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INFO-6085-32-22S MONDAY August 8 S22

Peter Sigurdson

Final Exam will be via FOL ONLINE Exam tool:

Available from MONDAY August 15 to Friday August 19

Course Review:

Discuss what a Document?

How do we use and Manage Documents at work?

MS Office is a Document Management System:

Focus of study:

Become practiced in using ALL the features of the MS Office.

Our specific focus: Be able to work in the Support Role: Deskside Support, Help Desk Analyst.

MS OUTLOOK was the original Killer App that got businesses to buy into using computers in the 1980s.

Our focus is MS OFFICE: the collection of software packages to do:

Word Processing

Spreadsheet: Excel

Presentation: PowerPoint

Collaboration/Communication: OUTLOOK

The Enterprise means The Company.

Office seeks to provide for all the Information Needs of The Enterprise.

3 kinds of Enterprise Collaboration Servers:

Simple Email Server: pop3, smtp, calendar, to do list

MS Exchange: MS exchange:

provides more collaboration tools than simple email server: For example, video messages, secure video messaging, video conferencing.

creates the same “in touch”, real time contact that people would have when they sit in the same office together.

Sharepoint Server:

gives us collaborative work flows for Documents:

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

We started by considering what a Document is.

A fusion of many different kinds of information formats.

(Potential Final Exam Question)

What are the Qualities that Business Software applications and Documents should have:

Embeddability

LINKABILITY

Shareability: In the MS Office World: this is what we get from the SharePoint Server and other collaboration technologies

Categorization

Turn information into INSIGHT: Creating information cartographies and topologies (e.g. MindManager, PowerBI)

Collaboration: e.g. Trello

Searchability

New tools:

Coda.io⁠

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Files and the File System

TCP IP and Protocols: Email

Working with Information

Changing information formatting

Let’s start by assessing the Document Metaphor for each MS OFFICE Tool:

Let’s start by acquring some real estate data.

Then we will practice what we have learned to do an analysis and presentation.

Any data you can view in a Table format into HTML: → you can copy/paste into EXCEL

Paste without formati

Word

Excel

PowerBI

PowerPoint

Outlook

Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.

Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (

CtrlP

) instead.