Templates are .xltx. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 32 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services O p t i o n s f o r yo u r N e w O f f i c e The File Tab contains the important Options that you should set for each of your Applications as you begin using Office 2010 and make changes as you need later. The Options item is located at the bottom of your File Tab’s menu below Help and above Exit as displayed here. This is consistent throughout the Microsoft’s Office Suite of applications. General Options 1. With Word Open and at a blank document, Click the File Tab, 2. Next, click the Word Options button. 3. The Word Options screen appears at the General selection. I have included the Excel General screen displayed below, too. 4. You should set your Name, Initials, and Screen Tips options if needed, here. 5. You may disable or enable the Mini Toolbar on selection; you may always retrieve the Mini Toolbar by right-clicking in the workspace of an application. I don’t know why in the world you would ever want to disable live Preview which shows you your formatting changes without actually making the changes until you click an item. 6. In Excel you have the ability to set the number of worksheets in a new workbook and to change your font size and other options for you to set according to your needs and use of the application. I have set my font, Font size (which being over 50 years of age Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 33 goes up every year, now!), Default view, and I include at least 5 worksheets in a new workbook. We will examine the Mini Toolbar on selection and Enable Live Preview. Please keep these options checked until you decide whether you like them or they annoy you in using the applications. Now, we will look at the other screens in your Options, so if you are in Word – Click the Proofing button. The Proof is in the Proofing Tab Another important tab for you to review is the Proofing tab. This contains important selfcorrecting features of the applications. This contains the AutoCorrect Options. . . button in the new Office. Word has more options in the Proofing screen than Excel or PowerPoint and in Word you should check the Show readability statistics. The Show Readability statistics displays a dialogue box to containing important information about your document such as what grade level you are composing, the number of passive sentences and other neat information about your document. The dialogue box will appear after you check your Spelling and Grammar by using the F7 key or the command button in the Review Tab. You should set how you want Word to check your spelling and/or your Grammar and Styles. The Settings button and associated menu pane allows you to set what and how you want Word to check your spelling and grammar, such as using Contractions, Passive Sentences, Wordiness and so on. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 34 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Save Options - Save Early and Save Often The Save options are consistent across the applications and allow you to change the type of file you are storing and where your default locations of your files are. The Word 2010 Save Options screen appears at right; the Save Options screens are very similar across the applications. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 35 The Easy to Use Advanced Options The Advanced Options screens are essential to review in each of the applications and contain time saving customizations for you and how you like to use the applications. Please don’t think of Advanced as difficult; I think this should be renamed to Important Options. There are options for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Printing, and many more. Here are some of the options I like to change or to check in using Word: Inserting Pictures as a Tight Format and decide my defaults for copy and paste, Changing my Recently Used Document list to 50 in the Display section, Entering my Mailing Address at the end of the pane for Word to use as my return address for envelopes, labels, letters, etc. After setting your Important Options click OK. Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint have no shortage of Options in the Advanced areas and you should review those applications for how you want your Office application to work for you. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 36 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services We l c o m e H o m e – T h e H o m e Ta b The Home Tab contains many of the items previously on the Standard and Formatting Toolbars in previous Office versions. The Home Tab Groups allow getting to some of the options that required a Dialogue box easier and with one click. Pictured at right is the Font and Paragraph Formatting Groups for Word; we will examine the Styles and Formatting aspects of Word later. The Font Group contains the familiar Font, Font size, Bold, Italic and new items for the Groups such as Strikethrough, Subscript, and Superscript. The lower row of Command buttons contains the Highlighter, Font Color, the Change Case, and the Increase and Decrease font buttons. Our good old Cut, Copy and Paste commands are in the first group – the Clipboard group. Find and Replace are at the end of the Home Tab. The Clipboard, Font, and Editing groups are consistent throughout most of the applications. Let’s use some of these groups on the Home tab to acquaint ourselves to new ways of formatting in Word, Excel, and Outlook’s Format Text Tab. Aside from the Font Tab for our character formatting, Word, Outlook, Publisher, and PowerPoint has the Paragraph Group which contains the Bullet, Numbering and Outline Command buttons; however, now these icons contain a drop down menu that quickly lets you choose another bullet or number and can activate the Define New Bullet Dialogue box for customization of your Bullets. These previously required several clicks to activate the ability to customize a bullet. Other familiar paragraph formats are here, too. Such as the Increase/Decrease indents, Left, Center, Right, and Justification alignment buttons. The new version provides the Line Spacing command button for you, too. The Show All button is on the upper row last button which quickly displays your spaces, paragraphs, tabs, page breaks, and other formatting items. Let’s use some of these items and other components of formatting in Word. We’ll look at some of Excel’s new Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 37 formatting options, too. PowerPoint formats are consistent with Word and many of PowerPoint’s formats are dependent upon the design template you use. We will look at the new Format Text Tab in Outlook, too. 1. Open the Word document Word Manual. 2. Maneuver to the second page and triple click in the first paragraph or click and drag to select the paragraph. 3. Go to the Font box and click the Drop down arrow to see a menu of fonts. 4. Notice has you scroll through your fonts Word provides a Live Preview of the font on your paragraph. This preview is in all of the applications and takes a little getting accustomed to; the application does not change your font until you click the font you like. This neat feature allows you to view your changes prior to clicking the font you desire. This works on other items, too, such as font size. Hot Tip! You may disable this feature under your Options menu from the File Menu as we previously discussed in this manual. This is in the General Menu in your Options. 5. Click the font of your choice for this paragraph. 6. With the paragraph still selected click the font size drop down arrow and view your paragraph as you scroll through your sizes. 7. Next, Click the drop down arrow for your font color. Office 2007/2010 provides many new colors and Themes from the cascading menu. With Live Preview enabled you may see the color changes to your selection, just as we saw with the font style and size. If you position your cursor over a color, a screen tip will display the color characteristics. The More Colors. . . activates your Custom and Standard schemes. 8. Click a new color for your paragraph to select and apply the color. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 38 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services When we reviewed the Options and the General tab, an item entitled Show Mini Toolbar on selection appeared. A Mini Toolbar appears mysteriously when you have a word, paragraph, or other items selected. When you have something selected and move your cursor upward, you’ll see a Toolbar begin appearing that grows darker as you move closer to it. The Mini Toolbar is also part of your shortcut menu when you right click on a selection and is pictured at right. The Mini Toolbar provides some of the most popular commands from the Home Tab and Formatting Icons. Since your command buttons change with your Tabs this is more helpful than other versions of Office because your command buttons/icons will not always be at the top of your screen, unless you add them to your Quick Access Toolbar. For example, if you are in the Insert and Page Layout Tab and need to use the Format Painter, you would have to click the Home Tab and use the Format Painter from there. With the Mini Toolbar visible you may use Format Painter and other options without moving to the Home Tab. Let’s use the Mini Toolbar and some of the icons. 