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ECDL / ICDL Module 7 (Syllabus Four) Using Microsoft Office 2007
Information and Communication Courseware

PLEASE NOTE: The ECDL / ICDL Courseware Library includes versions for Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 & Office 2007. Plus versions for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista

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INTERNET TERMINOLOGY AND CONCEPTS

• World Wide Web (WWW) vs. the Internet
• HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
• Hyperlinks
• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• Web sites and URLs
• Web Browser
• Cookies
• Internet cache

USING INTERNET EXPLORER

• Opening the Microsoft Internet Explorer program
• Viewing a particular Web site
• Minimizing, maximizing, restoring and closing icons
• Zoom
• Hyperlinks
• Navigating through Web sites
• Back and Forward buttons
• Forcing a Web page to display within a new window
• Forcing a Web page to display within a new tab
• Switching between tabs
• Quick Tabs
• Tab List
• Closing a tab
• Stop button
• Refreshing Web pages
• Internet Explorer icons
• Copying a picture from a Web site page
• Saving a picture on a Web page as a picture file
• Copying a Web address to a document
• Saving a Web page
• Downloading files from a Web page
• Adobe Acrobat files

SEARCH ENGINES

• Search Engines
• Searching using Instant Search
• Searching using the Address Bar
• Adding new search engines
• Temporarily changing the search engine
• Changing the default search engine
• Search Engine Web sites
• Using keywords and phrases
• Don't use a single search word!
• Using + and " symbols to narrow your search

GETTING HELP WITHIN INTERNET EXPLORER

• Displaying Help
• Help Demos
• Browsing for Help
• Asking for Help
• Printing Help sheets

CUSTOMIZING INTERNET EXPLORER

• Setting your Home Page (i.e. opening page)
• Setting multiple Home Pages
• Revisiting Web pages via the address bar
• Displaying your viewing history
• Deleting a history item
• Deleting the entire browsing history and temporary files
• Customizing history options
• Adding a Web page to your favourites
• Opening a favourite (bookmark)
• Creating a new favourites folder
• Moving a favourite to a folder
• Renaming a bookmark
• Deleting a bookmark
• Adding a Web page to a specified bookmark folder
• Toolbars
• Disabling picture display
• Setting your default browser
• Installing Add-ons

FEEDS

• What are feeds?
• Viewing Web pages containing feeds
• Subscribing to feeds
• Viewing subscribed feeds
• Unsubscribing from Feeds

SECURITY ISSUES

• Web based forms
• Protected sites
• Digital certificates
• Encryption
• The dangers of surfing!
• Protecting your credit cards
• Firewalls
• Pop-Up blocking
• Information Bar
• Phishing Filter
• Parental Filtering
• Windows Update

INTERNET EXPLORER - PRINTING ISSUES

• Previewing Web pages
• Page Setup
• Printing the entire Web page
• Printing a selected area on a Web page
• Printing selected frames within a framed Web site

A FIRST LOOK AT OUTLOOK

• Starting Outlook
• The Microsoft Outlook Screen
• Help and Outlook demos
• Printing help sheets
• Microsoft Outlook Navigation Pane
• Microsoft Outlook Standard Toolbar
• Displaying or hiding toolbars
• Quick way of displaying / hiding toolbars
• Closing Outlook

EMAIL CONCEPTS

• The structure of an email address
• The advantages of using email
• Netiquette
• Spam or Unsolicited Email
• Viruses
• Phishing
• Digital signature

SENDING MESSAGES

• Creating and sending your first email
• Checking that your email was sent
• Sending emails to more than one person at a time
• Receiving emails
• Sending a copy of a message to another address
• What is a blind carbon copy?
• Sending a copy of a message to another address using blind carbon copy
• Setting message subject
• Spell checking your message
• Inserting a file into a message
• Setting message importance
• Setting message sensitivity

RECEIVING, READING AND REPLYING TO MESSAGES

• The Inbox Folder
• Opening the Inbox folder
• The Inbox Screen
• Selecting a message
• Message Status icons
• Reading a message
• Switching between open Message windows
• Forwarding a message
• Opening or saving an attached file
• Replying to the sender of a message
• Replying to the sender and all recipients of a message
• Setting message reply options so that the original message is inserted, or not inserted
• Printing a message
• Previewing a message before printing
• Printing Options

MANIPULATING TEXT AND FILES

• Selecting a word within the Message window
• Selecting a line within the Message window
• Selecting a paragraph within the Message window
• Selecting all text within the Message window
• Selecting text using the mouse
• Copying text to the Clipboard from a message
• Pasting text from the Clipboard into a message
• Copying text from one message to another
• Cutting text to the Clipboard from a message
• Moving text from one message to another
• Copying text from another application into a message
• Deleting text in a message
• Deleting text to the left of the insertion point
• Deleting text to the right of the insertion point
• Deleting an attached file from a message

CONTACTS

• What are contacts?
• Opening the Contacts folder
• Creating a contact
• Adding the sender of a message to contacts
• Addressing an email to a contact
• Deleting a contact
• What is a distribution list?
• Creating a new distribution list
• Adding an email address to a distribution list
• Removing an email address from a distribution list
• Sending an email to a distribution list

ORGANISING MAIL

• Searching for a message
• Searching for messages by sender, subject or content
• Creating a new mail folder
• Moving a message to a different folder
• Deleting a mail folder
• Sorting the contents of the Inbox
• Deleting a message
• Opening the Deleted Items Folder
• Restoring a message from the Deleted Items Folder
• Emptying the Deleted Items Folder
• Automatically emptying the Deleted Items Folder when you exit Outlook
• Flagging a message
• Removing a flag mark from a mail message
• Marking a message as unread
• Marking a message as read

CUSTOMISING SETTINGS

• Adding an Inbox heading
• Removing an Inbox heading
• Resetting the Inbox headings

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