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Exploring Microsoft Office 2007 Volume 1
Robert Grauer
Judy Scheeren, Westmoreland County Community College
Maurie Lockley
Michelle Hulett
Cynthia Krebs, Utah Valley University

ISBN-10: 0131575643
ISBN-13: 9780131575646

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 1196 pp
Published: 01/23/2007
Status: Out of Print

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The goal of the Exploring series has been to move students beyond the point and click and help the student understand why and when they would perform a skill. The system structure considers the following three points.

Students go to college now with a different set of skills than they did 5 years ago. With this in mind, the new edition of Exploring moves students beyond the basics of the software at a faster pace, without sacrificing coverage of the fundamental skills that everybody needs to know. This ensures that students will be engaged from Chapter 1 throughout the book.

Students have diverse career goals. The examples in the text (and the accompanying Instructor Resources) include the health sciences, hospitality, urban planning, business and more so Exploring will be relevant to every student in the course.

Students read, prepare and study differently than they used to. Rather than reading a book cover to cover students want to easily identify what they need to know, and then learn it efficiently. The key features bring students into the content and make the text easy to use.

Students will be more engaged, achieve a higher level understanding in Office, and will successfully complete this course.

Features

The Exploring Instructional System: Textbook, myitlab, and Annotated Instructor Resources

Instructor Resources

· Reference Cards:

o Case Study lecture Demonstration Document :

Lecture demonstration that mimics each chapter project.

o Concept Summary:

Reference card that outlines chapter objectives and common pit falls.

Student Textbook

· Universal Chapter 1

o Enables an instructors to efficiently cover skills common among all applications like “save”, “print”, “bold” etc…

· Beyond the Basics

o More advanced skills are introduced earlier as students are learning basic skills faster.

· White Pages/Yellow Pages

o Clearly distinguish the theory from the skill exercises.

· Objective Mapping

o Allows students to skip the skills they know and quickly identify the skills they don’t know.

· Pull Quotes

o Entice students into the theory/concepts by highlighting the most interesting points.

· Case Study Related

o Are icons that help students identify skills specific to the case study.

· Conceptual Animations

o Literally illustrates how Exploring connects the theory with the skills.

· More Exercises

o Offer the instructor even more options for assessment. We offer 12-15 projects/chapter ranging from MC to open-ended projects. Most competitors have 8-10.

· Rubrics

o Give both the instructors and students a guide to a solution. Each Mini Cases has its own rubric.

· Capstone Production Tests (one in the text and one in the IRCD)

o Allow the instructors to assess all the skills in the chapter with a single project.

myitlab

· Online Assessment and Training

o Seamlessly integrate online assessment and training with the new myitlab for Microsoft Office 2007!

o Project-Driven assessment and outcomes-based training share content between the Exploring text and myITlab.

o No more software installations

New To This Edition

NEW! Exploring Office 2007

System Preview

NOTE: This is a list of NEW! features! with the Exploring Office 2007 System. A complete walk-through will be available in the eCatalog.

The Exploring Instructional System: Textbook, myitlab, and Annotated Instructor Edition Kit

Organized by what instructors have to do: Prepare, Teach, and Assess

PREPARE:

o NEW! Case Study lecture Demonstraton Document - Guides students to critically use their skills in the chapter case so that they can use them later in similar scenarios.

o NEW! Reference Cards — Outline the KEY objectives in the chapter. It is like a PHIT Tip for instructors. It helps instructors anticipate where students get stuck as well as how to get them un-stuck. It helps bridge the gap between the instructor and student when discussing more difficult topics.

TEACH/LEARN:

Student Textbook

· NEW! Universal Chapter 1

o Enables an instructors to efficiently cover skills common among all apllications like “save”, “print”, “bold” etc…

· NEW! Beyond the Basics

o More advanced skills are introduced earlier as students are learning basic skills faster.

· NEW! Objective Mapping

o Allows students to skip the skills they know and quickly identify the skills they don’t know.

· NEW! Pull Quotes

o Entice students into the theory/concepts by highlighting the most interesting points.

· NEW! Conceptual Animations

o Literally illustrates how Exploring connects the theory with the skills.

Assess

· NEW! More Exercises

o offer the instructor even more options for assessment. We offer 12-15 projects/chapter ranging from MC to open-ended projects. Most competitors have 8-10.

· NEW! Rubrics

o give both the instructors and students a guide to a solution. Each Mini Cases has its’own rubric.

