Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete, easy-to-use suite of productivity and information management software that helps you save time and stay organized.
3. What is Office Professional? Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete, easy-to-use suite of productivity and information management software that helps you save time and stay organized
4. What’s Included with Office Pro 2007 Office Professional 2007 is the new release of familiar Microsoft productivity and information-management software. The Office Professional suite includes: Microsoft Office Access for database creation and reporting Microsoft Office Excel® for spreadsheet creation and analysis Microsoft Office Word for document creation Microsoft Office PowerPoint® for presentation creation Microsoft Office Publisher for creation of marketing materials and campaigns Microsoft Office Outlook® with Business Contact Managerfor contact and customer management
5. New User Interface Why Microsoft redesigned the user interface Menu and toolbars were burdened with too many commands Users had difficulty finding and using productivity-enhancing features Results-oriented design goals Make the software easier to use Help people save time Make it easier to discover more of the functionality people need in Microsoft Office Support the creation of great-looking, more effective documents
17. Users achieve what they want instead of wasting time figuring out how to use the program
18. Users more easily discover new features and spend less time searching for commands
19. Users have increased confidence and proficiency using Microsoft Office programs; helpdesk calls are reducedInnovations Benefits
20. Ribbon replaces menus and toolbars Command tabs organized by activity Key Components of New User Interface Clean, uncluttered workspace
21. Contextual tabs present specialized features when needed Key Components of New User Interface (Cont’d)
22. Gallery presents user with a selection of desired outcomes Key Components of New User Interface (Cont’d)
23. Key Benefits Save time and stay organized New user interface makes it easier and faster to find and use the software features you need to complete tasks Manage contact and customer information in one place Simplify lead and customer management with easy-to-use capabilities within the familiar Outlook environment Produce designer-quality marketing materials and campaigns in-house Create professional-quality materials, and manage marketing activities in-house Simplify information analysis and reporting Easily create databases and reports, and analyze critical business information
24. Key Improvements Innovations in Office Professional 2007 programs Excel. New conditional formatting, new charting, easier-to-use PivotTable® capabilities, and more Word. New Building Blocks to streamline content reuse, more professional formatting, and more Access. New redesigned menus and commands, new tracking application templates, simplified report design, and more Outlook with Business Contact Manager. Improved task management, task and calendar integration, improved e-mail search and filter, and more. New marketing campaigns, project management, customization, reports, accounting integration, and more PowerPoint. New intelligent diagramming, new graphics, streamlined slide reuse, and more Publisher. New business identity capability, professionally designed templates, improved content reuse, and more
25. Excel 2007 Create more professional reports, and analyze and visualize information New! User interface improves professional formatting New! Redesigned charting engine for more professional graphs New! Conditional formatting data-visualization tools Improved! PivotTable and PivotChart® tools
26. Word 2007 Create and share more professional-looking documents New!Building Blocks streamline content reuse New!High-impact graphics are easier to use New!Quick Styles and Document Themes forfaster formatting New!Convert your Word documents to XPS
27. Access 2007 Track, analyze, and report business data more easily and effectively New! Choose from a library of prebuilt database templates New! Paste your data from Excel, or import contacts from Outlook New! Collect information from others via e-mail with data collection forms New! One-click creation of reports and interactive design editing New! Dramatically improved grouping and filtering
28. Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Work more effectively with new tools to manage e-mail, tasks, and calendar New! Instant Search across all Outlook information New! To-Do Bar: single view of tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail New! Task integration with the calendar New! Improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing technology
29. Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (Cont’d) Manage customer and prospect information in one place New!Contact tracking and data-synchronization tools New!Marketing campaign management and tracking tools New!Project information and task management tools New!Report and information customization and filtering tools
30. PowerPoint 2007 Create and share more dynamic business presentations New! PowerPoint slide libraries New! Save your own custom slide layouts New! Improved text, table, graphics, and shape formatting New!Convert your presentations to XPS
31. Publisher 2007 Develop professional marketing communications in-house New!Improved library of professionally designed templates New!Apply elements from your brand identity to all Publisher templates New!Create personalized e-mail marketing with improved mail merge New!Publish as XPS for improved sharing and commercial printing
32. Ten Benefits of Office Professional 2007 Find and use the features you need with ease Locate, manage, prioritize, and act on an increasing volume of e-mail Manage time and tasks more efficiently Manage all customer and prospect information in one place Manage sales leads and opportunities more efficiently and effectively Create, publish, and manage designer-quality publications in-house Manage all your marketing efforts more effectively Create professional-looking documents and presentations in less time Analyze your information to make better decisions Simplify database creation and reporting
34. Roadblocks to achieving benefits How will my company get up to speed on all of the new features of Microsoft Office 2007 so we can see the benefits? How can I get my company comfortable with the new look and feel of Microsoft Office 2007? Microsoft Office 2007 will be difficult for my staff to deploy and maintain.