1. With your Word Manual document open, select a paragraph by triple clinking in the paragraph. 2. Right Click on the Paragraph the Shortcut Menu and Mini Toolbar appear as pictured at right. 3. Using the Mini Toolbar change your font, your font size, and your font color. 4. The shortcut menus in the 2010 Office Applications have expanded as well and provide more power and ease. For example, the Bullets and Numbering commands give a cascading menu for you to choose a new bullet or numbering scheme quickly from here without having to open a dialogue box as we previously accomplished in other versions. 5. After making your changes using the Mini Toolbar, click away from your paragraph to view your changes. Notice the Shortcut menu contains some favorite commands such as Synonyms and Styles. New to Office 2010 are the Paste Options which we will study and use later. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 39 While Dialogue boxes have decreased in number, some of them are still around, such as Font and Paragraph in Word and PowerPoint and Format Cells in Excel. To activate a dialogue box from The Ribbon click the arrow below the group as pictured and circled above. This is the Dialogue Box launcher. Here is the Font Dialogue box from Word. This contains many of our familiar features and tabs, except Text Effects is no longer a tab. The Dialogue box launcher is included for Paragraphs and Font and other areas, too. The Font Dialogue box allows you to use formatting that is not in the Ribbon or Home Tab, such as different Strikethroughs; however, most of these commands are in the Home Tab’s Font Group. A Hot Tip! The Default Font in Office 2010 is the Calibri font or other font based on your Theme. If you want to change your default font to another font, such as Times New Roman, you activate the Font Dialogue box, choose your font from the list, and set your font size as displayed here. Be careful not to select a color, underline, or other option that you do not want. After selecting your font and size, click the Set As Default button, circled above. A dialogue box appears for you to make this change to your current document or for all documents that you create from this time forward. I want to have this font and size on all of my new documents so I have this selected. Click OK. Next, click OK at the Font Dialogue box and all new documents will use these settings. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 40 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services A Hot Tip! By default Word includes After Spacing for you and Line Spacing, many people do not like these defaults. These defaults unfortunately ruin labels, new documents, and other items so text won’t properly fit on a page or label template. I prefer to set my Spacing of Before and After to 0 pt and Line Spacing to Single and click the Default button at the bottom of the paragraph pane as displayed at right. Word will ask you if you want to only change this document or all documents. I have made my Spacing changes and I am selecting All documents based on the Normal template. I click OK twice to set my paragraph spacing so my labels and other documents will not have these annoying defaults. I can always make my change using the steps above to individual documents and paragraphs, etc. I can use the dialogue box or I can use the Ribbon’s Paragraph Group in the Page Layout Tab. The Line Spacing button is on the Home Tab’s Paragraph Group. Write your notes here: _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 41 Wo r d Te x t E f f e c t s New for Office 2010! When you select text in Word 2010 you can add some interesting effects to your text with the New Text Effects button and menu conveniently located in your Home Tab and Font Group. I am adding a Shadow, Reflection, and Glow to the headings to a document. These effects add a lot of pizzazz to your text, as you can see, not to mention tacky. Important Gotcha! Unfortunately Text Effects to do not convert to previous versions of Office, including Office 2007. Word strips away your text effects, but keeps all of the text and other formatting when you or someone else opens the file in Word 2007 and its predecessors. These effects do convert to PDF very well using the Save As feature in Word. Select some text or a heading in the Word Manual Document and click your Text Effect button and using Live Preview notice how your text appears as you move through your gallery of preset formats. After choosing by clicking the preset format you like, modify your text with additional effects by clicking the Outline, Shadow, Reflection, and Glow items. At the end of each pane, you will see Options, such as Shadow options as pictured above. Choosing these button and items activates the dialogue box and panes displayed at right. I find that I don’t need to use the box often with all of the other options I have for adding a glow, shadow, and so on. I have used some of these effects on my headings for this book. . Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 42 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Let’s practice creating your own bullet and using bullets as symbols and pictures in Office 2010. 1. With your Word Manual document open, press your CTRL and End keys on your keyboard to navigate to the bottom of your document (Page 16) select the list beginning with “Customizing the Ribbon” through “Working with Paste Options and Paste Preview” or type your own list in a document. 2. Using the Paragraph Group on the Home tab, Click the Bullet command button. Notice the Bullet Library, as you use different bullets, Word will add them to your library. From the Menu choose Define New Bullet. 3. The Define New Bullet Dialogue Box. 4. Click the Symbol. . . button and the Symbol Dialogue box appears and the Font is Symbol. Notice all other neat bullets available and there are plenty more. 5. Using the Drop Down arrow for the Font: box scroll through and locate Wingdings or Webdings to find some interesting bullets. Click a different bullet and click OK. 6. I am using the all-powerful Microsoft Logo bullet. 7. At the Define New Bullet Dialogue box, Click OK. The bullet changes for you. You can choose from a variety of bullets. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 43 Let’s use a picture or Clip Art for our bulleted list. 1. With your bulleted list selected, Open the Define New Bullet Format Dialogue box and Click the Picture. . . button. 2. The Picture Bullet library opens for you to search for a specific type of bullet or the scroll through and select your bullet. I am using the blue, funky looking spiral for my picture bullet. 3. Click the picture bullet you wish and click OK. 4. Click OK at your Define New bullet box and your new picture bullet appears for your list. A Hot Tip! You can use your own picture or logo as a bullet by clicking the Import. . . button on the Picture Bullet Dialogue box. When you click Import, Word opens for you to navigate to your pictures to select a photo to use. After selecting your picture, click the Add button and the photo exists in your Picture Bullet dialogue box. Also, notice your Bullet Gallery as you use Bullets they automatically become part of your Gallery to use in other documents. I have added my Geek Cap logo. Word adds the Recently Used Bullets section and Document Bullets section as you build and use your Bullets. While you may use the Ribbon and Home Tab for your bullets, bullets and numbering are included in your shortcut menu when you right click a selected area as pictured at right. Here’s why I like using and customizing Bullets: Creates interesting lists, Highly customizable, Organizes your items, I have nothing better to do on weekends. