An Introduction to Windows 95 Office 97

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An Introduction to Windows 95 / Office 97

• Brad Paleg
• College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• 1997 Administrative Support Staff Conference
• http//www.agnr.umd.edu/users/css/admin97/

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An Introduction to Windows 95 / Office 97

• Oh man, Ive enlisted in Bill Gates army!

Brad - from the cover of the Conference brochure
(OY!)
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Why Windows 95?

• Fast performance and an easy-to-use interface
• Greater stability and protection
• A versatile platform for mobile computing
• The highest level of software and hardware
  compatibility

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Why Windows 95?

• Easy-to-use interface
• Help
• Start Button
• Taskbar

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Why Windows 95?

• Faster
• Explore
• Right Button Mouse
• Long file names

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Microsoft Office Pro 97

• Microsoft Office Pro 97 - is a family of programs
  containing Word 97, PowerPoint 97, and Excel 97,
  and Access 97, Microsoft's best-selling software
  packages that features a unified workspace,
  tighter integration between applications

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Microsoft Office Pro 97

• Software Licensing Office
• Costs
• CD Rom Media 20
• New License 52
• Upgrade License 41

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Why Office 97?

• PC Week (December 18, 1996 )
• The tightly integrated office
  applications and uniform interface in
  Microsoft Corp.'s Office 97
  give users what
  the company should have
  provided more than a year ago, when
  it shipped Office 95 on the
  heels of Windows 95.

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Why Office 97?

• Computer Retailer Week (January 06, 1997)
• Eighteen months ago, Computer Reseller News'
  Test Center stood alone in its crusade to declare
  Office 95 a hoax, a placebo placed on sale only
  so buyers of the new Windows 95 operating system
  would have something-anything-they could run on
  it. How things have changed.

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Why Office 97?

• Office Computing http//www.zdnet.com/pccomp/oc/pr
  ojects/0397covr/0397covr.html
• Office 97 ranks as Microsoft's first essential
  upgrade to its flagship application suite in many
  years.

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Word 97 - New Features

• The Letter Wizard automatically adds structure to
  a letter, converting known letter parts into
  AutoText List fields.

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Word 97 - New Features

• The Grammar Checker automatically checks for
  grammatical errors while you type.

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Word 97 - New Features

• Table Drawing Tool Microsoft Word 97 redefines
  the way users create tables by allowing users to
  use the equivalent of a pencil and an eraser to
  draw tables of any size or shape directly in
  their documents.

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Word 97 - New Features

• Save as HTML Saves any Word document to HTML
  format with the click of a button for posting to
  the Internet and corporate intranets.

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PowerPoint 97 - New Features

• AutoContent Wizard Get your thoughts down
  quickly by choosing from more than 35 new
  professionally designed content templates for
  presentations, flyers, or a personal home page.

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PowerPoint 97 - New Features

• Spell It Make every presentation perfect.
  PowerPoint alerts you to any misspellings as you
  work by displaying a red squiggly line beneath
  the misspelled word, and then suggests
  corrections.

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PowerPoint 97 - New Features

• Superior drawing tools with OfficeArt Use a rich
  collection of drawing tools,
  AutoShapes, curves, textures, and
  3-D and text effects to illustrate your point.

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PowerPoint 97 - New Features

• Presentation Designs Select from more than 30
  new, professionally designed
  templates and coordinated color
  schemes for great-looking presentations.

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PowerPoint 97 - New Features

• Save as HTML Wizard
  Automatically turns your file into a presentation
  for posting to the Web.

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PowerPoint 97 - New Features

• Action Buttons Easily add hyperlinks to other
  slides or files, or even to the Internet, using a
  set of predefined 3-D buttons reverse, home, and
  more.
• Example College of Agriculture Natural
  Resources Website

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From Office Computing (http//www.zdnet.com/pccomp
/oc/projects/0397covr/0397covr.html)

• You learn best by getting your hands
  dirty--watching as a solution takes shape, from
  the ground up.