Improving Your Skills Using Microsoft Office Programs

Convenient ways to get help:

1. Find basic instructions and tips in your email program, Outlook.  In the Bellingham School District,  look for basic lessons and quick tips posted by our applications specialist:
   • Scroll down Inbox Folder List, select Public Folders, then All Public Folders
   • Open the "Technology Tips & How-to's" folder
   • Click on Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Windows, or Word to find:
     • Instruction pages for program basics (documents in Word)
     • Tips and suggestions for specific skills and techniques (notes)

2. Link to an online tutorial on the Internet:
• Online Practice Modules from Internet 4 Classrooms
  • Links to PowerPoint, Word, Excel
  • Includes many suggestions for how to use the applications in the classroom
  • Good visuals of toolbars, with functions of each button explained--to help you to quickly become an efficient user
  • Ideas to help you integrate technology for more effective teaching
• Technology Skills Orientation at Florida Gulf Coast University, in Fort Meyers, Florida
  • Excellent collection of tutorials
  • Select Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access

   

3. Use program Help for Office 2000: when you are using one of these programs, select Help in the menu toolbar, and choose an option:
• In Word--select Office on the Web--it links directly to the Microsoft Office Online help page.  Choose the application from the list of Products on the left, then scroll down and select 2000 assistance.  There are many tips for the user wishing to expand skills.
• In Excel--select Office on the Web
• In Publisher--select Publisher Tutorials
• In PowerPoint--select Office on the Web
• In Access--open the Help Index, type Sample Database in the Keywords box, and find "Sample databases included with Microsoft Access."  The Northwind sample database provides good practice.

 

4. Go to the Technology Connections web site.  Learn along with district ninth graders.