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Office XP: A Professional Approach, Core
0-07-825298-9
© 2002
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Product Description
Office XP: Core from Glencoe's Professional Approach Series provides students with real-world context for learning software applications. Numerous screen shots and displays of toolbar buttons aid instruction. Numerous exercises and applications reinforce every skill taught. Office XP: Core presents exercises in real-life business situations so students get hands-on experience working on actual projects – the best way to prepare them for the on-the-job challenges they’ll face.
A comprehensive instructional package allows instructors to tailor the program to teaching styles, lab needs, student objectives, and student learning styles.
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Features:
- Lesson Summary reviews all the important concepts taught in the lesson, making it an ideal study resource for students.
- On Your Own exercises are entirely free-form. They aren’t “button-pushing exercises,” and don’t “hold the student’s hand” or provide steps. They encourage students to be creative.
- Using the Internet exercises ask students to research topics on the Internet.
- A Task Reference List that students can use for quick reference.
- MOUS Activities and up to 8 specific objectives are shown for every lesson.
- Appendices include a comprehensive, easy-to-read chart of MOUS activities related to lessons, a Windows Tutorial, and helpful information about file management, speech recognition, proofreaders’ marks, and the standard forms for business documents.
- Lessons contain step-by-step exercises, supported by colorful graphics that teach students how to use Office XP: Core skills.
- Case Study includes a description of the fictional business that runs throughout each text. These provide a real-world context for learning a software application.
- Concepts Review at the end of each lesson helps students to text their understanding of important concepts.
- Lesson Applications enables students to assess their mastery of the skills taught in the lesson.
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Table of Contents:
Word 2002
Unit 1: Basic Skills
Lesson 1: Creating a Document
Lesson 2: Selecting and Editing Text
Lesson 3: Formatting Characters
Unit 2: Paragraph Formatting and Editing tools
Lesson 4: Formatting Paragraphs
Lesson 5: Tabs and Tabbed Columns
Lesson 6: Writing and Editing Tools
Unit 3: Page Formatting
Lesson 7: Margins, Templates, and Printing Options
Lesson 8: Page and Section Breaks, Headers, and Footers
Unit 4: Tables and Columns
Lesson 9: Tables
Lesson 10: Columns
Unit 5: Advanced Topics
Lesson 11: Graphics and Charts
Lesson 12: Sharing Your Work
Excel 2002
Unit 1: Introduction to Excel
Lesson 1: Getting Started with Excel
Lesson 2: Developing a New Workbook
Lesson 3: Editing and Formatting Worksheets
Unit 2: Working with Formulas and Functions
Lesson 4: Creating Simple Formulas
Lesson 5: Using Logical and Financial Functions
Lesson 6: Using Advanced Functions
Unit 3: Improving Uses of Worksheet Information
Lesson 7: Building Charts
Lesson 8: Adding Design Elements to a Worksheet
PowerPoint 2002
Unit 1: Basic Skills
Lesson 1: What is PowerPoint
Lesson 2: Basic Presentation Tools
Lesson 3: Creating a Presentation from Scratch
Lesson 4: Outlines, and Hyperlinks
Lesson 5: Working with Text
Unit 3: Customizing a Presentation
Lesson 6: Working with PowerPoint Objects
Lesson 7: Working with Lines, Fills, and Colors
Lesson 8: Manipulating PowerPoint Objects
Access 2002
Unit 1: Understanding Access Basics
Lesson 1: Getting Started with a Database
Lesson 2: Adding and Editing Data
Lesson 3: Finding and Sorting Records
Unit 2: Building a Database
Lesson 4: Adding Tables to a Database
Lesson 5: Adding Forms to a Database
Lesson 6: Adding Reports to a Database
Portfolio Builder
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Ancillaries:
Annotated Instructor Edition w/ CD-ROM - Answers to Concepts Review questions shown in text. Helpful teacher notes on every page guide teachers in class and describe when to use components from the Classroom Resources Package. Contains a CD that includes all Student Template files. The CD also includes Classroom Presentations and a Portfolio Builder (both formally separate booklets). The entire Teacher’s Annotated Edition is also contained on the CD in easy-to-display Acrobat PDF files.
Teacher Classroom Resources – Includes Solutions Manual, Assessment Manual, Projects Manual, and Interactive Lesson Planner.
Solutions Manual – Contains solutions for all exercises in the student text. A CD containing solutions files is included.
Projects Manual – Contains projects for every Unit in the text. Solutions are also shown in the manual. Assessment Checklists in the manual aid teachers in assessing student performance. An included CD contains all files for projects, solutions, and Assessment Checklists.
Assessment Manual – Contains a single, perfect-bound manual with exams for every unit. Each exam includes short answer questions and a hands-on component. Solutions and Assessment Checklists are also included. The manual also includes a full listing of all the questions in the ExamView Pro testbank. The included CD contains the ExamView Pro Software, as well as all the Unit exams, their solutions, and Assessment Checklists.
Interactive Lesson Planner – Easy-to-use electronic Lesson Planner that comes with a built in schedule for teacher convenience. Can easily be customized to fit a teacher’s particular scheduling requirements. The CD also contains all the Classroom Resources in easy-to-display Acrobat PDF files, so teachers can view or print any page of the Classroom Resources.
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