LSN Developing the workforce - ITQ IT Skills resources contextualised for Teachers, Student Services & LRC Staff

Office Tutorials 2

This series of guides cover a wide range of techniques in the effective use of Microsoft Access, PowerPoint and Excel. Each presentation contains information, links to examples and fully narrated video tutorials.

Here you will find a listing of all these tutorials on one page but if you are just interested in a particular Application use the following links:

Office Tutorials 2 | Access | Excel | PowerPoint | Word

Content packaging tutorialsOffice Tutorials 2

Click the screenshot or title here to view all these tutorials as a Reload content package which provides both sequential and individual navigation. Alternatively use the links and summaries below to choose which individual tutorials to view.


Using Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel
This is a tutorial about how to use simple conditional formatting, as well as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with some advanced examples.

View   Download (3,126 KB) - zip archive


Protecting Worksheets and Changing Display Options in Microsoft Excel
A tutorial covering how to protect worksheets and modify their display settings.

View   Download (5,097 KB) - zip archive


Using Multimedia in Microsoft PowerPoint
The aim of any PowerPoint presentation is to get a particular message across. This can be greatly enhanced by careful use of multimedia resources in the presentation.

View   Download (22,492 KB) - zip archive


Working with Charts and Diagrams in Microsoft PowerPoint
As well as being able to insert charts and diagrams from other programs, such as Microsoft Excel, via copy and paste, Microsoft PowerPoint has inbuilt Chart and Diagram facilities.

View   Download (6,119 KB) - zip archive


Creating Simple Quizzes in Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint provides an easy way of creating simple quizzes. The following link has a short tutorial video illustrating how this can be done.

View   Download (5,748 KB) - zip archive


Creating Interactive Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint
As well as being able to incorporate multimedia elements such as sound, graphics, animation, photos, and movies into your PowerPoint presentations, you can also transform them into interactive tools.

View   Download (26,568 KB) - zip archive


Creating Macros and Quizzes in Microsoft Excel
This tutorial will take you through the basic steps needed to get started with macros. Including creating a quiz and recording a macro.

View   Download (17,401 KB) - zip archive


Create Tables in Access
For our example, we will be setting up a database for the following scenario. A local college runs a Foundation Degree in Computing and the Programme Leader needs to record personal details of each student and eventually, produce lists of students grouped by the courses that they are enrolled on.

View   Download (8,680 KB) - zip archive


Create Macros in Access
A Macro is a set of actions that you can create to help you to automate common tasks.

View   Download (13,051 KB) - zip archive


Create Forms in Access
Create a new Form with Access’s Wizard and then modify the design of the form.

View   Download (5,995 KB) - zip archive


Create Relationships in Access
In this tutorial, a further table has been added to the database – Courses. This contains course information (title, dates, costs, etc.) that we want to eventually see output on forms and reports.

View   Download (7,414 KB) - zip archive


Create Queries in Access
View both the tables at the same time and check that the one-to-many relationship does indeed work.

View   Download (7,963 KB) - zip archive


Create Reports in Access
Printed reports are still necessary in today’s electronic world and Access offers the user simple yet powerful reporting capabilities.

View   Download (7,387 KB) - zip archive


Create workspace files in Excel
A workspace file is a file that saves display information about open workbooks, so that you can later resume work with the same window sizes, print areas, screen magnification, and display settings.

View   Download (7,801 KB) - zip archive


Formatting Excel worksheets with VBA

A tutorial covering accessing the Control Toolbox, adding a Command Button to a worksheet, adding code to the Command Button and navigating between worksheet and code .

View   Download (19.342 KB) - zip archive


Collaboration in Word

A guide to using the reviewing toolbar options in Microsoft Word.

View   Download (61,867 KB) - zip archive


Drag and Drop in Word

An introduction to creating a basic drag and drop interaction in Word

View   Download (50,045 KB) - zip archive


Forms in Word

A tutorial covering the use of the Control Toolbox to create forms in Word.

View   Download (33,061 KB) - zip archive


Security

A tutorial covering the various security settings which can be enabled and configured in Microsoft Word.

View   Download (35.736 KB) - zip archive


 

Visit www.learningtechnologies.ac.uk for other resources and details of training events.