· NEW! Capstone Production Tests (one in the text and one in the IRCD)

o allow the instructors to assess all the skills in the chapter with a single project.

· NEW! Exploring! Content 1:1 with myitlab (System approach)

o Same approach, seamless learning experience, no more mapping text to technology

o myitlab Training = Exact same project and scenario as projects A and B

o myitlab Assessment = Two projects, two different scenarios

Table of Contents

PREFACE

OFFICE
Chapter 1 Office Fundamentals

WORD
Chapter 1 Microsoft Word
Chapter 2 Gaining Proficiency
Chapter 3 Enhancing a Document
Chapter 4 Share, Compare, and Document

EXCEL
Chapter 1 Introduction to Excel
Chapter 2 Formulas and Functions
Chapter 3 Charts
Chapter 4 Working with Large Worksheets and Tables

ACCESS
Chapter 1 Introduction to Access
Chapter 2 Relational Databases and Multi-Table Queries
Chapter 3 Customize, Analyze, and Summarize
Chapter 4 Create, Edit, and Perform Calculations in Report

POWERPOINT
Chapter 1 Introduction to PowerPoint
Chapter 2 Presentation Development
Chapter 3 Presentation Design
Chapter 4 PowerPoint Multimedia Tools

WINDOWS XP
Chapter 1 Getting Started with Windows XP
GLOSSARY
MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWER KEYS
INDEX

Courses

Office Applications [EXPLORING SERIES 2007 / 2003] (CIS: Office Applications)

Previous Edition(s)

Exploring Microsoft Office 2007 Brief
Grauer, Hulett, Krebs, Mulbery, Lockley & Scheeren
©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 656 pp | Out of Print
ISBN-10: 0132240041 | ISBN-13: 9780132240048
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Dr. Robert T. Grauer

Dr. Robert T. Grauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at the University of Miami, where he has been honored with the Outstanding Teacher Award in the School of Business. He is the vision behind the Exploring Series, which is about to sell its 3 millionth copy.

Dr. Grauer has written more than 50 books on programming and information systems. His work has been translated into three foreign languages and is used in all aspects of higher education at both national and international levels.

Dr. Grauer also has been a consultant to several major corporations including IBM and American Express. He received his Ph.D. in operations research in 1972 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

Judith Scheeren

Judith Scheeren is a professor of computer technology at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, Pennsylvania where she received the Outstanding Teacher award. She holds an M.S.I.S. She holds an M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh and an advanced certificate in online teaching and learning from the University of California at Hayward. She has several years of experience in the computer industry with Fortune 500 companies. She has developed and written training materials for custom applications in both the public and private sectors. She also has written books on desktop publishing.

Maurie Wigman Lockley

Maurie Wigman Lockley teaches desktop applications and management information systems classes at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has been an instructor there since 1990.

She lives in a tiny piedmont North Carolina town with her husband, daughter, and two preschool-aged grandsons. She spends her free time playing with the boys, reading, camping, playing computer games, and singing. She serves on several not-for-profit boards and is active at her church.

Michelle Hulett

Michelle Hulett received a B.S. degree in CIS from the University of Arkansas and a M.B.A. from Missouri State University. She has worked for various organizations as a programmer, network administrator, computer literacy coordinator, and educator. She currently teaches computer literacy and Web design classes at Missouri State University.

When not teaching or writing, she enjoys flower gardening, traveling (Alaska and Hawaii are favorites), hiking, canoeing, and camping with her husband, John, and dog, Dakota.

Cynthia Krebs

Cynthia Krebs is a professor in the Digital Media Department at Utah Valley State College, where she has taught since 1988. In addition to teaching classes in basic computer proficiency using Microsoft Office, she teaches classes in business presentations, business graphics, and an introduction to multimedia. She has received the Teacher-of-the-Year Award in the School of Business twice during her tenure at UVSC.

She has written chapters for many texts, co-authored a text on advanced word processing, and has presented locally and nationally. A graduate of Utah State University, Cynthia lives in Springville, Utah.

She has four children and one granddaughter. When she isn’t teaching or writing, she enjoys spending time with her children and spoiling her granddaughter.

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Companion Website for Exploring Microsoft Office 2007 Volume 1, 7/E
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©2008 | Prentice Hall | Website | Live
ISBN-10: 0131575767 | ISBN-13: 9780131575769
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Companion Website for Exploring Microsoft Office 2007 Volume 1, 7/E
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