Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003

Set your sights high because Microsoft's new Office 2003 helps you work more efficiently and effectively. More important, Office is a pleasure to work with. Its colorful interface streamlines your work and makes onscreen items easier to locate. Office offers integrated software tools that are powerful yet easy to learn and use. Offices large and small can use Office “based applications for many of their day-to-day computer needs, as can families and home-based businesses who want simple but robust writing and analysis tools for their computers.

If you have used previous versions of Office, Office 2003 takes you to the next step with an improved user interface that helps you be more productive in the way you use the Office products. You'll get your work done better and more quickly. Office automates many computing chores and provides tools that work in unison and share data between them. This hour shows you how Office tackles many of the standard software requirements of today's offices.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

What Office contains
When to use an Office product
How Office supports different environments