Microsoft Office 2000: Small Business Tools

Students will learn how to simplify the daily tasks of running a small business. Prerequisites

Excel 2000: Worksheets, Outlook 2000: Level 1, Word 2000: Level 1, Windows 98: Introduction, or equivalent knowledge.

Target Student

Students enrolling in this course should understand the basics of using the applications that are mentioned in the prerequisites above. Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Create a customer database and protect, manage, and analyze the data within it.
Use the resources that are available in Business Planner, and complete a section of the Business Plan Wizard.
Use the Direct Mail Manager Wizard to create a direct mailing.
Create a financial database that you can use to present and analyze your company's financial data.

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. What's next

This is the only course for Microsoft Office 2000: Small Business Tools.

Course duration 1 Day(s) Course outline

Lesson 1: Working with Small Business Customer Manager

Introduction to Microsoft Small Business Tools and Small Business Customer Manager
Working with Views
Automating Common Office Tasks
Managing Contacts

Lesson 2: Working with Business Planner

Working with the Personal Interviewer, Articles, and the Resource Center
Creating a Business Plan

Lesson 3: Working with Direct Mail Manager

Using Direct Mail Manager

Lesson 4: Working with Small Business Financial Manager

Creating a Financial Database
Creating and Modifying a Financial Report
Analyzing Financial Data
Charting Financial Data

Appendix A: Database Utilities

Hardware/software Requirements

A Pentium 90 or faster processor with 16 MB of RAM. (For Windows NT 4.0, 32 MB of RAM.) For each additional application, add 4 MB of RAM (8 MB for Outlook).
Approximately 182 MB of free hard-disk space for Small Business Tools and Publisher. (For Word, Excel, and Outlook, you will need an additional 440 MB. For Microsoft Money 2000 Business & Personal, you will need 70 MB.)
Either a local CD-ROM drive or access to a networked CD-ROM drive for installation purposes.
A floppy-disk drive.
A two-button mouse, an IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device.
VGA or higher resolution monitor; Super VGA recommended.
An installed printer driver. (Printers are not required; however, each PC must have an installed printer driver.)
An Internet connection with access to the World Wide Web. The connection is necessary to complete some tasks and Web Tips throughout the book. FYI: Internet access may require payment of a separate fee to a service provider.
Microsoft Windows 95 (or later) operating system, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 4.0 Service Pack 3 (or later). If you are running Windows NT, make sure that you have at least 4 MB of free registry space.
A default installation of Microsoft 2000 Small Business Tools.
A custom installation of Microsoft Office 2000.
A default installation of Microsoft Money 2000 Business & Personal.