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 44 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services E x c e l ’ s Fo r m a t s Let’s examine some of the new formatting techniques for Excel. Open the 2007 Track workbook. As with Word, the Home Tab contains items formerly on the Standard and Formatting Toolbar. Pictured above are the Font, Alignment, and Number Groups on the Home Tab of Excel 2010. Some of the command buttons are the same throughout the applications, such as the font, font size, bold, italic, and so on. However, with Excel we have command buttons that we use frequently in the application and these favorite Excel formats are easier to get to and use. For example, Alignment group will be popular with users. As now we can align our cells, rows, and columns at the click of a button rather than activating the dialogue box. Also, the Number Group will be popular for you in using the new version of Excel. Let’s use some of these new items on your Home Tab. 1. With your Track workbook open and in the Jan Tab, increase the height of Row 2 by moving your cursor between Row 2 and Row 3’s header and with the double-headed arrow click drag down to make Row 2 bigger. 2. Next select Row 2 with the title January, 2012. 3. Click the Middle Align button on your Alignment Group, notice that January, 2012 centers horizontally and vertically, now. 4. Next, select Row 7. Click the new Text Wrap button on the top row and last icon on your Alignment Group. In Cell I7 type Total Payment, your text wraps around now. You may have to increase the row width to see your text wrap. 5. Another popular and useful command button in Excel is the Merge and Center icon. Excel 2010 improves on this greatly. Cell A2 is a merged and center cell spanning Columns A through J. We’ll merge and center cells A1 through J1. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 45 6. Select cells A1 through J1. 7. Click the drop down arrow of your Merge and Center icon and notice the options you have, now. The Merge Across makes merging cells and using other alignment such as left and right easier. 8. Click the Merge & Center item. 9. If you need the dialogue box for Format Cells and the Alignment tab, you may click the Dialogue box launcher arrow. The familiar Format Cells dialogue box appears and at the Alignment tab show here. Another improvement in formatting is the excellent Number Group in the Home Tab. This is going to save you lots of time in changing your date, accounting, and other Excel formats. 1. With your Track Workbook open and in the Jan tab, select cells B8 through B95. 2. Next click the drop down arrow in the Box at the top of your Number Group. 3. The shortcut menu at right appears for you to select a different date or numbering scheme. 4. If you click the More Number Formats . . . item Excel activates the Format Cells Dialogue box at the Number tab for you. 5. Click the Long Date format and your cells change for you. You may need to widen the column. 6. Using the Number Format box again, change cells B8 through B95 back to a Short Date format. You may need to decrease the column width. 7. Next, select cells I8 through I95 and click the Dollar sign (Accounting) command button’s drop down arrow. This is currently a Currency format. You may quickly change this to Accounting clicking this $ button or using the drop down arrow for other currency formats, such as Euro. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 46 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services 8. Click the English (U.S.) item and your figures change to Accounting. Clicking the More Accounting Formats . . . item opens the Number tab of the Format Cells dialogue box at the Accounting Category. 9. Next change cells I8 through I95 back to Currency using the Number Format box. As with Word, when you right click in a cell Excel’s shortcut menu appears. The Shortcut menu is expanded and much more powerful than previous versions of Excel for example you can Filter and Sort in a variety of ways through the Shortcut menu – we will look at the new ways of Sorting and Filtering later. The Mini Toolbar is included in your short cut menu when you right click a cell and contains many popular icons, such as the Accounting formats and Merge and Center command buttons. Excel 2010 contains the Paste Options and Paste Preview buttons. Since PowerPoint and Word are very similar in using the Home Tab and Font and Paragraph groups, we’ll look at other PowerPoint formats later through the new designs and themes. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 47 Keyboard Shortcuts and Key Tips Now, that we are familiar with the Home Tab’s formatting let’s look at cut, copy, and the paste options available as well as editing. Since the menu bar is gone, the Edit menu items are concentrated in the Home Tab, including find and replace. The good old keyboard shortcuts are still available and are popular with many users. Here are the Editing common keyboard shortcuts using the Control (CTRL) Key and the corresponding keys: Keyboard shortcut Command CTRL + A Select All CTRL + B Bold CTRL + C Copy CTRL + D Word – Font Format Excel – Fill Down PowerPoint - Duplicate Outlook – Delete in Main interface Outlook – Font Format in Notes section of objects CTRL + E Word and PowerPoint Center Alignment – Paragraph Excel – Unassigned /Doesn’t work CTRL + F Find CTRL + G Go To CTRL + H Replace CTRL + I Italic CTRL + J Word and PowerPoint Justify Alignment – Paragraph Excel- Unassigned/Doesn’t work CTRL + K Insert Hyperlink Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 48 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services CTRL + L Word and PowerPoint Left Alignment – Paragraph Excel-Unassigned/Doesn’t work CTRL + N New CTRL + O Open CTRL + P Print CTRL + R Right Align CTRL + S Save Excel Create Table CTRL + T Word Hanging Indent CTRL + U Underline CTRL + V Paste (The Paste icon will appear offering you popular options, such a Match Destination formatting) CTRL + W Close – Closes the Workbook in Excel, the Document in Word, and the Presentation in PowerPoint CTRL + X Cut CTRL + Y Repeat Last Action CTRL + Z Undo ESC This key cancels the current command or operation. There are other keyboard shortcuts still around, too. You can use the help system in each application for a list of all keyboard shortcuts that perform a variety of operations for you, just type Keyboard Shortcuts in the Help Search Box. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 49 Now, new to Office 2007/2010 are keyboard shortcuts called Key Tips. To activate your Key Tips, press the ALT key or F10 key on your keyboard. Office displays screen tips or Microsoft calls these badges pictured here. To activate a Tab press your ALT key to activate the Key Tips and then press corresponding badge key, for example press ALT then H to activate the Home Tab and the badges for this tab’s commands. Let’s try this in 2010 Word. 1. Open Word Manual file. 2. Press your Alt key to activate your Key Tips or you may press the Function 10 (F10) key on your keyboard to display the Key Tips. 3. With your Key Tips visible, press the P key to activate the Page Layout Tab. Notice that Word places Key Tips on all of your commands on the Page Layout Tab. 4. Press the O key to activate your Orientation commands and choices. 5. Press the Down Arrow to select Landscape and then the Enter key for Word to accept you command. Your document turns into Landscape Orientation. 6. Now, Press ALT or F10 to activate your Key Tips. Press P for Page Layout, O for Orientation, and Portrait should select. Finally, press enter to return your document to Portrait. 7. Select a Paragraph in your Word Manual document, then press your ALT key to activate your Key Tips and then H key to activate the Home Tab. Word 2010 activates your Home Tab with all of the Key Tip badges for you to use. Notice you can press 1 to Bold Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 50 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services selected text, so now you may use CTRL + B or ALT+1 to Bold your selected text. The difference in using CTRL commands and ALT Key Tips is you must have the Key Tip badge displayed to use the command. 8. Finally, Activate your Key Tips Press the Key Tip for Undo and press enter to Undo your Bold. Let’s use the Key Tips in Excel. 1. In your Track workbook and the Jan Worksheet click cell D8. We will put in Freeze Pane on this cell so our columns to the left remain in view and our rows 1-7. 2. Press F10 or the ALT key, Press W for View and then F for Freeze Panes. 3. Finally, Press F to Freeze your current cell. 4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 to Unfreeze your Panes. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 51 The Functions Keys and combination keys such as Shift and a Function key are still around, too. Here are the Function Keys from Word; other Office programs share some of these function keys, but not all. The help system is terrific for learning the other function key magic in each application, just type Function Keys in the Help box – this will take you to all of the keyboard shortcuts, including Function keys. Function Key F1* F2 Command Help. Move text or graphics. (Shift + F2 is copy text or graphics.) F4 Repeat last action. F5* Go To Dialogue box. F6 Go to next pane or frame. F7* Good old Spell Check. F8 Extend your selection (or increases your highlighted areas.) F9 Update Fields and/or Tables. F10* Show Key Tips. F11 Go to the Next Field F12* Save As * These are the same across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Now, that we are familiar with the old (even ancient – DOS) keyboard short cut ways of accomplishing these editing tasks (and the new Key Tips), let’s look at the new way in Office 2007/2010 of using Editing’s popular commands. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 52 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services At Home with Cut, Copy, and Paste Since the menu bar is gone, the Edit menu items are concentrated in the Home Tab, including find and replace. In Outlook, Cut, Copy, and Paste are on the Format Text Tab and in the Message Tab for New Email messages. A Hot Tip! New for Office 2010 are Paste Preview and Paste Options. The Paste Preview allows you to see the results of pasting before you actually click the Paste Option button for the selected text, photo, graphic, or other object in the Office Suite. Microsoft performed studies and found that the number one reason we use the ever-popular Undo button is incorrect Pasting, so now you may preview your paste options to ensure you are pasting correctly. I have found this very helpful in using Paste Options and Paste Preview. While you may use the Home Tab’s Clipboard Group you may use your right click shortcut menu to use Paste Options and Preview, too. You will enjoy using this wonderful, new feature in Office 2010. 1. Open the Word Manual file. 2. Ensure you are on the Home Tab. Pictured at right and at the beginning of your Home Tab are the command buttons for Paste, Cut, Copy, and the Format Painter. 1. In your Word Manual File, go to the second page and select the first paragraph. 2. Using your formatting command buttons change the Font color and bold your paragraph. 3. Click your copy icon. 4. Open a New Blank document using the New Document command button or Pressing the CTRL+N keys. 5. Click the Paste Icon and notice as you move through your Paste Options items, Word provides a screen tip showing the type of paste you are previewing in your document, such as Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, Text Only, etc. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 53 6. After previewing your Pasting options click the option you wish for your paragraph in the new document. 7. Next return to your Word Manual select another paragraph and copy this paragraph and in your new document right click and from the shortcut menu hover over your Paste Options to view the types of pasting to perform. Click the Option you want from the collapsed shortcut menu. Paste Special is under your Paste Icon’s drop down arrow; however with Office 2010 you will need to use this less. Let’s use Excel’s Paste Preview. 1. Open the Track Workbook and in the Jan Tab select the table Cells A7 through J95. 2. Click your Copy Button and Open a New Workbook or Worksheet. 3. Click your Paste button or use your shortcut menu to preview your Paste Options in Excel. There are many options in Excel and some very popular ones that we use frequently in Excel, such as Transpose, Number and Values Formatting, Linked Picture, and so on. This helps so we don’t need to use Paste Special as much and we can see the paste changes before we paste. 4. After hovering over the options to preview each item as the table will appear in your new workbook, click the option you want to apply the correct paste. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 54 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services We have used the Icons and keyboard shortcuts to accomplish these tasks. As in previous versions of Office you may use the shortcut menus via right clicking to copy, cut, and paste and you may move items by clicking and dragging them or pressing your CTRL (Control) key as you click and drag to copy your items. The good old keyboard shortcuts of CTRL + C (for Copy), CTRL + X (for Cut), and CTRL + V (for Paste) work great, too. You may activate the Clipboard in Office 2007/2010 by clicking the Clipboard arrow – circled at right for you. Thankfully the Clipboard has changed very little and the Clipboard options as displayed at the bottom of the screen here still available. The Clipboard allows you to place items from the Internet and Office Applications for you to reuse across the Office Suite. With the clipboard, you can paste items in various documents and at different times. When you close an application that used the Clipboard, Office will ask you if you want the Clipboard available for other applications and uses. If you click no, the Clipboard clears the items. You may store up to 24 items on the Clipboard and when you reach the 25th item Office will replace this new item with the oldest item on your Clipboard. I always check Collect Without Showing the Office Clipboard to I may copy and/or cut my information onto the Clipboard without remembering to activate my Clipboard in an Office application particularly if I am copying something from the web. You may quickly paste an item into your document, spreadsheet, email, or presentation by clicking the item of choosing the shortcut menu as displayed here. You may delete items, too. An Important Gotcha! If you place a large amount of data, graphics, photos, and/or text the Clipboard may not collect the item for you. The Clipboard is assigned an amount of memory and you may exceed the limit. You will receive a message at the lower right part of your screen alerting you the item was not collected. The dialogue box appears at right. You may still paste the item that you copy or cut; however, it will not appear on your Clipboard for you to use later. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 55 I n s e r t Ta b Another common and important tab across the 2010 Office Suite is the Insert Tab. This replaces the Insert Menu item, the Drawing Toolbar, and other toolbars/dialogue boxes in previous Office versions. Like other Office 2007/2010 this saves a lot of time trying to find where to put in pictures, charts, AutoShapes, diagrams, and other objects in your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. We will look at some of the common items such as Header and Footer, Pictures, and Shapes in the Insert Tab. We will examine some of the other items such as Tables and Charts as we work in the specific applications later. We will start with a new and terrific feature of Office 2010 – the Screenshot Editing and Screenshot Clipping features which saves a lot of time and steps in adding screenshot images to all of the Office applications. Speaking of Screenshots, here are screenshots/pictures of the Insert Tab in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. You will see common features, the new Screenshot editing button, and other important items. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 56 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Wow! What an Improvement – as a writer and specifically a technical writer I use many screenshots in my documents as you can tell from this manual. The process required several steps in the past or the use of a third party vendor to accomplish robust and quick screen shot editing and use. Office 2010 provides Screenshot editing built into the applications. With files and programs open and active, you may use the Insert tab and Screenshot. I like using Screen Clipping because whichever file you were previously working you may click Screen Clipping and the previous file opens and dims for you to click and drag the area that you wish to insert your Screenshot. If you simply click the item in the Available Window menu, the entire screen inserts into your file. After the insertion then you will need to perform any formatting, such as cropping and resizing. As an example, I open an Excel workbook with a listing of clients; this file appears first in my list of Available Windows. As displayed above I am choosing Screen Clipping and since I was in the Excel worksheet last, Office opens my Excel worksheet and dims for me to click and drag to select the area I want to Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 57 insert into the document as displayed here. After I click and drag the area and then release my mouse button, this area automatically inserts into my Word document! In Outlook, I want to insert a portion of a map for a client that is “directionally challenged” (a man no doubt). After using a map program to locate the address, I open Outlook and a new mail message. I click the Insert Tab and Screenshot. The first item in the Available Windows is the map. When I click screen clipping Outlook minimizes and the mapping web application activates for me to choose the area I want including in the email. After clicking, dragging, and releasing my mouse button, the area inserts into my email message as displayed here. This saves a lot of time, especially for all of the screenshots you see in my manuals and books. If you have Windows 7 there is a nice Snipping Tool that you may use as well. The Snipping Tool allows you to Snip your Desktop and other items that may not include in the Office screenshot. You may use this feature for error messages and other alerts from your computer to email to a technical support person. An Important Gotcha! You may not (actually CAN NOT) have your files/applications minimized to view in the Screenshot menu. Your files must be open, active, and not minimized. Let’s Practice using this new feature. 