7.9. Work on the Internet with MS OFFICE 97 applications

The Internet is capable of supporting all MS Office 97 components. With Word 97, you can convert traditional DOC files into HTMLWeb pages. The Power Pointl 97 program allows you to create presentations for transfer via the WWW, and Excel 97 to export work tables created by it to HTML tables.

In addition, the list of available Internet sites may include FTP sites. If the enterprise uses the corporate Intranet, then documents can be opened directly in it. As with the Internet, the intranet uses a viewer and communication software. Some of these networks allow access to the Internet through a security gateway called a firewall. If you have the appropriate access rights and if the FTP site supports file saving, you can save documents to the Internet by using the MS Office Document Save dialog box.

Using Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point and Microsoft Access, you can view MS Office documents with hyperlinks and determine their location. In MS Office documents for working with hyperlinks, you should have access to the Internet.

In MS Office programs, the Web toolbar is used to simplify the viewing of documents with hyperlinks, with which you can open the start page or search page in the Web viewer. The Web toolbar helps put documents you need on the Web into your Favorites folder for quick access. Panel 1 Web contains a list of the 10 most recent documents that are opened using the Web panel or hyperlinks. The list provides the ability to quickly return to these documents.

Web pages that include hyperlinks, data, tables, and charts of Excel 97 worksheets can be created using Microsoft Office applications.

Hyperlinks are shortcuts that allow you to quickly switch to another book or file. Switching is carried out on files of the user's computer, on the Internet and WWW; Hyperlinks are created from text cells or graphic objects, such as shapes or pictures.

Office 97 combines two information technologies that define a new computer model. The first is based on the fact that information can be placed anywhere - on a local hard drive, on a local or corporate network or the global Internet; the second is that users really do not work with applications, but directly with documents and the information contained in them.

There are two ways to work:

1) work with Office applications with periodic calls to the intranet company or the Internet behind the necessary Web page (document, add-in) for the application or additional information about the program;

2) work inside Internet Explorer, its use as the only medium in which you can view and modify any document located on the user's disk, on the company’s network or on the Internet.

Office 97 and Internet Explorer form a single universal tool that allows you to view and edit documents, and it gives you the opportunity to search, view and edit any information.

When using the Internet browser, which allows you to navigate between Web pages and display them on the screen, you can track down a Web page or document in three ways:

1) enter the address manually;

2) click on the text or graphic hyperlink, which will request the page you are looking for;

3) click on the link that is stored in the journal or list of nodes.