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Now students can enhance their study skills with the integrated group of essential tools found in Microsoft Student 2006. These tools help students complete assignments more efficiently and are a great companion to Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003 or Microsoft Office Student and Teacher. With the student-focused Learning Essentials tools, students can create more logical and organized reports/presentations using visual and informational guides; access tools and information, categorized by school subject; produce thorough research papers with research tutorials, organizational tools and bibliography help; research topics with Microsoft Encarta Reference Premium, which provides more up-to-date content and more engaging multimedia than ever before. |
| Description : |
New! Learning Essentials for Students transforms Microsoft Office XP and 2003 into a student-oriented application for homework assignments.1 A custom-designed interface provides a personalized Office experience, allowing students to work efficiently and deliver superior results with every assignment. Templates and tutorials developed in conjunction with Great Source Houghton Mifflin, Pearson Prentice Hall and SchoolKiT provide relevant, curriculum-based content, while toolbars help students quickly find the Office tools they need for specific tasks. |
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Templates for Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint give students the guidance they need to get beyond the blank page and produce high-quality documents. Examples include templates for homework planning, writing projects, book reports, guidelines for great presentations, and templates for improved analytical thinking on physics and chemistry assignments |
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Tutorials accompany many of the templates and walk students step by step through producing top-quality work. The Research Writing tutorial walks a student through the tasks of completing three types of research reports, while the Understanding Chart Types tutorial explains how to use charts to organize and analyze data |
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Toolbars expose a customized set of student-oriented resources and commands in Office, including foreign-language dictionaries, spell checking and bibliography assistance. Toolbars appear automatically, and many are associated with specific templates to provide even more valuable direction for students as they learn important techniques for completing assignments |
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New! Graphing Calculator is full-featured graphing calculator software designed to complement the graphing calculator required of many middle-school and almost all highschool students. Its full-colour display and 2-D and 3-D charting capabilities facilitate success in advanced math classes such as trigonometry and calculus, and science classes such as chemistry and physics. |
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Enhanced visualization. Advanced handheld graphing calculators have small, 1-bit screens, meaning they can only display monochrome, 2-inch-by-3-inch graphs. The Microsoft Graphing Calculator software works with a desktop or laptop to provide all the benefits of a full-size, 8-bit monitor. The ability to view, rotate and animate large, colourful graphs makes problem-solving for advanced mathematics and science courses and understanding difficult concepts significantly easier. |
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Exceptional convenience. The Microsoft Graphing Calculator software takes usability to a new level by addressing the common frustrations of using a handheld device. Students can easily switch between modes by simply expanding or collapsing windows. They can access common science and math formulas with the Equation Library, and view and edit stored variables alongside the worksheet with the Stored Variables pane. |
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Creative customization. Students can express their individual style with a variety of interchangeable Calculator Skins. |
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New! Web Companion streamlines Web research by surfacing accurate, trusted content options when a student conducts a search through popular online search engines. Without launching additional applications, the links to trusted Encarta content appear alongside the search engine results |
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Book Summaries include information about how an author's life influenced his or her work, analysis of the themes and characters in the book, and ideas for writing reports or analyses of the book |
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Project Quick Starters provide tips for starting and completing work on essays, research papers, book reports, creative-writing projects, science projects, art projects and oral presentations |
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Book of Quotations helps students enliven presentations and develop their papers with quotes from literature, history and popular culture on an array of topics. Each quotation includes correct attributions, dates and links to relevant articles in Encarta |
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Trusted content from Encarta includes more than 70,000 Encarta encyclopedia articles edited by a team of thousands of experts in science, history, geography and math. The Encarta Search Bar makes it faster and easier than ever to access these articles by appearing in the Windows task pane even when Encarta is closed, and Update Encarta keeps content current as the world changes. The Encarta Dictionary provides definitions and pronunciations; Translation Dictionaries easily translate words from English to French,German, Italian, Spanish and back again; and the Encarta Thesaurus provides more than 31,000 synonyms and antonyms |
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Extensive multimedia includes more than 25,000 photos and illustrations, 2,500 audio clips,32 Discovery Channel videos, more than 300 video and animation sequences, 3-D virtual tours, and access to live radio and news |
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Interactive World Atlas includes more than 1.8 million interactive map locations |
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Online Math Homework Help provides step-by-step instructions and hints for solving math problems. Organized by four categories, Basic Math, Algebra, Advanced Algebra and Math Homework Help is accessed through a free subscription to MSN Encarta Premium through Oct. 31, 2006 |
| Minimum Processor Requirements : |
333 MHz Pentium III Processor or Higher |
| Minimum Memory Requirements : |
128MB |
| Media Requirement : |
DVD-ROM drive |
| Minimum Storage Requirements : |
430MB |
| Minimum Display Requirements : |
1 x SVGA Monitor |
| Operating System Requirements : |
Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3 |
| Peripherals : |
Microsoft Mouse, IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device, 16-bit sound card with speakers or headphones (for audio files) |
| Version : |
2006 |
| Program : |
Complete Packaged Product |
| Division Name : |
CPXG Software |
| Product Type : |
Standard |
| Volume Level : |
No Level |
| Unit Count : |
Non-specific |
| User Licences : |
1 licences |
| Package Type : |
Retail |