Overview
Experience learning made easy—quickly learn how to use Office Groove 2007 to dynamically and effectively collaborate with team members. Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips—and learn how to work better together. You’ll learn the basics for getting started, including how to manage your Groove 2007 accounts and contacts and how to create new workspaces. After you’re up and running, you'll discover the communication features of Groove 2007, and see the benefits of tight integration with Office Communicator and Windows Live™ Messenger. You’ll learn how to manage your messages and chat in real time, and how to manage your appointments and notes. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction, building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes an easy-search companion CD with hands-on practice files, a complete eBook, a bonus quick reference to the new user interface, and more!
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Synopsis
Experience learning made easy-quickly learn how to use Office Groove 2007 to dynamically and effectively collaborate with team members. Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips-and learn how to work better together. You'll learn the basics for getting started, including how to manage your Groove 2007 accounts and contacts and how to create new workspaces. After you're up and running, you'll discover the communication features of Groove 2007, and see the benefits of tight integration with Office Communicator and Windows Live Messenger. You'll learn how to manage your messages and chat in real time, and how to manage your appointments and notes. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction, building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes an easy-search companion CD with hands-on practice files, a complete eBook, a bonus quick reference to the new user interface, and more!
Key Book Benefits:
•Learn how to use Office Groove 2007 by taking just the lessons you need or by working from cover to cover-you set the pace
•Includes coverage of the fundamentals, including setting up workspaces, managing your communications, and managing meetings and notes
•Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on, skill-building exercises
•Includes a companion CD with practice files and other resources
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
Microsoft Groove 2007 is a remarkably powerful tool for helping teams collaborate more closely and effectively -- if the members of those teams know how to use it. That's where Microsoft Groove 2007 Step by Step comes in. Microsoft has applied its wonderfully friendly, easy, visual Step by Step book format to Groove. The result is a hands-on, intensely practical tutorial you'll want to share with every Groove user you know.Collaboration software is notoriously slippery to explain. Thankfully, Rick Jewell starts by thoroughly demystifying what Groove is and what you can get out of it. Next, you'll get rolling: setting up Groove workspaces; inviting colleagues (with or without Groove) to participate; exploring your workspace; adding files and tools; creating and organizing your Groove contacts.
Then, using the accompanying disk's sample files, you'll deepen your expertise, one step at a time. Jewell explains how (and why) to use Groove's powerful Alert features for workspaces, tools, folders, and files. You'll learn how to use Groove's built-in chat and instant messaging tools (and discover some handy keyboard shortcuts you might not ever notice on your own).
You'll get hands-on practice with managing pretty much everything Groove can manage: files, folders, permissions, appointments, meetings, agendas, notes, issues, discussions, and more. Jewell doesn't cover these features in the abstract: you'll walk away clearly understanding how they can make your whole workgroup more productive.
If your organization has both Groove and SharePoint, you'll learn how to use them together (and when to use each in preference to the other). There's also a full chapter on troubleshooting, maintenance, and security: indispensable if someone's put you in charge of Groove for your team or workgroup. Bill Camarda, from the February 2008 Read Only