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Do you Need Office 2000?
Course Outline

 

1.     Introducing Office 2000 – Seeing is Believing

  • What is new, and why it matters
  • Improved installation and deployment
  • Increased personal productivity
  • Rich data analysis tools
  • Shared features – that work everywhere
  • Improved end-user assistance and training
  • New and improved Office Assistant
  • Office Shortcuts and how to use them effectively
  • Programmability – New Visual Basic for Applications 6.0

2.     Best New Features In Office 2000?

  • Web collaboration
  • Analysis tools
  • Ease of use
  • Universal user interface
  • New Office programs
  • Lower cost of ownership
  • Object oriented application development

3.     Deploying and Installing Office 2000

  • Standalone vs. network installation strategies
  • Local vs. Server – where should the files go?
  • Customising the Setup Table Files (.STF)
  • Install on Demand - why it sometimes doesn’t work
  • Self-repairing - making it work for you
  • Detect and Repair
  • Self-replicating applications

4.     Intranet Solutions - Made Easy

  • Office 2000 on the Internet/Intranet
  • Round-tripping HTML
  • Publishing Web documents
  • Creating dynamic Intranet documents
  • Tips and techniques from the experts

5.     Remote Administration

  • Enabling remote administration
  • Controlling your users the right way
  • Ensuring uniform functionality
  • The well-connected Enterprise
  • Handling problem users
  • Security risks

6.     System Policy Editor

  • How to lock your users out from making changes they shouldn’t
  • The keys to creating a productive environment - stability
  • Deciding what users should and should not be able to do
  • Taking away those features that are to “powerful” for the average user
  • Enforcing policies
  • Restrict users from modifying just about anything

7.     Backwards Compatibility

  • Making Office 2000 work with previous versions of Office
  • Integrating with other Office Suites

8.     Collaboration - Pulling It All Together

  • Office Server Extensions - installing them correctly
  • Web-based collaboration
  • Workgroup Web Folders
  • Discussions
  • Subscriptions
  • Notifications
  • Limitations and pitfalls of Office 2000 collaboration - what Microsoft won’t tell you
  • Building interactive spreadsheets for online viewing and manipulating
  • Communicating in real-time
  • Document conferencing
  • Presentation broadcasting

9.     Where Do You Want To Go Today?

  • Solution Case Studies
  • What works – and what doesn’t
  • Areas of concern
  • Final tips to guarantee success

 

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