Download the practice files for any book in the Exploring Windows series from the Exploring Windows home page at www.prenhall.com/grauer. Use any Web browser to get to this site, click the Office 2000 text, click the link to Student Resources, then click the link to student data disks, where you choose the appropriate book and download the file. Be sure to read the associated “read me” file that provides additional information about downloading the file.
The Menus Change
Office 2000 implements one very significant change over previous versions in that it displays a series of short menus that contain only basic commands. The bottom of each menu has a double arrow that you can click to display the additional commands. Each time you execute a command it is added to the menu, and conversely, less frequently used commands are from a menu after a period of time. You can, however, display the full menus through the Customize command in the Tools menu.
Separate the Toolbars
Office 2000 displays the Standard and Formatting toolbars on the same row to save space within the application window. The result is that only a limited number of buttons are visible on each toolbar, and hence you may need to click the double arrow (More Buttons) tool at the end of the toolbar to view additional buttons. You can, however, separate the toolbars. Pull down the Tools menu, click the Customize command, click the Options tab, and then clear the check box that has the toolbars share one row.
Sort by Name, Date, or File Size
The files in the Save As and Open dialog boxes can be displayed in ascending or descending sequence by name, date modified, or size. Change to the Details view, then click the heading of the desired column; e.g. click the Modified column to list the files according to the date they were last changed. Click the column heading a second time to reverse the sequence; that is, to switch from ascending to descending, and vice versa.
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