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Microsoft Office 2000: Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Office Standard 2007 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook in addition to Office Tools that manage language settings and pictures and include a diagnostics tool for use in the event of a crash. Households that don't need desktop e-mail should opt for Office Home & Student at $149 (no upgrade option), a new suite roughly equivalent to Office Student and Teacher 2003 but with OneNote instead of Outlook. The Basic package, with Word, Excel, and Outlook, only comes preinstalled on computers sold by manufacturers that have Microsoft software licensing agreements. At $449 ($279 upgrade), Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 costs $50 less than the Professional edition that includes the Access database program. Only the Enterprise and the $679 ($539 upgrade) Ultimate editions include the new Groove tool. And oddly, both the Enterprise and Professional Plus editions lack the Business Contact Manager component of Outlook, which corporate users might want for their marketing efforts.
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Microsoft has followed through on its promises to make Office 2000 much more accessible than Office 97. The Office 2000 development team took a leadership role and worked with screen reader manufacturers and sought feedback from consumers and trainers at conventions and private meetings. The largest improvement was in Access, which went from inaccessible to somewhat usable. Henter-Joyce has done extensive work in Excel, and JAWS for Windows works better than other screen readers with that program. Word has become a much more comfortable environment in which to work.
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Learn to use Microsoft Office 2000 applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook! Word 2000 is a comprehensive word processing program for creating letters, resumes, flyers and more. Excel 2000 is a powerful spreadsheet program for generating simple and complex calculations and charts. PowerPoint 2000 is an easy-to-use presentation application for creating impressive presentations and handouts. Access 2000 is a convenient database application for storing, accessing and retrieving information. Outlook 2000 is a calendar, email and contacts program for organizing your meetings, appointments, contacts and communications.
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This exclusive print reference from Microsoft Press is designed to help developers take advantage of Microsoft Office. These six volumes offer A-Z documentation of the features, objects, collections, events, functions, methods, and properties available within the Office 2000 development environment. The set comprises language references for Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Office Web Components, Office Web Server, and Outlook, plus a libraries reference for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications(VBA). This essential programming reference delivers the from-the-source, technical accuracy and detail you can only get from Microsoft.
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In addition to exposing its applications' functionality, Office 2000 takes programmability a step further with discrete programmable objects in the form of Office Web components. These components are ActiveX® Controls that deliver a subset of the rich functionality of the Excel Spreadsheet, Chart and PivotTable® dynamic views features. With these smaller, single-purpose building blocks, developers can build solutions that integrate powerful functionality without having to run the entire Excel application. Because these building blocks are ActiveX components, developers can host the functionality in custom solutions (Visual Basic forms, Office documents) as well as in the browser.
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Office 2000 still uses nonstandard controls. However, it is now more difficult to find controls that do not function properly. For example, the Go to dialog in Excel 97 was unusable with several screen readers, but it functions in Excel 2000. When you Tab around in a dialog box, such as Word 2000's Page setup or Font dialogs, buttons, combo boxes, and radio buttons are read. The current status of check boxes (whether checked or unchecked) is announced.
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