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At UNCG, Microsoft (MS) Office is the adopted office suite. It include MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Therefore, you should purchase a copy to ensure you have success in all of your class.

Tips

Practice your skills. For users that are brand new to Microsoft Office applications, check your local bookstore for a guide to using Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint or consult online tutorials. You can use Google to search for online tutorials or consult these:
Save your work often. Make sure you know how to save Word documents (.doc) on your computer and save frequently! Imagine losing all your work after typing 10 pages! This will never happen if you save frequently. You can also set your computer to save every few minutes automatically.

Setting up AutoSave Function

Start Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Select Tools on the menu bar.

Select Options on the pull down menu.

Under the Save session, check Save AutoRecover info every: and change the amount of minutes you wish.

Organize school work in folders. If you are a Windows user (i.e. Windows XP, 2000, or ME), create a designated folder to save all of your school documents inside of My Documents. Within My Documents, , create new folders for each class in which you enroll. For example, if you are taking "Contemporary World" and "Discovering Animal Societies," then name the folders with these course titles.
Use Microsoft Office templates. To save time and establish a uniform look for your writing projects use Microsoft Office templates. A great resource is located here: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/templategallery/.
Take advantage of Microsoft Word's spell and grammar checks. Correct many spelling or grammar mistakes easily by running Microsoft application's spell and grammar checks. This feature is limited and therefore it is still important for you to proofread. Remember, spell check unit catches a correctly spelled word in the wrong place, i.e., "What are you doing here?"
Check your work one last time. Before turning your assignment in make sure that the layout, formatting, and writing are the way you want the professor to see them.

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