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What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
OK… this paperclip has had a very busy week. My day job has been pretty stressful lately. To pay the bills, store
I spend my time holding together some very important documents! Recently more and more pages have been added to the document… and basically I am feeling the stress now! I am trying to convince my old friend bulldog to take over… and luckily he said yes! So now I am free to concentrate on The New Paperclip, patient
and tell you all about my favourite tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and terrific help articles on Microsoft Office 2007! Hopefully I will be regularly putting together plenty of content for you all you Office 2007 lovers out there!
… in fact, read the next post for more!
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
OK… this paperclip has had a very busy week. My day job has been pretty stressful lately. To pay the bills, store
I spend my time holding together some very important documents! Recently more and more pages have been added to the document… and basically I am feeling the stress now! I am trying to convince my old friend bulldog to take over… and luckily he said yes! So now I am free to concentrate on The New Paperclip, patient
and tell you all about my favourite tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and terrific help articles on Microsoft Office 2007! Hopefully I will be regularly putting together plenty of content for you all you Office 2007 lovers out there!
… in fact, read the next post for more!
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
OK… this paperclip has had a very busy week. My day job has been pretty stressful lately. To pay the bills, store
I spend my time holding together some very important documents! Recently more and more pages have been added to the document… and basically I am feeling the stress now! I am trying to convince my old friend bulldog to take over… and luckily he said yes! So now I am free to concentrate on The New Paperclip, patient
and tell you all about my favourite tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and terrific help articles on Microsoft Office 2007! Hopefully I will be regularly putting together plenty of content for you all you Office 2007 lovers out there!
… in fact, read the next post for more!
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals
, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
OK… this paperclip has had a very busy week. My day job has been pretty stressful lately. To pay the bills, store
I spend my time holding together some very important documents! Recently more and more pages have been added to the document… and basically I am feeling the stress now! I am trying to convince my old friend bulldog to take over… and luckily he said yes! So now I am free to concentrate on The New Paperclip, patient
and tell you all about my favourite tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and terrific help articles on Microsoft Office 2007! Hopefully I will be regularly putting together plenty of content for you all you Office 2007 lovers out there!
… in fact, read the next post for more!
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System? My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.
You can find the article, sick funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN
’till next time
TNP (The New Paperclip) 🙂
[tags]OneNote 2007, Document Management, Records Management[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
OK… this paperclip has had a very busy week. My day job has been pretty stressful lately. To pay the bills, store
I spend my time holding together some very important documents! Recently more and more pages have been added to the document… and basically I am feeling the stress now! I am trying to convince my old friend bulldog to take over… and luckily he said yes! So now I am free to concentrate on The New Paperclip, patient
and tell you all about my favourite tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and terrific help articles on Microsoft Office 2007! Hopefully I will be regularly putting together plenty of content for you all you Office 2007 lovers out there!
… in fact, read the next post for more!
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System? My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.
You can find the article, sick funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN
’till next time
TNP (The New Paperclip) 🙂
[tags]OneNote 2007, Document Management, Records Management[/tags]
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System? My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.
You can find the article, sick funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN
’till next time
TNP (The New Paperclip) 🙂
[tags]OneNote 2007, Document Management, Records Management[/tags]
Ever wondered why there isn’t a save button in OneNote? Because OneNote automatically saves your work as you go. That is great to know, mind but what if you are working away at your masterpiece, page the best idea you have ever had… and you loose power!!! Have you lost all your work?
Well that depends on where the file is located. OneNote will save the work to automatically at specific intervals, depending on where you saved the OneNote file.
- Local Drive – every 5 seconds
- UNC Share – every 30 seconds
- SharePoint library – every 10 minutes
- HTTP share – every 10 minutes
So the moral of the story is that if you are working on an idea in a very fast paced manner… probably best to work off the local drive. If you like to take your time to think things over, then storing your OneNote files remotely is the way to go.
[tags]OneNote 2007, Recoverability[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
So you have started your favourite Office 2007 program for the first time. And now you are lost. What happened to the file menu? Where is the help menu? What on earth is that circle in the top left corner? Lets quickly run through a Microsoft Office 2007 user interface tutorial so you can get up to speed and productive in no time!
What happened to the file menu?
The old style menu system from Office 2003, mycoplasmosis Office XP, viagra and earlier versions has been replaced with a brand new interface, which most people call the ‘Ribbon’. Why did Microsoft replace the old style menu with the new Ribbon? Because it was getting to difficult to find the right menu options because the menus were too complicated. The Ribbon is designed to make it easier to find the features that you need to use.
