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1. Protect your computer A computer should always have the most recent updates installed for spam filters, anti-virus and anti-spyware software and a secure firewall.

http://cdn.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/frying-pan-kolbotek-neoflam- 560 475 j If is a Desktop Publishing Suite of Products, what is Desktop Publishing? • Desktop publishing (abbreviated DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout skills on a personal computer. • Desktop publishing software can generate layouts and produce typographic quality text and images comparable to traditional typography and printing. • This technology allows individuals, businesses, and other organizations to self-publish a wide range of printed matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing What do people use Desktop publishing for the most? 1. Writing Letters 2. Greeting Cards & Invitations 3. Calendars 4. Books 5. Signs & Posters & Home Décor

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/designprojects/tp/Top-4-Things-To-Make-With-Desktop-Publishing-Software.htm Writing Letters – When I am sitting down to get something off my chest it helps me to type it out a few times and then probably just delete it. – When writing a resume or a very long document it helps to type and save it as a document before you email it. • Apparently some people still print things out and send them in the mail instead of the faster, more reliable and FREE email.

Greeting Cards & Invitations – Greeting cards may be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of DIY desktop publishing. – Sure, you could send email greeting cards but not everyone uses the (yes, really!). – You could pop over to the store and pick up a ready- made card to cover virtually any occasion. But there's something much more special about a homemade card. – Even if you start with one of the hundreds of predesigned templates the card is still your unique creation once you print it from your own computer. – If you need a highly personalized card that uses your own words and your own images, then desktop publishing is the way to go.

Signs & Posters & Home Décor – Print up decorative signs or banners as party decorations or permanent decor. – Make your own WANTED Poster for a child's room or as a gift for a friend. – Look for poster design software such as an Avery Poster Kit or explore the tiling options of your software or printer that lets you print larger posters on multiple sheets of paper that you tape or glue together. – In addition to posters, use your font collection and bits of clip art and desktop publishing software to create fun, funky, or beautiful labels for drawers and cabinets.

Calendars • you can rely on the calendar on your smartphone or computer or go to the store for any number of decorative or hard-working calendar formats. But a calendar you make yourself is a special way to count the days. And a personalized family calendar is a great project you can share as a gift for all the family or for certain individuals to commemorate a significant birthday or anniversary. Use your own photos or scans of drawings by your kids. Put in family birthdays, weddings, and reunions. • And when you've created a family calendar for one year, it's easy to up date for the following year. Change a few pictures, add new birthdays and you're done.

Books –Admit it, you've always wanted to write a book. Oh the stories you could tell! But is anyone going to want to read it? Will a publisher even give it a second (or first) glance? Maybe not. But that doesn't mean you can't go ahead and write it. –Then publish it using desktop publishing software. Print out a copy for yourself, for your kids and posterity.

Word 2007

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To take the tour of “ribbons” go to: http://tinyurl.com/word2007ribbon Microsoft Word is a full-featured word processing program for Windows and Mac OS X from Microsoft. Available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a that imports the Word format . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word PowerPoint 2007

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Power Point still uses ribbons. The most useful buttons are at the bottom under “views” PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector. A better analogy would be the "foils" (or transparencies/plastic sheets) that are shown with an overhead projector, although they are in decline now. Slides may contain text, graphics, sound, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely. The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint “Death by PowerPoint” Although PowerPoint has the aforementioned benefits, some argue that PowerPoint has negatively affected the society. The terms "death by PowerPoint" and "PowerPoint hell" and "PowerPoint deathmarch" refer to the poor use of the software. Many large companies and branches of the government use PowerPoint as a way to brief employees on important issues that they must make decisions about. Opponents of PowerPoint argue that reducing complex issues to bulleted points is detrimental to the decision making process; in other words, because the amount of information in a presentation must be condensed, viewing a PowerPoint presentation does not give one enough detailed information to make a truly informed decision. http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/powerpointhell.jpg Excel http://www.usarchy.com/wp-content/photos/ExcelInBlack.png Excel • Microsoft Excel is a application developed by Microsoft. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. • Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all , using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations. • It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering and financial needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel Excel It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering and financial needs. • In addition, it can display data as line graphs, histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display. • It has a programming aspect, Visual Basic for Applications, allowing the user to employ a wide variety of numerical methods, for example, for solving differential equations of mathematical physics, and then reporting the results back to the spreadsheet. • It also has a variety of interactive features allowing user interfaces that can completely hide the spreadsheet from the user, so the spreadsheet presents itself as a so- called application, or decision support system (DSS), • Excel application can automatically poll external databases and measuring instruments using an update schedule, analyze the results, make a Word report or PowerPoint slide show, and e- mail these presentations on a regular basis to a list of participants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel Publisher

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Access

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What is Access used for? • The original concept of Access was for end users to be able to "access" data from any source. Other features include: the import and export of data to many formats including Excel, Outlook, ASCII, dBase, Paradox, FoxPro, SQL Server, Oracle,ODBC, etc. It also has the ability to link to data in its existing location and use it for viewing, querying, editing, and reporting. • Access 2010 allows databases to be published to SharePoint 2010 web sites running Access Services. – These web-based forms and reports run in any modern web browser. The resulting web forms and reports, when accessed via a web browser, don't require any add-ins or extensions (e.g. ActiveX, Silverlight).

