Tutorial websites for MS Office 2000?

[Wendy]

Can anyone suggest some safe websites for MS Office 2000 tutorials? I'd
really like to find some for Publisher, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel (charts in
particular). I'm putting together my first PowerPoint presentation for a
company wide manager's meeting and I'd really like to just knock their socks
off with an awesome presentation. I'd also love to learn Adobe Pagemaker 7.0
as well. Any software tutorial sites are welcome. Thanks to everyone for
any/all suggestions submitted.

 

[JulieD]

Hi Wendy

good introductory level tutorials on word / excel / powerpoint / access and
frontpage 2000 check out
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Mike A]

You may want to make a trip to your library or bookstore. I prefer
books to on-line tutorials myself. A book will be much more in-depth
than a web tutorial, and it won't be full of annoying flashing text,
shoot-the-monkey animations, etc.

Que publishing has some excellent books on Office products in their
Using... series. The 'Special Edition' includes examples and even the
entire book on a CD. I still see the editions for the Office 2000
components even though they are at least 2 software versions old. (I
still use Office 2000 myself!)

As an insurance policy, take a hard copy of your presentation with you
as well. Print it on both paper and acetate transparency sheets.
You'll really 'knock their socks off' when you are the only one who can
make their presentation when the projector and/or computer they provide
presents some technical difficulty.

Good luck with your presentation!


Mike Argy
Custom Office solutions and
Windows/UNIX applications

 

[JulieD]

Hi Wendy

good introductory level tutorials on word / excel / powerpoint / access and
frontpage 2000 check out
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Ken Wright]

Keep the slides focused on the data.message you need to get across, and don't
put too much in any single slide. If you want people to focus on a set of
numbers on a slide then highlight them, or bold them or put a small border round
them to bring them out.

Know your audience - Managers are unlikely to want to see detail charts, but
having them as backup means you are prepared for anything.

Don't splash millions of colours across them as it will look garish and tacky.
Try and choose a common colour theme if possible, and be minimal and consistent.
If you will be making handouts then remember that colour coding doesn't look
good when printed out in black and white.

Avoid using multiple fonts, either on individual sheets or across the
presentation. If you use any special fonts then be sure to save them with the
presentation or be sure they will be on the machine you will load your
presentation onto.

They can certainly enhance it, but don't go overboard on transitions/effects and
then have that become what people are concentrating on as opposed to the message
the slides are supposed to be giving.

If you use humour then remember to keep away from political incorrectness or you
are bound to wind up somebody :-( Humour is good when it is used in the right
places and done well. Do it badly and you will wish you had never gone there.

Try and preview your presentation on a large screen well BEFORE the actual
pitch - get a friend to sit through it quickly and ask for honest comments.

Remember the old saying KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. It really works.

 

[Dick Kusleika]

Wendy

Here's some charting tutorials

http://www.peltiertech.com/