The Ribbon is only one third of the new user interface though… there are two other important parts of the screen which we will look at before looking specifically at the Ribbon
The Office Orb (and the Quick Access Toolbar)
The Office Orb = The old file menu. As you can see in the picture, the orb is a circle with the Office logo in it, which is located in the top left hand corner of the application. The Office Orb contains the same style tasks that you would find in the old file menu. For example, if you wanted to create a new document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, in the top left corner of the screen, and then select ‘New’. Likewise if you wanted to save your document in Word 2007, you would click on the Office Orb, and select ‘Save’.
By clicking on the Office Orb (in Word 2007), you get access to the following functionality:
- New
- Open
- Save
- Save As
- Finish
- Send
- Publish
- Close
- Options
- Exit
New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Close and Exit are all the same as previous versions of Office. Finish, Send, and Publish are new to Word 2007, and will be covered in an Office Orb Deep Dive in a later article.
Beside the Office Orb is a number of small icons. This is called the Quick Access Toolbar, and the default (in Word 2007) includes Save, Undo, Redo, and Print. The Quick Access Toolbar saves you from having to look for features that you regularly use. For example, simply click on the floppy disk to save your document. You can add any of your favourite features in Office 2007 to the Quick Access toolbar by right clicking on the feature, and then selecting ‘Add to Quick Access Toolbar’
Zoom and Layout
The zoom and layout options are now located in the bottom right hand corner of the window. This is where you can select the document layout you wish to view. For example, if you want to view in Print Layout, simply click on the Print Layout button in the bottom right hand corner of the window. If you want to change to full screen reading, or web layouts, again click on the buttons in the bottom right hand corner.
I this area there are also two methods to change the zoom, or how big or small everything looks on the screen. One method is to click on the ‘100%’ and then select your zoom level. Alternatively you can use the zoom slider. By dragging the zoom slider to the left, the document will zoom out, making everything look smaller. By dragging the zoom slider to the right, the document will zoom in, making everything look bigger.
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is the major part of the new user interface. It is very different from previous versions, however it is a lot easier to use, and once you are familiar with the Ribbon you are able to find things much quicker than before.
The Ribbon can be broken into two parts… the Ribbon Tabs, which describe a task which you may be trying to complete, and the Ribbon itself, which includes all the buttons and options which you would need to use when trying to complete that task.
For example, say you want to insert something into your document. You click on the ‘Insert’ tab, and then all the things that you can insert into your document appear in the Ribbon. From here you can ‘Insert’ a table, or ‘Insert’ a picture, or ‘Insert’ some clipart.
Another example is if you want to play around with the layout of your page. You click on the ‘Page Layout’ tab, and from there you can select your page margins, how many columns etc.
The best part of the Ribbon is that it is contextual… which means it only shows you the things that you would want to do at the time. For example if you click on a picture in your document, a special ‘Picture’ tab appears in the ribbon and shows you all the different things you can do to the picture. When you are not working on the picture, that tab disappears so it does not clutter the menu and makes it simpler for you to find things!
Later on I will write some deep dive articles which tell you exactly what you can do with each ribbon tab. Until then, I hope this article has given you enough help and guidance to start exploring Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint using the new Office 2007 user interface. If you get stuck along the way, you can get help by clicking on the blue and white question mark on the top right hand corner of the window, or check back here at The New Paperclip for more tips, techniques and tutorials on Microsoft Office 2007
Until next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
Galleries make it easier for you to make formatting changes to your documents, pilule spreadsheets or presentations using Office 2007.
What does a Gallery look like?
Put simply, neurosurgeon galleries show you what your layout, population health formatting or colour options look like. For example the picture on the right (click to see at full size) shows us a gallery in Word 2007 that illustrates what all the different choices are if you want to insert a coverpage into the document. From the gallery I can look at the design and formatting of the page BEFORE clicking on it, and make a decision if I like it or not. The gallery includes many different design layouts which you can choose from. If you feel very artistic you can also great your own designs to choose from.
Galleries appear in many different places throughout all the different applications in Office 2007. In Word 2007, you can use galleries when choosing how headings look (which is called applying ‘styles’), when choosing a coverpage, when selecting the formatting of your header and footer, and even when selecting what watermark you want to appear in the document.
Galleries enable you to pick the layout, or look and feel of your document very quickly, and saves you the hassle of having to undo a change if you do not like it!