1. Open Outlook and create a new email message. 2. Next Open Excel and the Track Workbook. Sort the worksheet by customer name we only want to send ABC information to the client as a screenshot in the Email message. After sorting Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 58 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services your table alphabetically by client, return to your Email. 3. Click in the body of your Email and your Insert Tab items activate. Click the Screenshot button and Outlook displays your Available Windows – notice the Excel Workbook is the first pane in the window. 4. Click Screen Clipping, Office leaves Outlook and opens the Excel Workbook for you which dims. Click the cross hair cursor and drag the information for ABC Company as displayed above. After you click and drag, release your mouse button and Office inserts the Screenshot into your email. Clicking an item in your Available Windows inserts the entire screen for you to edit and crop. You should practice Screenshot editing by inserting a map or either item from the Internet into a Word document or Outlook email. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 59 The Insert Tab contains the Insert Picture button which is very popular in Word and PowerPoint. Office 2007/2010 has a Picture Contextual Tab that replaces the Picture Toolbar. The Word’s Picture Tab is more robust than PowerPoint and Excel’s; however, they are all very similar. We will use Word for inserting and formatting a picture. 1. Open the Word Manual and go to Page 2 and click after a paragraph. 2. Click the Insert Tab and Click the Picture Command button to insert a picture from a file. 3. Navigate to where your photos are located or use the files that accompanied this material. 4. Select the photo you want and double click it to add it to your document or select the photo and click the Insert Button at the bottom of your Insert Picture Dialogue box. 5. Word inserts the picture in your document. You may resize the picture by clicking on one of the circles on the corners or a square on the sides of your picture and with the double headed arrow drag in to make your photo smaller. Using the corner circles is best in order to keep your height and width proportional. The green circle at the top of your photo allows you to rotate the picture, if you like. Displayed above is the Picture Tools and Format Contextual tab. When you click or select a picture, this tab activates for you to click and make changes to your photo. We’ll examine some of the important parts of this tab and corresponding Command buttons and menus. With your photo selected, let’s use the Adjust Group first. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 60 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services 1. You may change the Brightness and Contrast by clicking the Corrections command button and receiving a menu at right. As you move through the gallery Word displays a snapshot of your change to your picture to Sharpen or Soften the photo or to change the Brightness and Contrast. The Picture Corrections Options link at the bottom of the Pane opens the Picture format pane for you to highly customize your photo corrections. 2. The Color options and associated gallery allow you to change the color shade of your photo to another color and to use gray scale, sepia, and black and white and may other color variations. 3. New to Office 2010 and Photo Tools is the Artistic Effects button and gallery. This can provide some unusual and creative effects for your photo or may provide some horrific and undesireable effects, too. With your photo selected you should hover over these items and Word will use Live Preview so you may see the effect before clicking to apply the effect. 4. Compress pictures changes the file size or space of the photo in your document after you have resized or cropped the picture. For example, if you insert a 5 Megabyte photo and reduce the size of the photo or the area the photo takes you may compress the photo so that now the photo size may only be 1 Megabyte saving you disk space and file size space. 5. The Change Picture item is a good, new feature which allows you to select a replacement picture without deleting the current photo and going through the process of inserting another picture in it’s place. With the current photo selected you can click the Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 61 Change Picture and your Insert Picture dialogue box appears for you to select another picture. After selecting the picture you may double click the new photo or click the insert button at the bottom of the Insert Picture dialogue box and Word replaces your photo. 6. The Reset Picture item allows you to restore your photo to the original format for your picture, except this doesn’t affect areas that you have cropped or resized nor does this affect your picture position within your document. Reset works on your Adjustments and Styles. Now, Let’s use the Picture Styles which is much improved in the new version of Office. 1. With your photo selected scroll through and look at some of the styles for your picture. I am displaying the Metal Oval at right. 2. Next add a Border and change the borders color and weight and other items for you. I have displayed the Picture Borders drop down list items at right with the Weight changes. 3. Also, review the many different types of Picture Effects you can add to your photo. Choose a different effect to give your photo. I gave mine Reflection and Glow effect. I have use the Glow option on the screenshots throughout this manual. There are lots of options from which to choose. So play around with some of these, such as Reflection and the 3D effects you can give. Now, let’s look at The Arrange Group. All of the applications have Send to Back and Bring to Front and other layering options for your photos and objects, but Word is more extensive than PowerPoint and Excel because of Text Wrapping that is why I am using Word as my example for pictures. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 62 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services 1. Select your photo and in the Picture Tools Format tab click the Position icon. This displays various places that you may have Word put your photo on the page with text wrapping. Choose one of these options. You can always click and drag the photo to where you want to position it; this is an easy way to position your photo with a click rather than clicking and dragging the photo. 2. Next, click on the Text Wrapping button as displayed here. This offers many ways of position your photo within your text or through your text and how text should or should not wrap around your photo. Try some of these options out, especially Tight, Square, and In Line with Text. You may want to move your photo around in your document to view how each of these changes your text with your picture. I use Text wrapping in my manuals so I may have the photos/screenshots in the margins and to have the text nicely wrap around the photo. Word provides other options in the Arrange Group for you to position your picture and objects in relation to your page. The Alignment and Rotation options are pictured here. I have displayed the Alignment options and the Rotation/Flip features for you in changing your pictures. Hot Tip! I like using the Green Circle above the photo to rotate my pictures and objects to any position or angle. The Rotation command button features are good for exact 90°angles. With your photograph selected, change some of the Alignments and Rotate your photo around. