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Microsoft Office 97

All of the courses in this curriculum are 90 Minute Workouts®. Click a course title below for more information. (Note: Office 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007 courses are also available.)

Drawing, Clip Art, & Word Art
Charting in Word & PowerPoint
Integrating Word, Excel, & PowerPoint
Organization Charts
Microsoft Maps
 
Note: These courses focus on features common to the three primary Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and on integrating these applications. For courses specific to each application, see our Word, Excel, and PowerPoint curricula.
 

Office 97 Drawing, Clip Art, & WordArt

Objective:
Learn to enhance Office 97 files using drawing objects, clip art, and WordArt.

Prerequisite Skills:

Course Description:
Do you want to enhance your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations? Do you want to add various shapes to your documents? Do you want to customize the standard clip art? Do you want to add special effects to your text?

Attend this course if you want to:

  • Draw lines, boxes, arrows and various other shapes.
  • Resize or reshape your drawings.
  • Easily duplicate a drawing (e.g., a series of arrows).
  • Create shadow and 3-D effects.
  • Add text to drawings.
  • Add clip art images to your documents.
  • Download clip art from Microsoft's Web site.
  • Resize, recolor, and rotate clip art objects.
  • Enhance your text with WordArt.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

  • On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

  • Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

  • Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)


Office 97 Charting in Word & PowerPoint

Objective:
Learn to create and modify charts in Word and PowerPoint using Microsoft Graph.

Prerequisite Skills:

Course Description:
Do you want to add a chart to your Word document or PowerPoint presentation (without having to do it in Excel)? Do you want to make your documents and presentations look more professional?

Attend this course if you want to:

  • Communicate your ideas via a chart.
  • Select from several chart types.
  • Understand charting terminology.
  • Enter data and make changes to the data.
  • Format your chart.
  • Add or modify a legend.
  • Add or hide gridlines.
  • Create your own chart templates.
  • Create charts from a Word table.
  • Import data or charts from Excel.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

  • On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

  • Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

  • Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)


Office 97 Integrating Word, Excel, & PowerPoint

Objective:
Learn to maximize Office 97's capabilities by embedding, linking, and hyperlinking files in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Prerequisite Skills:

Course Description:
Do you ever want to insert an Excel chart into a Word document or PowerPoint presentation? Do you want the chart to automatically update when changes are made to the Excel data? Have you ever wanted to put a graphic created in PowerPoint into your Word document?

Attend this course if you want to:

  • Embed a Word table or Excel chart in a PowerPoint presentation.
  • Embed clip art or other objects into your Word documents.
  • Make changes to the original document.
  • Create a link from one application to another.
  • Import a Word outline to a PowerPoint presentation.
  • Import a PowerPoint presentation to a Word document.
  • Create hyperlinks to other files or to the Web.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

  • On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

  • Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

  • Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)


Office 97 Organization Charts

Objective:
Create organization charts to represent the structure of a division, department, group, or project.

Prerequisite Skills:

Course Description:
Do you need to create professional-looking organization charts? Do you want to be able to easily add, delete, and move boxes around?

Attend this course if you want to:

  • Create an organization chart in Word 97, Excel 97, or PowerPoint 97.
  • Add boxes and text to the chart.
  • Format the boxes and text with color, shading, borders, shadows, fonts.
  • Enhance the connecting lines.
  • Select from several chart styles.
  • Draw customized boxes and lines.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

  • On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

  • Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

  • Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)


Office 97 Microsoft Maps

Objective:
Learn to visually present your spreadsheet data on a geographic map.

Prerequisite Skills:

  • Comfortable with the Windows environment.

  • Comfortable with the basic Excel capabilities.
    (Suggested Course: Excel 97 Overview)

Course Description:
Do you want to visually present your spreadsheet data on a graphic map? 

Attend this course if you want to:

  • Use Microsoft Map's predefined maps.
  • Prepare data for a map.
  • Create a new map.
  • Zoom in or out on a map.
  • Move a map from one location to another.
  • Change the way data in a map is formatted.
  • Add map labels and text.
  • Add, format, and remove data from a map.
  • Create custom pin maps to identify points of interest on the map.
  • Modify the legend.
  • Add and remove map features.
  • Refresh the map to reflect new data.
  • Create and use map templates.
  • Convert map to a picture.
  • Create maps in Word or PowerPoint.
  • Delete maps.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

  • On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

  • Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

  • Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)