Till next time…
TNP 🙂
[tags]Office 2007, Word 2007, Galleries, ribbon, Getting Started[/tags]
OK… this paperclip has had a very busy week. My day job has been pretty stressful lately. To pay the bills, store
I spend my time holding together some very important documents! Recently more and more pages have been added to the document… and basically I am feeling the stress now! I am trying to convince my old friend bulldog to take over… and luckily he said yes! So now I am free to concentrate on The New Paperclip, patient
and tell you all about my favourite tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and terrific help articles on Microsoft Office 2007! Hopefully I will be regularly putting together plenty of content for you all you Office 2007 lovers out there!
… in fact, read the next post for more!
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System? My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.
You can find the article, sick funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN
’till next time
TNP (The New Paperclip) 🙂
[tags]OneNote 2007, Document Management, Records Management[/tags]
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System? My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.
You can find the article, sick funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN
’till next time
TNP (The New Paperclip) 🙂
[tags]OneNote 2007, Document Management, Records Management[/tags]
Ever wondered why there isn’t a save button in OneNote? Because OneNote automatically saves your work as you go. That is great to know, mind but what if you are working away at your masterpiece, page the best idea you have ever had… and you loose power!!! Have you lost all your work?
Well that depends on where the file is located. OneNote will save the work to automatically at specific intervals, depending on where you saved the OneNote file.
- Local Drive – every 5 seconds
- UNC Share – every 30 seconds
- SharePoint library – every 10 minutes
- HTTP share – every 10 minutes
So the moral of the story is that if you are working on an idea in a very fast paced manner… probably best to work off the local drive. If you like to take your time to think things over, then storing your OneNote files remotely is the way to go.
[tags]OneNote 2007, Recoverability[/tags]
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, website hair strap yourself in, view and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, order powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
That’s right… the for the next week… 7 days… 168 hours (that’s 7×24 hours thanks to my old pal Calc!) I will be living and breathing Microsoft OneNote 2007. So sit down, hair strap yourself in, and get ready for some great OneNote reading!
So to kick OneNote 2007 week off… lets have a look at what OneNote is?
Straight from my old friends at Microsoft…
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.
Whoa… there are a lot of powerful words there that this paperclip just doesn’t understand. Basically, OneNote is a great tool which you can use to collect things you want to collect, and then search for them later. Just like a notebook, but electronic, and no paper!
How do I use OneNote? If I am surfing the web, or reading a document, and find a paragraph or something I want to keep for later reference, I just copy and paste it into OneNote. I can copy and paste text, links, emails, pictures, PowerPoint presentations, audio, pretty much anything I like!
So basically, if you want to organise all your note taking, research or brainstorming… OneNote is the way to go!
Next up we will look at the specifics of using OneNote 2007!
Till next time
TNP 🙂
So you are taking notes in a Mathematics lecture, glands
or taking down some dollar figures in a sales meeting… and need to quickly calculate some numbers… what do you do? Just type it into OneNote 2007!
Here is how. Simply type what you want to calculate. For example if I wanted to know what 1453 divided by 3 equals, I would type 1453/3= anywhere on the page. Once you hit enter, somewhere deep inside OneNote a couple of electrons get together over coffee and discuss what the answer is, and then return it to the screen. Very nice feature to keep in mind next time you need to know what something plus something is, or what something minus something is, or what something multiplied by…. ok I think you get the picture 🙂
Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System? My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.
You can find the article, sick funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN
’till next time
TNP (The New Paperclip) 🙂
[tags]OneNote 2007, Document Management, Records Management[/tags]
Ever wondered why there isn’t a save button in OneNote? Because OneNote automatically saves your work as you go. That is great to know, mind but what if you are working away at your masterpiece, page the best idea you have ever had… and you loose power!!! Have you lost all your work?
Well that depends on where the file is located. OneNote will save the work to automatically at specific intervals, depending on where you saved the OneNote file.
- Local Drive – every 5 seconds
- UNC Share – every 30 seconds
- SharePoint library – every 10 minutes
- HTTP share – every 10 minutes
So the moral of the story is that if you are working on an idea in a very fast paced manner… probably best to work off the local drive. If you like to take your time to think things over, then storing your OneNote files remotely is the way to go.
[tags]OneNote 2007, Recoverability[/tags]
Ok… I didn’t mean to scare all you OneNote fans out there. The picture isn’t as bleak as I made it out in my last post about how often OneNote automatically saves your work. Luckily Chris Pratley, decease one of the team at Microsoft responsible for OneNote put me on the straight and narrow!