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 63 The final group on the Picture Format Tools is Size; this provides the Cropping tool and ability to change the Height and Width of your photograph as displayed at right. When you select your picture and click the cropping tool, cropping marks appear on your picture for you to click and drag in to remove parts of the photograph. You may use the new Crop to Shape and change the Aspect Ratio, which keeps your photo/graphic proportional i.e. the the original photo maintains its height and width. My photograph with the cropping marks appears at right ready for me to position my cursor over one of them and click and drag in to remove parts of the photograph. This is excellent to remove unwanted people in your photograph as long as they are around you or flank you not in the center of the photo. With your photograph selected use the cropping tool to remove some of the wasted space in your photograph. Also, change the photo’s size by using the Height and Width items in the Size options; however, I prefer the good old click and drag method, too. If you prefer to use a menu or dialogue box, which I do not, to accomplish these tasks and customize your photograph further, the New Office Suite provides the Format Picture Dialogues box. The arrow at the lower right corner of the Group is the Dialogue Box Launcher in Office 2007/2010, this activates the associated dialogue box. The Dialogue Launcher is circled in red at right for you from the Styles Group. This appeared after I clicked the Picture Styles Dialogue Box Launcher. I have selected the Text Box pane. To customize the Autofit and other elements. The Insert Tab’s other items such as Clip Art, Word Art, and Shapes work much the same way as the Picture Tools. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 64 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services A Hot Tip! A Command Button that Office 2010 omits from Office 2007 that I enjoyed is the Change Shape button. When we customized our Word Quick Access Toolbar, I listed this as a favorite button. I like this because I can format my picture or other graphic item and then change the shape of the photo/graphic. I am displaying my photo as a heart shape using the Change Shape button I added to my Quick Access Toolbar. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 65 Open the Word Manual File. Both Excel and Word have Themes that you can apply to your documents and worksheets. Themes exist in Outlook and PowerPoint, too, but in different tabs. PowerPoint’s previous Design Templates are now known as Themes in the PowerPoint Design Tab. Themes have color schemes, fonts, and other items for you to change the appearance of your text and objects. 1. With the Word Manual file open and at the Page Layout Tab, Click the Themes command button and from the list choose a Theme. I have chosen Foundry. 2. Next click on the Home Tab and in the Styles Groups notice the changes to your Heading and other items to select. Click on the Font box and notice that the Theme fonts are at the top. 3. Click on the Page Layout Tab and Choose another Theme. 4. Return to your Home tab and notice the changes in your Styles Group and Font selections. Word will not change all of your items depending upon the Styles you are using, Template that the document is based, and other factors. Themes will update certain items and puts the colors, fonts, and other items quickly for you to find and change in your Home Tab’s styles, formatting command buttons, and selections. For example, if you are using Headings 1, Heading 2, etc. the Theme will change those for you, but generally not your default body text font. Notice in the Themes List that you can Reset to Theme from Template to remove any formatting and changes the current them altered. After I chose Foundry, my Heading fonts changed and other items, such as colors. Themes only work on 2007/2010 documents; the Themes group will gray on documents that are not 2007/2010 documents or files. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 66 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services The command buttons next to the Themes button displayed here allow you to change your Color, Font, and Object formats. The top button is color schemes, then font schemes, and finally objects. Notice that you may change your color schemes from the cascading menu and you may change your font schemes. Besides having the ability to change your colors and fonts, you may create new color schemes and font schemes. The color scheme menu appears at right and I have created a new font scheme for Tahoma as my Heading Font and Trebuchet MS as my Body font pictured below from the Create New Theme Fonts at the bottom of the menu displaying the built in font schemes. In accomplishing this I changed Foundry to use my Greg’s Font. When you create new Themes, Theme Colors, and Fonts the carries to all of the Office applications for you to use in different workbooks, presentations, and so on. Play around with the Word Manual document with different color schemes, fonts, and with the Styles box in the Home tab change some of your text to Headings 1, Headings 2 and notice the difference when you change Themes. 1. Next, open the 2007 Track file in Excel. 2. Choose a Theme and make changes as you accomplished in Word. There is very little, if any, difference in working with the Themes in Excel. I am using the Concourse Theme for my 2007 Track workbook. This changes my row colors and some of the fonts and, like Word, the Home tab font box contain the Theme’s fonts at the top. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 67 Print Preview and Print: A N e w Wo r l d i n O f f i c e 2 0 1 0 Rarely do we create Word documents, Excel workbooks, Outlook items, or PowerPoint presentations without the idea of printing these files. The new Office 2007/2010 interface has a type of tab called Program tab. The Program Tab replaces all other tabs and displays only this current and active tab, until you close the Program Tab. We will learn this new tab using the new Print Preview Program tab. As we learned earlier, there is the new Print, Print Preview, and Page Setup pane in the File Tab. By Default, the Office Applications with use this new view and terrific pane; however, there are times when you will want to use the good-old fashion Print Preview which Office 2010 does a poor job of navigating and finding. A Hot Tip! When you use the CTRL + P keyboard shortcut for Print the Office Application opens your File tab at the New Print and Print Preview Pane. You can use the Print options, Page Setup, and Print Preview in one convenient location. To activate the traditional Print Preview you will need to add the button to your Custom Tab in the Ribbon or the Quick Access Toolbar. Unfortunately, the command buttons look the same and you cannot modify them so pay attention to the screen tip. As displayed at right, for Word I am adding the Print Preview Edit Mode button to my Quick Access Toolbar using the All Commands. In Excel, I added a similar button named Print Preview Full Screen. Unfortunately, I could Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 68 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services not find the traditional Print Preview in PowerPoint, too bad, but the new Print Preview and Print Pane will address 99% of your needs, but not all. As I related earlier, I have added my Print Preview Edit Mode to my Custom Tab in the Ribbon as Displayed here. The Tab options allow me to rename the button and assign a different picture button to my command. I renamed my button Print Preview Traditional and changed the button, too. Please use the Customize the Ribbon section earlier in the manual to accomplish these tasks. We will open a file in each application and look at Print Preview in each. As we go through these options toggle between these files using your Taskbar. The Print Preview Tab in Word contains more options. 1. In Word, Open the file Word Manual. 2. In Excel, Open the file Track. 3. In PowerPoint, Open the file Power of PowerPoint. 4. In each of your open files, click your Print Preview and Print command button on your Quick Access Toolbar (if you added it to your Quick Access Toolbar), Press CTRL + P or click the File Tab and click Print. The new Print Preview and Print pane activates for you as pictured below in each of the applications. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 69 As we reviewed earlier, you may set your Copies, Select your Printer and Properties, and change your settings. I have changed my printing to Both Sides and you may set your page range and orientation here as well. You can use the Scrolling buttons and Zoom Slider too. Review each of these items using your Word Manual. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 70 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services In previous versions of Word, I liked the ability to edit my document in Print Preview; unfortunately, the Print Preview and Print panes do not allow this option. I have added the Print Preview Edit Mode button to my Quick Access Toolbar and Custom Tab in the Ribbon. When I click this, Word places me in the traditional Print Preview Mode. With this Program Tab active, you can uncheck or deactivate the Magnifier box and edit your document. The Magnifier appears when you place your cursor over your document; you receive a Magnifying glass with a plus sign or a minus sign depending on whether you are Zooming in or out for magnification. Try it. 1. In your Word Manual document in Print Preview Edit Mode and at Page 2. Click in your page and the Magnifier should zoom into your document or magnify it. Word turns the plus sign into a negative sign in the Magnifying glass. 