How to Use MS Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000 is a five-in-one software program that gives professionalism and style to your documents and files. It includes Microsoft word processing, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Access, a database program and FrontPage, which allows you to make Web pages for the Internet. For business or personal use, Microsoft Office 2000 offers many tools for getting computer documents created and completed. Create professional documents, presentations, charts, graphs, spreadsheets and websites. As a standard in business, school and everyday use, Microsoft Office 2000 is a set of software that is helpful to know how to use.

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  Open Microsoft Word. Click through the menus at the top of the screen and get to know what Word has to offer. "File" allows you to save, print, open new documents and view a printable version of your text. "Edit" allows you to cut, copy and paste files and text in the document. "View" allows you to view you document in different ways and access toolbars. "Insert" allows you to insert text, pictures and files. "Format" allows you to change the format, style, spacing and layout of you document. "Tools" gives you spell checking, references and searches. "Tables" allows you to create a table. "Windows" and "Help" are for troubleshooting. Click the mouse in the white space of the document and start typing.

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  Open Microsoft PowerPoint. Click on "Design Template." Choose which template you want your slides to take on. Click on "OK." Type text into the text boxes provided, or right-click in the box and search for files or pictures to add to the slides. Cut, copy, paste and edit just as you did in Microsoft Word. Right-click in the clipboard to the left and "Create New Slide." Create as many slides as you want by filling in the information and editing the slides. Click on the "Slide Show" tab and then on "View Slide Show." Watch the slide show you created.

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  Open Microsoft Excel. Create a spreadsheet with a variable for the rows and another variable for the columns (for example: weight in the rows and height in the columns). Click into the boxes and enter the numbers that correspond with your sample. Enter all the information into the boxes. Click in the upper-left-most box with a number in it and drag down to the lower-right-most box to highlight all of your data. Right-click and click on "Create Graph." Choose the graph style you want. Enter in the names of the variables (i.e. height and weight) so they clearly mark what they correspond to. Create the graph, and it will appear in the main body of the spreadsheet.

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  Open Microsoft Access. Click on "Access Database Wizards, Pages and Projects." Choose a template that sounds like one you want to work on. Save your project before you work on it. The wizard will help guide you through making a table, but once you start entering information into your new database, you will be prompted to create a table with information you've entered. Scroll through your tables using the arrow left and arrow right buttons at the bottom of the table screen. Create queries, forms and sub-forms using the wizard for a guide.

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  Open Microsoft FrontPage. Click on "File," then on "New," and then "Web." Select the type of page you want to create and double-click on it. View your Web page in different forms: "Folders View," "Navigation View," "Reports View." Choose the one that you prefer. Select "Page Properties" from the menu bar and change everything from the location of the website, backgrounds, margins, custom properties and languages. Choose "Text," "Hyperlink," "Bookmark" or "Tables" to create these in your Web page. Add graphics and pictures as well.