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Working with MS Excel & Word

Excel Tutorials:
Davis SD, Utah various handouts, more
Excel: basics, Daily Dose blog & Microsoft;  Function Help, Q & A 
Office XP: from MicroSoft Support or from LearnThat
Microsoft's Template Gallery & other resources; numerous Training modules

Word Tutorials:
Davis SD, Utah various handouts, more
Word: basics, Microsoft 
Tables,  Atomic Learning,
WordTips {pdf slow download} from TechRepublic, WordLessons, MVP's Word Tutorials, more word lessons, Ten Cool Uses of Word in the Classroom
Creating a Watermark: in Word
in Powerpoint: Part 1 Part 2 

 
Excel Workshop Resources:

our workshop files: at e-Desk,
workshop Basics Intro Outline & Excel Help Screen Captures; Intermediate Outline;

College Acceptance Dbase, College Subset, & with graphs; Sales Practice,
Simple spreadsheet {graphic},

On Your Own:
Can you create this data and graphs from this file? 
 Mail Merge Practice file
 

Tutorials:
Intro Lesson, Basic Lesson/functions, alternative: functions etc.
 
 

Work with Pivot Tables
Pivot Demonstration, Pivot Tutorial and a Pivot introduction {PDF format}

Nifty Handouts from Trumbull County Educational Service Center and Word Tips!
 
 
 

MS Word Workshop Resources:

Our Text files for Word 101: 
LoremipsemLong, National Geographic, Dickens text, Room List, Our Workshop Outline

Text files for Word 201:
Tables: Employee Manual,

Forms & Fields Workshop support:
Fields Demo, Fields Practice Text
Forms Text file source, Data Source,
another Electronic Forms lesson;
Mail Merge Practice file

Mike's sample template Fax.dot,


Forms Practice
MVP's five step forms project; another Forms tutorial

Image files: One and two images for Document asgt. 
Free images for schools: at RWLO

Brochure files: template; QuickNewsletter Information {pdf}, template,
Astronomy Brochure {+7MB!)

 

 
Working with PowerPoint {Berea - presentation}

Workshop Resources
At Learning Place
PowerPoint workshop file, second demo file, Tips {PDF}, images tutorials and Storyboard {PDF}
Tips for working with graphics;

Demo files: Jeopardy, another & EdPragmatism Jeopardy
 Powerpoint Tutorials
Microsoft, Utah, Atomic Learning,
PowerPoint For The Classroom and Tutorials for printing

Visit the our Academy Learning Segment or "Current Materials" and move to page 4 for Word, PowerPoint & Excel resources.


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