Microsoft Office Online Training from Microsoft

Microsoft has a wonderful Office online training site available at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training-FX101782702.aspx.  This site gives you the ability to select the product and version for which you want to get training. You can even download the training for a version to be able to train anywhere.  If you need help getting rolling on your Office 2010, 2007, or even 2003, check out this site!

MS Office 2007 Help Tab

For those of you who have recently converted from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007 here on campus, there is a free "Help Tab" that you can download for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  It is available at the following link: Getting Started with Microsoft Office 2007.  In addition, this link will provide you with links to Office 2007 training videos on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.

MS Office 2007

Over the next several weeks, Microsoft Office 2007 will be installed on faculty computers across the campus. While many faculty are already familiar with Office 2007, there will be a few one-hour workshops in the CTE Lab (E-204) for faculty who are not. In addition, for those of you who prefer anytime/anywhere training, the following link will take you to Microsoft's own training site that has videos explaining the difference between the Office 2007 and Office 2003 products: Getting Started with Microsoft 2007 As always, if you have any questions, please contact me, Marie-Ange Zicher, in the CTE at either mzicher@triton.edu or at extension 3269.

Office 2007 files are changed to ZIP files by Internet Explorer

The scenario:

Someone has uploaded an Office 2007 file (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc...) to a website. You connect to the website using Internet Explorer and find your file, then you click the link to begin downloading. Everything seems great until---- an unexpected window pops up asking you to open or save a "ZIP" file. How did this happen and how do you fix it?

Internet Explorer sometimes (depending on version and updates applied) will inspect the contents of a download and "guess" which program would be best to open that file. While this feature is sometimes helpful, it can also choose an incorrect program and fail to open your file properly. The solution is to force Internet Explorer to open downloaded files based on the file extension, (.docx -Word, .xlsx -Excel, etc.), and to not inspect the contents of the file.

Here are the steps to turn this feature off:

1. Click "Tools" at the top of the Internet Explorer window.
2. Select "Internet Options" at the bottom of the list.
3. Click the "Security" tab.
4. Select the "Internet Zone" (picture of the Earth)
5. Click the "Custom Level" button.
6. Search the list for the "Miscellaneaous" category and under this heading you will find an option to toggle "Open files based on content, not file extension".
This should be changed/set to "Disable".
7. You may also need to do this same process with the "Local Intranet Zone" under the security tab.
8. Done

You should now be able to download your files without issue and they should open with the expected program.