38. How to Promote Training to Your Workforce Get Executive Backing Make it easy Use email
39. How to Promote Training to Your Workforce (cont..) Publish an eNewsletter Conduct Seminars and Lunch and Learns Take advantage of free opportunities
44. Microsoft Office 2007 Training Clinic 3370/3374: First Look: Getting Started with Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Server (1 day) Clinic 3369/3373: First Look: Getting Started with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (1 day) Clinic 3199/3372: First Look: Getting Started with the 2007 Microsoft Office System (1 day) Clinic 3041: First Look: Deploying Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 Client Applications (3 hours) Course 5058: Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus (2 days ) Course 5060: Implementing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (2 days ) Course 5061: Implementing Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Server (3 days )
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Welcome to Microsoft® Office Professional 2007, the suite of Microsoft Office system products designed with business professionals in mind. Office Professional 2007 helps business professionals like you save time and stay organized with powerful and easy-to-use tools for managing customer information and marketing activities, analyzing and reporting business information, and producing professional-quality communications.Reduce the time you spend on routine tasksManage all your contact and customer information in one place Produce professional marketing materials and campaigns in-houseSimplify information analysis and reporting
Purpose of this slide: To focus attention on the key elements of the new UI and reinforce the key benefits.Talking Points:The key elements that illustrate the Results oriented design are the way features are organized around the task that people do in the applications and the use of Galleries to present a selection of results that users an simply click on. The key benefit here is that a user can spend more of their time focused on their work rather than wasting time trying to figure out how to get the application to do what they want it to do.By replacing the menus and toolbars with the RIBBON, using TABS to organize commands based on the activities specific to the application and using CONTEXTUAL TABS to bring forward specialized functionality when needed we make it easier for users to find and discover productivity-enhancing features.By introducing GALLERIES that reduce the needed to figure out how to ‘operate’ complicated dialog boxes, introducing LIVE PREVIEW that reduces the need to make and undo formatting changes over and over and introducing enhanced ScreenTips that do a much better job of explaining what features do we enable users to use the applications with greater confidence and proficiency while reducing application level support calls to the help desk.Now lets take a look at the new UI. Next SlideIdeally you would demo the new UI at this point, the following slides are provided if that is not possible.
Despite what you might hear, the process is trickier than you might hope
A Microsoftee will tell you that deploying Office 2007 is as simple as adding it to a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file. Theoretically, we don’t disagree, but practically, no way, no how. You’ll need additional tools for this job, and the best places to look are Microsoft’s BDD (Business Desktop Deployment) 2007 kit and the Office 2007 Resource Kit (see also the Test Center Analysis "Microsoft tools ease Vista deployment").A key tool in BDD for Office migrators is the OMPM (Office Migration Planning Manager), which allows admins to scan larger environments to find out what Office apps are running, what versions they are, and what file types and exist. This will let you know who can receive an Office 2007 upgrade, what that upgrade will entail, and whether or not you need to migrate any of the data.Actually deploying Office 2007 is done using the same BDD tools as those used to deploy Vista, since the basic process is simply to make Office 2007 part of the base Vista WIM file installation.Getting Office 2007 into a WIM file begins with installing all the files from your Office DVD to a network directory.Now you launch the Office Customization Tool by running setup off the command line. A series of broad customization options will pop up in a pane, from which you can drill down to more detailed options. When you’re done making your customizations, you can save the whole thing as an add-on file, which Setup will look for when it’s run off this network installation point.You’ll install this customized version when you’re creating a Vista master installation — before snapping a disk image. Test your Vista customizations first, then run your Office installation. Now test your Office customizations the same way. If everything shakes out, simply snap a WIM image and you’re ready to deploy.That covers raw installations, but not upgrading. Microsoft, however, recommends such ground-up installations — as do we after attempting an “upgrade” installation of Vista. Blowing away everything on each machine and beginning from the ground up results in a faster, more stable install.Fortunately, Microsoft’s USMT (User State Migration Toolkit) eases upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007 this way. But using USMT doesn’t excuse you from a significant planning phase — Office 2007 introduces a new file format that’s incompatible with Office 2003 and Office 2000. For companies rolling out Office 2007 in bits and pieces (i.e., department by department), this can create real problems for people working on the same document.You can handle this only two ways: First, simply educate your Office 2007 users to always select the Office 2003 file format option when saving. Easy, but that human-error factor has buried so many of us on IT boot hill. Alternatively, you can install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack on PCs still running Office 2003. This allows those PCs to take files in the Office 2007 format, convert them to 2003 and then work with them. Of course, they’ll stay in the older format after that, so if Office 2007 users pick them up again, there might be a bit of initial confusion.Overall, Microsoft has done a decent job anticipating users’ Office 2007 deployment needs and providing tools to manage them. Deploying as part of a WIM image is definitely a plus; however, we couldn’t edit the customization settings on an existing Office 2007 WIM installation the way we could with Vista. (At least, we couldn’t find an easy way to do it.) Best simply to make a WIM image for largely different Office installations.