2. After you zoom in to your Page 2, Uncheck your magnifier box and Word allows you to edit your document. Perhaps delete a word, change a paragraph, or type in a new sentence. This is great for quick and easy edits. This is not good for extensive formatting changes or typing a lot of information; however, if you right click – you have the shortcut menu and the mini toolbar to use to add formatting and other options for you. You may use your Quick Access Toolbar as well. 3. After making your edits, click the Magnifier box, again, to turn the Magnifier on. Click in your document to Zoom Out. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 71 Pictured above is my Track workbook and Jan Sheet in the New Excel Print Preview and Print Pane. I have clicked the Show Margins button (circled above) so I may change my column widths and margins by position my cursor over the dotted lines and column “blocks” and clicking and dragging in or out to widen or short my margins and columns. I love this so I don’t have to go back to the Normal View to make these changes. Place your Jan Worksheet in Print Preview and Print pane and make changes to the margins, columns, print on both sides (if your printer allows this) and look at the scaling. As I wrote earlier, I have added the traditional Print Preview button to my access toolbar; the button is named Print Preview Full Screen. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 72 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Like Word and Excel, PowerPoint’s Print Preview and Print pane allows you to choose your copies, printer, range of printing, and other items. PowerPoint allows you to change your color scheme here and all-important is the Full Page Slides or the former Print What command as displayed at right. I have changed my option to 6 Slides Horizontal. Review this Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 73 options and navigate to other slides and look at the different color options. Now, that we have studied the new tabs and news items that span the applications and are common to all particularly Excel, Work, and PowerPoint, let’s look at the Views and new features of Outlook, which has undergone significant changes for Office 2010. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 74 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services The New Power o f Power Point We’ll learn the new Power of PowerPoint 2010 by creating a new presentation and looking at some of the new ways of working with PowerPoint. 1. Open PowerPoint 2010. 2. At the first screen, Click in the Title Text Box and enter a title for your presentation. 3. Next, click in the Subtitle box and type your name, press enter, type your title and other information you want as a subtitle. 4. Click the New Slide Command button on your Home Tab and from the cascading menu choose Title and Content for your new slide. The new version of PowerPoint allows you to choose the type of layout you want before you insert a new slide. 1. With your new slide 2, type a Title. 2. Click in your Content Area and enter a bullet list. 3. I have used sub-bullets for the New and Improved File Tab items by pressing my tab key at the main bullet to receive a secondary bullet. To return to the primary bullet Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 75 level after typing Layouts, I pressed Shift + Tab keys to go back you may use your Increase and Decrease Icons on the Home Tab, too. 4. After creating your bullet list, Save your Presentation as PowerPoint Practice. We’ll create two more slides with a photo and clip art and then a video slide.Next, we’ll change our design and automate our slides.. 1. Click the New Slide Command Button and Choose a Title Only Layout for your new slide. 2. Click in the Title section and type Photo and Clip Art. 3. Click in the Insert Tab and Click the Insert Picture Command Button, Navigate to where the photos are stored on your computer and insert a picture or use photos accompany this manual. 4. PowerPoint activates your Format Picture Tools with your photo selected. 5. Change the style of your photo, Add a border, and other elements to your picture using the Format Tab. 6. After formatting your photo, Click the Insert Tab and then Click the Clip Art Command Button. 7. PowerPoint activates the Clip Art Task Pane for you to enter a Search for: criteria and locate Clip Art for you. Type in a category in the Search for box and click Go – I have entered education. 8. PowerPoint displays the available Clip Art. Scroll through an find a clip art you like and double click it to insert the artwork into your slide. 9. Resize the art work, rotate and use the Picture Styles Gallery to jazz up your Clip Art. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 76 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Artistic Effects on Photos As we learned earlier, Office 2010 adds Artistic Effects to the options available to enhance and alter photographs. I have a photo selected at right and with my Artistic Effects pane active I can view the various effects on through Live Preview to determine which effect I may want to use. Design Tab Now, let’s apply a design and better formats for our presentation. 1. Click the Design Tab. 2. In the Themes group, scroll through your gallery of Design Themes. Notice as you move your cursor over your thumbnail themes PowerPoint provides a preview of the design on your presentation. PowerPoint will not apply the design them until you click one of the design thumbnails. 3. Click a couple of themes to see the effects on your presentation and when you find one you want, keep it. 4. Click the Background Styles button and perhaps choose a different background for your presentation theme. 5. Save your Presentation. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 77 Let’s add transition to our presentation. 1. Click the Transition Tab which is new for PowerPoint 2010. In the Transition to This Slide section scroll through the Gallery and Preview the different types of transitions you may have. There are many new selections and Options for the Effects in 2010. Note: Animations are movements for objects within a slide and transitions are how slides move from one slide to another slide. 2. Choose a transition and click the Apply to All button and perhaps change your speed. For humor, you may give a transition sound; however, I would avoid having a sound transition on every slide. 3. Click your preview icon to see your transition or click the Slide Show View button to see your presentation in slide show and click to advance through your presentation. PowerPoint 2010 has taken Transitions and placed transitions in its own tab as we have seen. The Animation Tab replaces the Animation Pane in many areas but not all. We will examine the basics of Animation and using some of the new features in the Animation Tab. 1. On your title slide, choose your title text box. 2. Click an Animation in the Animation Group – I am choosing the Fly In effect and then I change the direction from the Effect Options menu as displayed above. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 78 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services New to PowerPoint 2010 is the Animation Painter. Similar to the Format Painter in the Office Suite, PowerPoint 2010 has the Animation Painter which allows you to select an Animation and apply the Animation to other items and objects. Animation Painter provides a preview of the animation before you click to ensure this is the animation you want to paste. 1. Click in your animated Title Box and Click the 2. 3. 4. 5. Animation Painter. Next click you Sub-Title Text Box to apply the Fly In From Top Effect to your Sub-Title. Next click your Slide Show view at the lower part of your screen and Press Enter or Click to see your animated text in the Slide Show. Press the ESC key on your keyboard to return to edit your slide. Next, Animate your Bullet List on Slide Two. I am choosing Wipe and changing my direction to Left. On your own Animate your Photo and Clip Art on Slide Three; I am keeping all of my objects On Click for the Start. