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Support for Macintosh Software via Atomic Learning: AddressBook, iCal, iChat, Firefox, Mail

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A. Basics-Lesson 1 & 2. **Introducing the new features in Office 2008** B. Basics-Lesson 3. **Using the toolbars** C. Basics-Lesson 4. **Using the Office Toolbox** D. Basics-Lesson 7 & 8. **Using the Compatibility Mode** E. Basics-Lesson 9. **Opening Word 2008 in earlier versions of Word** F. Basics-Lesson 11. **Creating a PDF** G. Text Formatting-Lesson 5. **Using Publishing Layout View** H. Text Formatting-Lesson 9. **Working with clipboard/scrapbook** I. Text Formatting-Lesson 16. **Using ligatures** J. Printing-Lesson 1 & 2. **Working with print preview** K. Printing-Lesson 3. **Printing options**
 * Microsoft Office 2008** Lessons
 * Word 2008 Intro** section

A. Tables-Lesson 3. **Inserting a quick table into a document** B. Working with Graphics-Lesson 4. **Inserting a SmartArt Graphic** C. Working with Charts-Lessons 1-6. **__Create__ an Excel chart within Word**
 * Word 2008 Intermediate** section

A. Scrapbook-Lessons 1-7. **Scrapbook features** B. Publishing Layout View-Lessons 1-29. **Create newsletters, flyers and brochures** C. Table of Contents-Lessons 1-8. **Create a Table of Contents automatically** D. Citations and Bibliography-Lessons 1-11. **Management of citations and bibliographies**
 * Word 2008 Advanced** section

A. Getting Started-Lesson 3. **Working with toolbars** B. Getting Started-Lesson 4. **Using the toolbox** C. Getting Started-Lesson 5. **Selecting predesigned templates** D. Designing Slides-Lesson 1. **Changing a slide layout** E. Designing Slides-Lesson 2. **Changing a slide background**
 * PowerPoint 2008 Intro** section

A. Basics-Lesson 3. **Using the toolbar** B. Basics-Lesson 4. **Using the Office Toolbox** C. Basics-Lesson 5. **Using the Elements gallery** D. Basics-Lesson 8. **Using ledger sheets** E. Basics-Lesson 10 & 11. **Understanding the new XML file format** F. Formulas and Functions-Lesson 5. **Using the Formula Builder**
 * Excel 2008 Intro** section

A. Sharing Data with Word-Lesson 2. **Copying and pasting as a link**
 * Excel 2008 Advanced** section

A. Getting Started-Lesson 2. **Adding a contact to Address Book** B. Basic Operations-Lesson 2. **Editing a contact** A. Getting Started-Lesson 7. **Creating a group of contacts**
 * Address Book** Lessons - located in **Address Book - OSX** section

1. Open Address Book. Select **Directories**. 2. In the search field in the upper right-hand corner, enter the name of the contact. Address Book will search our directory to return any hits. 3. Select the contact and click **Select Buddy**.
 * To search the ESU 7 Directory:** only when computer is within the ESU 7 building.

A. Calendar Basics-Lesson 2. **Adding events to a calendar** A. Calendar Basics-Lesson 4. **Creating a To Do list** A. Calendar Basics-Lesson 1. **Creating a new calendar**
 * iCal Lessons** - located in **iCal - OSX** section

1. Choose **New Calendar Group** from the **File** menu. 2. Rename your **Calendar Group**. 3. Drag and drop calendars into your **Calendar Groups**. NOTE: You can turn on and turn off calendars by group or by individual calendar.
 * To create Calendar Groups** - to further organize your calendars

1. Select a **Calendar** or **Calendar Group** to publish. 2. From the **Calendar** menu, choose **Publish**. 3. Enter a name for the Calendar in the **Publish calendar as** field. 4. Change the **Publish on** field to **a Private Server**. 5. Enter **skipper.esu7.org/first_last name/calendars** as the **Base URL**. Example: skipper.esu7.org/dan_ellsworth/calendars 6. Enter your **short name** and **password**. Short names are usually the first initial of your first name followed by your entire last name. The password is the same password used to log in to your computer. 7. Check **Publish changes automatically** and verify that **Publish titles and notes** is already checked. 8. Click **Publish**.
 * To publish a calendar -** allow others to view or subscribe to your calendars

To **subscribe to other people’s calendars** - may view their calendar within 15 minutes of changes 1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://skipper.esu7.org. 2. Click on the **ESU7 Employee Schedules** link. 3. Scroll down and click on an employee's calendar. 4. Scroll to the bottom of their calendar. 5. The user may have multiple calendars within the **Pick Multiple** section. If so, highlight the calendar you wish to view and click **Go**. 6. Within the **Legend** section, choose **Subscribe**. 7. iCal will open a window with the path to the calendar. Click **Subscribe**. 8. Rename the calendar. You may also change the color or sort it into a Calendar Group.

1. Navigate to http://skipper.esu7.org. 2. Click on the **ESU7 Employee Schedules** link.
 * To check my/co-worker calendar from another computer**

1. Populate the **Attendees** section of the Event. They will view the event best if they use iCal. 2. Click **Send** at the bottom of the information window for that event.
 * To send invitations via iCal**

1. OS X Mail will automatically add a notification in iCal. 2. View the notification, by clicking the **Notification** button 3. Click the notification and read the details of the event in the **Info** section. 4. Respond at the bottom of the event, choose **Accept**, **Decline**, or **Tentative**. Select a calendar for he event under and click **Reply**.
 * To respond an invitation**

Visit this website to download a tutorial movie - http://www.wap.org/tutorials/iChatScreencast.html Hold down the **control** key and click on the **iChat tutorial** link. From the contextual menu, select **Download Linked File As** ichat.mov to place it on your computer.
 * iChat**

Check out this website for the Mac 101 iChat Tutorial from Apple - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2515

An AIM account has been created for each ESU 7 employee. If you do not know what your AIM username or password is, contact the Technology Support Department.

C. Setting Options in Firefox-Lesson 1. **Configuring Main Options** H. Using Tabbed Browsing-Lessons 1-9 **Creating and configuring tabs** K. Managing Bookmarks-Lessons 1-9 **Creating and uses bookmarks**
 * Firefox** Lessons located in **Firefox 2** section

Secure websites are noted in the web address http changes to https. The **S** stands for **secure** and means that information transmitted while on a https site is encrypted from your computer to the website. This makes it very hard for hackers to intercept your personal information. If you participate in e-commerence, verify that the sites you are using are secure.
 * To make certain you are on a secure website**

D. Organizing Messages-Lesson 1. Creating a mailbox
 * Mail** Lessons located in **Mail - OSX** section

1. Drag and drop the e-mail message above the mailbox's blue folder icon.
 * To store emails in a mailbox**

Mail allows you to automatically file email mesages. Use rules to create sets of conditions and corresponding actions for incoming emails. 1. Go to **Mail** --> **Preferences**, click on the **Rules** tab. 2. To create a rule, click the **Add Rule** button. Example: setup a rule to automatically send emails from a person to a certain mailbox.
 * To create rules**