Installing and Using "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft"

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What is "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft"?

"Teaching and Learning with Microsoft" is a set of two compact discs that includes tools for teachers and students, classroom activities, utilities, clip art, guides, tutorials, lessons, and other software that is designed to help enhance learning, improve teacher productivity, and create new possibilities in the classroom.

System Requirements

"Teaching and Learning with Microsoft" requires that either Microsoft Office 97 for Windows or Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition is installed on the computer. The two compact discs are designed to be used under either the Microsoft Windows or the Macintosh operating system.

Windows System Requirements

• Personal computer with a 486/66 or higher processor
  
  
• Microsoft Windows 95 or later, or Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 with Service Pack 5 or later
  
  
• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
  
  
• 10 megabytes (MB) of available hard disk space for templates, wizards, and activities; up to 220 MB to install all file converters, clip art, and fonts
  
  
• CD-ROM drive
  
  
• Optional requirements: 9600 or higher baud modem, Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia

Compact Disc 2 requirements:

• 12 MB of RAM for use under Windows 95, 24 MB of RAM for use under Windows NT 4.0
  
  
• 47 MB of available hard disk space for standard installation
  
  
• CD-ROM drive
  
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, or a compatible Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 is included on the CD.)

Macintosh System Requirements

• Macintosh computer with a PowerPC processor
  
  
• Macintosh operating system software 7.5 or later
  
  
• Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
  
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later for the Macintosh, or another compatible Web browser (Internet Explorer is included on Disk 2 of this package and on the Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition compact disc.)
  
  
• 10 MB of available hard disk space for templates, wizards, and activities; up to 220 MB to install all file converters, clip art, and fonts
  
  
• CD-ROM drive
  
  
• Optional requirements: 9600 or higher baud modem, Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia

Compact Disc 2 requirements:

• 8 MB of RAM with virtual memory turned on
  
  
• 28 MB of available hard disk space for standard installation
  
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, or a compatible Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for Macintosh is included on the CD.)

The Contents of the Compact Discs

Compact Disc 1

• Teacher Tools: More than 30 timesaving templates for teachers, including grade books, tests, and lesson plans
  
  
• Student Tools: More than 30 templates for students, including reports, lab sheets, graph paper, and conversion tables
  
  
• Classroom Activities: 10 guided classroom activities for using Microsoft Office in the classroom in fun, real-world ways
  
  
• Microsoft Encarta Research Organizer: A student tool for managing information from a variety of sources to integrate it into Microsoft Word for papers, reports, and other projects (The Research Organizer requires Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, which is sold separately.)
  
  
• File Conversion Utilities: Tools that make it easy to share files with earlier versions of Microsoft Office programs
  
  
• Clip Gallery: More than 5,000 clip art images

Compact Disc 2

• In and Out of the Classroom: Self-paced guides to help teachers learn and use Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft FrontPage (Programs are sold separately.)
  
  
• Internet Explorer 4.0 in the Classroom: An online tutorial that makes learning the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 browser fast, fun, and effective for teachers and students alike
  
  
• Microsoft Productivity in the Classroom: Classroom-tested lessons that integrate a variety of Microsoft software including Microsoft Office, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, and Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition (Office, FrontPage, and Encarta programs are sold separately.)
  
  
• Moving from the Mac to Windows 95: A two-hour "workshop in a box" that contains training materials for your school or district.

How to Install the Contents of Each Compact Disc

• Instructions for installing Compact Disc 1 are contained on page 7 of the booklet that is included in the "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft" package.
• Instructions for installing Compact Disc 2 are contained on page 10 of the booklet that is included in the "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft" package.

Microsoft Support Policy for "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft"

The following support policies apply to the files included in the "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft" package:

• Microsoft supports installation of the compact discs only to a local hard disk. Installing to a network drive is not supported.
  
  
• The templates and wizards designed for use in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint are provided as is. Microsoft supports basic functionality within the templates and wizards. However, modification of the templates and wizards is not supported.
  
  
• Microsoft supports the functionality of the Help files designed for use with Microsoft Office 97, and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files designed for use with Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition. However, modification of these help files and HTML files is not supported.
  
  
• If you have problems installing Microsoft Internet Explorer, contact Microsoft Internet Explorer technical support. Microsoft Office engineers support the installation and use of the templates, wizards, and other components, but not Internet Explorer.

Known Issues and Problems

There are a couple of issues that are known to occur when you use the templates, wizards, or other files that are included in the "Teaching and Learning with Microsoft" package. These are the following:

• In the Code Crackers Math Game in Microsoft Excel, if you click the Show Numbers In Cells button twice, the columns in the worksheet are not properly resized to the correct width. You must manually correct the column widths within the worksheet.
  
  
• In the Voting Survey in Microsoft Word, the check boxes in the document do not work correctly unless you perform the following steps:
  
  
  1. On the Tools menu, click Protect Document.
  2. Select the Forms option button. Click OK.