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 79 V i d e o To o l s – Fo r m a t a n d P l a y b a c k Ta b s i n P o w e r P o i n t PowerPoint 2010’s new Format and Playback Tabs for Video tools allow you to create interesting color, shapes, transitions, and many options for using videos in a presentation. The Format tab allows you to present your video in unusual shapes, colors, and effects as displayed at right. Let’s insert a Video and perform basic edits and formatting. 1. On the Home Tab, Click New Slide and choose Title and Content. 2. Give your Slide a Title – I have named my Tissue for Your Issue that describes the video. 3. Next Click the Insert Media Clip item in the content gallery – circled for you at right. 4. Navigate to your videos or choose one from the materials including in this manual. I am choosing my Tissue for Your Issue.wmv file. After selecting your video, click Insert. The video inserts into your slide. 5. Resize the video and notice the play button and items you may use without going into the Slide Show – Play your video and adjust the volume using the controls on your slide screen. Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. Page 80 How to Win in Office 2010 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services 6. Also, new for PowerPoint 2010 is the Video Tools and Playback and Format Tabs. With your Video select PowerPoint activates the Video Tools. Click the Playback tab and notice how you may adjust the volume, determine when and how the video starts, play full screen and other items you should try out. I have clicked the Trim Video to decrease the time by clicking the start slider and moving it in and then clicking the end slider and moving it in to lessen the start and top times of the video. I clicked OK. I have set the Fade In and Fade Out to 3:00 seconds. Make adjustments to your video and perhaps change the Start to Automatically and click the Play Full Screen item. Finally, view your changes in the Slide Show View. Also, new in PowerPoint 2010 is the Format Tab for Video Tools which is very similar to the Format Tab for Photos. With your video selected, change the color scheme I am using Sepia. Perhaps change the Shape I am using Teardrop and choose other effects to make your video really tacky! Play your video and look at your changes in the Slide Show View. Save your Presentation. Thanks for Learning! No Duplication Permitted. www.gregcreech.com Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Inc. How to Win in Office 2010 Page 81 T h a t ’ s h o w yo u W i n i n 2 0 1 0 ! I have more extensive manuals, classes, and workshops for each application in Office 2010 but this manual let’s you know important new features and functionality. Now, go forth and Win in Office 2010. Thank you. 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How to Win in Office 2010 Page 82 Greg Creech Techedutainment Services Index A G Advanced Options ..................................... 35 Advanced Word Option ............................. 26 Alignment group ........................................ 44 Animation Painter ..................................... 78 Animation Tab ........................................... 77 Artistic Effects............................................ 76 Autocorrect Options .................................. 33 Autofilter ................................................... 13 B Background Styles ..................................... 76 Bullet.......................................................... 36 Bullets and Numbering .............................. 38 Groups ...................................................... 15 H Home Tab.............................................15, 36 I Insert Picture ............................................ 75 Insert Picture button ................................ 59 Insert Tab .................................................. 55 K Key Tips ..................................................... 49 Keyboard Shortcuts .................................. 47 C Change Shape ............................................ 64 Clip Art ....................................................... 75 Clipboard ................................................... 54 Command Buttons..................................... 15 Common Tasks and Commands ................ 25 Copy ........................................................... 52 Create New Theme Fonts .......................... 66 Cropping tool ............................................. 63 CTRL + P ..................................................... 28 Customize Quick Access Toolbar ................. 9 Customize the Ribbon ............................... 18 Cut ............................................................. 52 D Default Font ............................................... 39 Design Tab ................................................. 76 Design Themes .......................................... 76 Dialogue Box launcher ............................... 39 F File Tab ...................................................... 24 Format Painter........................................... 38 Format Picture ........................................... 63 Functions Keys ........................................... 51 L Layout ....................................................... 75 Live Preview Feature ................................ 16 M Magnifier .................................................. 70 Merge and Center ..................................... 44 Middle Align .............................................. 44 Mini Toolbar ..........................................6, 38 Minimize the Ribbon ................................ 16 More Commands ........................................ 8 N New ........................................................... 31 New Slide .................................................. 74 New Tab .................................................... 19 New/Custom Group .................................. 19 Number Group .......................................... 44 Numbering ................................................ 36 O Options ..................................................... 32 Thanks for Learning! 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How to Win in Office 2010 P Page Set-up................................................ 28 Paste .......................................................... 52 Paste Special .............................................. 53 PDF............................................................. 30 Picture Contextual Tab .............................. 59 Picture Styles ............................................. 63 Picture Styles Gallery ................................. 75 Picture Tools and Format Contextual tab.. 59 Playback Tabs ............................................ 79 Popular Commands ................................... 19 Powerpoint’s Print Preview and Print ....... 72 Print ........................................................... 28 Print Preview ....................................... 28, 67 Print Preview and Print Pane..................... 68 Print Preview Full Screen ..................... 67, 71 Print Preview Program tab ........................ 67 Printing Pane ............................................. 28 Program tab. .............................................. 67 Proofing tab ............................................... 33 Page 83 Save & Send .............................................. 30 Save As ...................................................... 25 Save options.............................................. 34 Screen Clipping ......................................... 56 Screenshot editing .................................... 56 Show Readability statistics ....................... 33 Slide Show View ........................................ 77 T Text Effects ............................................... 41 Text effects button ................................... 41 Text Wrap ................................................. 44 The Ribbon ................................................ 16 Themes ..................................................... 65 Transition .................................................. 77 Transition Tab ........................................... 77 Trim Video ................................................ 80 U Undo ........................................................... 8 Q V Quick Access Toolbar ......................... 6, 8, 11 Video tools ................................................ 79 R W Recent documents............................... 25, 26 Recent Pane ............................................... 26 Recent Places............................................. 26 Ribbon ....................................................... 15 Word’s Print Preview and Print ................ 69 Z Zoom ........................................................... 6 S Save ........................................................... 25 Greg Creech © 2011 404-299-1706 www.gregcreech.com Thanks for Learning! 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