Collaborative Features in Word 2007

Overview/Description
Microsoft Office Word 2007 offers several options for securing and protecting Word documents as well as providing various collaborative features. This course demonstrates how to use Word 2007's document security, which includes locking document formatting, password protecting a document, marking a document as read-only, using Document Inspector, viewing privacy options, and adding a digital signature. It explains the various workspace collaboration features available using SharePoint in addition to creating a document library. This course also discusses and demonstrates working with HTML to save a document as a web page and creating a web page in Word as well as how to create blogs in Word 2007.

Target Audience
Personnel at all levels of the enterprise; advanced end-users seeking to attain proficiency in Word 2007; advanced end-users seeking to obtain Microsoft Office certification at in the use of Microsoft Word 2007; end-users seeking a basic IT certification such as ECDL/ ICDL4, or an equivalent.

Prerequisites
The Microsoft Office 2007: Advanced Word learning path; familiarity with the Microsoft Windows environment and some experience of using Microsoft Office; competency in the use of Microsoft Word; an understanding of the Internet and web-page functionality, as well as an understanding of the process of web-page creation, would be an advantage.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Collaborative Features in Word 2007

lock document formatting

assign a password to a document

use the Document Inspector

add a digital signature

secure a document

remove private information from a document

upload a Word document to SharePoint

create a document library and upload a Word document to it

assign a specific password to open a document

use the protect document feature limit formatting to a selection of styles

save a document as a web page