Microsoft Office 2010 - Windows
Training and support resources
Online, printable documentation
Online self-paced training
Instructor-led classroom based training
We are planning to introduce the latest version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Outlook) over the course of the next academic session. Although the broad functionality is similar in each of these applications to our current version (Office XP), there is a new look, which might feel strange to start with. Experience at other universities suggests that this is readily overcome through training.
There is a separate page linked on the right for each application we provide in College. Each page has links to guides showing you how to make the change from our current version to the new version. There are also short online courses which you can work your way through in about half an hour.
The Ribbon
The most significant change from Office 2003/XP is the way you select commands. This has been completely reorganised into a 'Ribbon'. This short video shows you how one Microsoft employee experienced it at first. There are also interactive guides for each application showing it as you're used to it in 2003/XP: when you click on a menu or toolbar item, it shows you how to access it in the 2010 version.
If you would like a comprehensive guide listing the old menu commands and showing where in the 2010 application those commands are located, there are downloadable two-columned tables showing the commands side-by-side for each application. These are in Excel format so you need to have Excel installed to open them.
If you would like more information about why this change has been made (it started with Office 2007 which we are skipping over to 2010), the person responsible at Microsoft explains in this six minute video. He discusses Tabs which "makes things easier to find" and the Gallery with Live Preview which "makes things easier to use" (you can see how your work would look in a range of pre-determined formats before you apply them).
There is a page which pulls all of the guides to the Ribbon together in one place.
Certification
We will be introducing the opportunity to get your Microsoft Office IT skills certified through the Microsoft IT Academy programme. This will be launched during the next academic session.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the Help Desk helpdesk@gold.ac.uk