Online Office Training Resources

• “learn computer and Internet skills needed in today’s online environment.” http://diglitny.org • Loads of quick reference Guides http://www.customguide.com/ • My favorite place to find online training materials. http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ http://www.gcflearnfree.org/skydrive/1 You do not have to use “Microsoft” Office. There are other Desktop Publishing software suites out there. You have options,

http://www.icewalkers.com/images/lib/articles/libreoffice-vs-openoffice.png Online Office Suites • Three features in particular give the cloud an edge: the ability to access files from any internet-connected system, ease of file- sharing, and automated backing up and versioning. • The apps may not be as comfortable to use as Office, nor as feature-packed, but as long as the basics are in place, most users are unlikely to complain - especially if they're getting them for free, as is usually the case for personal use. • The catch is that what you consider an essential feature may not be what the online company cares about. • It's still relatively early days for the cloud. http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/best-online-office-suite-5-reviewed-and-rated-943823 Online “Desktop Publishing” suites available for free online • Google Docs My Favorite docs.google.com • Microsoft Office Web Apps (a free version of Office to anyone with a Live ID) office.microsoft.com • Zoho www.zoho.com Honorable Mentions ThinkFree Online Office: www.thinkfree.com Acrobat.com : www.acrobat.com Live Documents : www.live-documents.com

Google Docs (docs.google.com) • When it first launched, it was incredibly primitive. Now it looks and feels far more like Microsoft Office, from the virtual sheet-of-paper view used by its word processor to the availability of many more fonts.. • Docs focuses on the basics that everyone needs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and simple vector-based drawing, along with online storage space for additional files and decent file conversion from Office's formats. • Its simplicity can be a downside, but for the most part it's a blessing, stripping out all the features you never use. • There are a few omissions, the biggest being offline editing you have to hope your connection doesn't drop. • Google Docs is a clear winner on sharing and collaboration. • Google adds features on a regular basis, but don't hold your breath for specific improvements. Development on Docs feels slow - too slow, given the amount still to do.

Microsoft Office Web Apps office.microsoft.com • (a free version of Office to anyone with a Live ID) • For Microsoft, offering a free version of Office to anyone with a Live ID account is more than a bit of a gamble. • It's not too surprising that the Office Web Apps built into Skydrive aren't exactly direct competitors to their offline counterparts.

Microsoft Office Web Apps office.microsoft.com • Excel WebApp, for instance, lets you put together basic spreadsheets and graphs just like the regular version, but a quick glance at the toolbar compared to the full applications' Ribbon makes it clear just how little you can do in comparison, For very simple spreadsheets though, it's fine. • Word however is a genuinely horrible editor to work with, forcing you to type into a full-width text box. You can switch to a more traditional view for reading files and see how your document will look when printed out, but only via a read-only preview called 'Reading Mode'. This is truly dire. • We like OneNote a lot, and this version - while cut down - is good enough to save most people the cost of the full product.

Zoho www.zoho.com • For sheer features, Zoho is the king of online office suites. With text documents, accounting, spreadsheets, presentations, mail, calendars, notebooks, , discussion groups, invoicing and more, Zoho offers a jaw- dropping number of features. • They're geared towards business use though, with the idea being that you pay for additional users and features in specific apps. • All the apps run from the Mail screen, whether you use it or not. You can sign in with a Google or Facebook account, or create a new one. • The tools are powerful, but could do with more consistency and a good pumice stone to scrape away some of the rough edges. • If you want all of your business and editing tools in one place, this is where you'll find them waiting for you.

Zoho applications classified into 2 groups according to their characteristics: OFFICE SUITE and UTILITIES • Zoho Writer: Word Processing. • Zoho Sheet: Worksheet. • Zoho Show: Slide Editor. • Zoho Wiki: Editor of wikis. • Zoho Notebook: Multipurpose Application. • Zoho Meeting: Web conferencing application. • Zoho Projects: Project Manager. • Zoho CRM: Implementation of administration and management. • Zoho Creator: Application that allows the creation of mini-web applications (using the Deluge language, explains the same site) and mashups. • Zoho Planner: Personal Organizer. • Zoho Chat: Chat Application. • Zoho Mail: Groupware that includes an email client, an application file synchronization, calendar, and more. • UTILITIES: Collect specific use applications, which are: • Zoho Polls: Application that allows the creation and control surveys and inclusion in Bloggers has UNLIMITED storage. • Site 24 × 7: Application that allows control and monitoring of Web sites. Generates reports that are sent to user mail (if it allows) every 3 days. It is free for up to 2 WEB sites. Thank you for your Participation