You probably wish you didn’t have to spend any of your training budget on marketing. Wouldn’t you rather focus your resources on developingtop-quality learning? The reality is that if you don’t have marketing, you don’t get heard at all.Kevin Costner thought that if you built it, they would come, but this is only true in the corn fields of Iowa. Building great training is usuallyonly half the battle; the other half is getting your workforce to take advantage of it. Unfortunately, like most people, your workforce is sobombarded by marketing messages that unless those messages are carefully planned and executed, they won’t even hear them. Marketing must be an essential part of any successful training program.
1. Get executive backing.This may not sound like marketing, but it’s the best possible way to “sell” your classes. Getting executive buy-in means that you convince your company’s leaders to endorse your program, actively promote it … and possibly even require it. Rather than send an email asking them to register, why don’t you have your CEO or another top-level executive email a meeting planner inviting everyone to attend the class. Most sane employees will jump to respond to this … and attend the training as well. We all know how important executive buy-in is, but it’s critical to place this at the very top of your list. This step might take lots of work and follow-up, but it’s worth it.2. Make it easy.A widely known truth in marketing (and sales) is that when you make it easier for your customers to buy, your sales will increase. It’s that simple. It can be very frustrating for consumers to deal with organizations that make it more difficult than it should be to take advantage of their products or services. Have you ever tried to buy something over the web and just gave up because you were confused by the process or had to go through countless screens to complete the order? If the vendor took a moment to step into your shoes, they would see why they’re loosing sales. The problem is that the vendor is thinking from their perspective, not the perspective of their customers. Step out of your shoes for a moment and into your customers’ ways of thinking. This can sometimes be pretty challenging, but you’ll quickly see where you can make improvements that your customers will notice.3. Use email.Nobody likes spam. There’s no question, however that email can generate the biggest bang for the buck. But, there are a few important things to consider:a. Every email needs to add value: You have to make it clear “What’s in it for them” and provide information that will be perceived as valuable. Otherwise, they’ll call it spam. eNewsletters work well for this.b. Send the right message to the right person: Although it’s tempting to send mass emails to everyone in your company, it’s more important that you target the right message to the right person. If you’re offering IT training, send it only to the IT department. However, don’t get too bogged down in breaking up your database into too many groups. This can make emailing so time consuming that you might never send out enough emails to make it worth the time you spent.c. Make it easy to opt-out: In each email, give them an easy way to opt-out. If you do this, it nearly always satisfies those people who might have otherwise complained about your email.d. Plan at least six months in advance: Put together a simple schedule that contains the content of each email, when they will be emailed, and to whom. This will increase the chance that your emails will actually be done and that they will be sent on a consistent basis.
4. Publish an eNewsletter.It’s an email, but it’s not as easy to produce as an email. eNewsletters are usually very effective and are generally perceived as valuable communications by most people. The problem is that they take a lot of time to produce and are hard to sustain over time. Here are some tricks to help guarantee your first eNewsletter won’t be your last.a. Don’t be overly ambitious: The eNewsletter highway is paved with eNewsletters that were produced once and never heard from again. Start with a quarterly newsletter, which is fairly realistic. If it works well, you can always increase your frequency to every other month.b. Get help from your training suppliers: Training suppliers have a vested interest in making you successful. The good suppliers have the tools, articles, and expertise to help produce and distribute your eNewsletter.c. Write it yourself: Newsletters are not difficult if you’re doing it yourself. Getting others to write articles and deliver them on time can be like pulling teeth. If you can’t manage the eNewsletter yourself, make sure that the person in charge has a vested interest in its success and is willing to commit the time it takes.5. Conduct seminars … and webinars:As a training person, using seminars as a marketing tool is a natural extension of your expertise. The added benefit of an event like a seminar is that it’s an opportunity to showcase what you do, which gives your customer tangible proof that you offer a good service. But remember, you must add value. The success of a seminar is determined mostly by how interesting the topic looks to your customer. Self-serving topics make for very small attendance.6. Take advantage of all “free” opportunities.There are lots of unique communications channels in your company that will help get your message out. Each company is different, but most have bulletin boards, intranets, newsletters, company events, vendor fairs, etc. Sometimes, you just have to ask to be included to get some valuable free exposure.The good news is that effective marketing can pay off big-time for your training programs. The bad news is that it can be challenging and time consuming. However, if you stick to proven techniques and plan things out well in advance, you can get a return that will elevate your training program to the next level.