Opening Microsoft Office Applications in Windows Vista

Note: This tutorial demonstrates how to open Microsoft Power Point, but all other Office applications can be opened in essentially the same manner.

1. Click the Start button on the bottom left of the screen. 
2. Select All Programs located on the bottom of the Start menu.

   
    

3. Select the Applications folder. Within that folder, select the Microsoft Office folder.

   

4. A list of Microsoft programs appears. Select the program you want to use.
5. You may or may not see the following popup windows, but do NOT click “Cancel” on either of the following messages. The program should only take a few minutes to load. Allowing these processes to complete will prevent the popup windows from appearing again. 
   
   
   
     
    
6. If you see the following error message after the Office program has been configured, click OK.
    
7. If you open PowerPoint, you might see a window that says, “Welcome to Camtasia Studio PowerPoint Add-In.” Click OK. Note: you may also see a smaller popup message regarding name and initials. The fields are already filled out and you can just click OK to close the popup window.
   
    
8. To open your presentation or document, click the Office menu button on the top left program.
9. The Office menu appears, where you may perform all of your file operations such as “Open,” “Save As,” “Print”, etc.
   
    
   Please contact us if you have any problems opening applications on a classroom computer.