Keep in mind that with OneNote 2007 you are always working against a local cache. The times you list are the intervals between replication events to those servers (which are long because http servers are slow relative to UNC shares). The saves to the cache however happen every few seconds. So even if the server goes away (because you took your laptop out of range of your wireless or some other problem), caries you never lose any data. And of course you can keep working while not connected to the server and the replication will take place when the server is available again.
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks Chris! So there you have it… saving to the local cache means that your thoughts, notes and ideas are safe and sound!
[tags]OneNote 2007, recoverability[/tags]
Ok, if the power cord of my PC is unplugged suddenly or the electricity goes down
(when not using UPS power supply) then how to restore my extremely valuable notes and
numbers that I was typing just the last few seconds before the power-down? In other words, how to restore
that cache file you mentioned?
Read bellow … (Please email me your feedback to [ subs2718 AT yahoo dot com ]
I did an experiment, I set a timer program I made to manually kill and terminate the onenote
process (my custom program would kill and terminates both
ONENOTEM.EXE and ONENOTE.EXE after ten seconds of launching), it would emulate a computer
crash or a power-down …. Now I did the experiment multiple times, in 50 percent of times, it did NOT save
the info I was typing, I don’t think it was restorable, and if it was, then how to restore it?
Please tell me how, if possible.
In other words, onece you launch my “timer-killer” program, and then start typing in onenote “1,2,3,4,…”
then after a few seconds, the ONENOTEM.EXE and ONENOTE.EXE processes are both killed and the screen
disappear, since I’ve been working in a newly-created sidenote, it is totally missing and I can’t restore it,
except in about thirty percent, the note is not deleted and exist, although missing what I typed in the last few sdecnods.
I used a harddrive monitoring tool that shows me all the read/write events and what
filenames, … and of course timestamps. I did see a file being updated frequently,
which is
C:\Documents and Settings\someuser\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote\12.0\OneNoteOfflineCache.onecache
I tried to rename and open that cache file, it doesn’t open with onenote.
So still the question present itself: How often is my work saved???
It’s very sad, I feel it’s a mistake of THE DEVELOPERS not to give a CLEAR ANSWER …
it should offer an option to do a true-save (not cached-save that is undocumented how to restore it)
EVERY second,
or every 253 milliseconds or whatever…
(well, would that kill my PC or my harddrive?)
or everytime you touch the keyboard or move the mouse, you can’t be too careful
or PARANOID, when it comes to data, ideas, numbers, sketches ….
If some one disagrees, then at least why don’t they make it an option
to enable/disable whenever the user desires.
It won’t be terribly difficult, or cost a lot to offer such an option.
I’m a programmer, I can shoe how easy it is (if they would ever release the sourcecode Ha HA)
If I create a new side note and type and close it, it is probably saved,
but if you minimize the window of the side note, and after a few seconds the PC crashes or…or… or
(which is very possible) then we do not have peace of mind that the last typed info are saved.
I can PROVE IT. I did.
I hope the developers thought about that. At least they should offer automatic save on the
hard drive every ONE second. A checkbox (an option). Just what does it harm to have such an option?
Also whenever the window loses focus, or the user switch to another window, or the user minimizes the window …
etc then it should be immediately saved.
I programmed a sample application that whenever a change happen, it
is immediately saved, with the option to UNDO , 20-level-UNDO is available. And it Never asks you to specify a filename.
I searched many thinking tools (mindmapping, outlining .. such as KeyNote, MindMapper, ConceptDraw,MyInfo 3.50 …etc, …)
unfortunately I have never found anything that is really satesfying, then I programmed my own program,
which needs a lot of improvement).
Again, I can PROVE that not everything you type in OneNote is restorable if the PC crashes or or or …,
We’re takling 50 percent or maybe less is restored.
Correct me if you believe I’m wrong.
Hey there Investigatorr… some nice investigation.
My take on this is that maybe the developers made a trade off between performance and the realities of world that suggest that you don’t need to save everything every second.
And remember, 50% of the time it did save your work after 10 seconds!!! That is so much better than the percentage of recoverable emails I have had after my early beta copies of Outlook crashed.
Mountain out a mole hill?
Was that the time you thought about trying to photocopy your laptop to save the Beta email? 🙂
If you’re so keen on saving your work every 100th millisecond then by all means get a UPS and secure your power cord to the PC. Still not enough get a laptop so you don’t have to worry about the power cord.
Remember, only the Sith live on the extremes!