ADVISORY/Desktop Computing Championship To Showcase World's Top Talent; Students From 17 Countries in Orlando for Finals of First Annual Microsoft Office XP Competition.Assignment Desks/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. (May 18) ORLANDO Orlando, city, United States Orlando (ôrlăn`dō), city (1990 pop. 164,693), seat of Orange co., central Fla., in a lake region; inc. 1875. In a citrus fruit and farm area, it is one of the world's most visited vacation spots. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2003 Anyone that's ever fancied themselves as a "Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. of Word" or "Empress of Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. " will soon have some new role models to aspire to aspire to verb aim for, desire, pursue, hope for, long for, crave, seek out, wish for, dream about, yearn for, hunger for, hanker after, be eager for, set your heart on, set your sights on, be ambitious for . That's because, this weekend, top high school and college students from around the globe will meet in Orlando to showcase their nationally-acclaimed desktop computing computing - computer skills and compete for the title of "world champion" in the first annual Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. XP Competition.
WHO: More than 30 high school and college students, ranging in
age from 15- to 36-years-old, from 17 countries.
WHAT: Will compete for status as world's best and brightest
student in the area of desktop computing skills.
Specifically, each student will be tested on their expertise
in effectively using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
programs.
WHY: To crown world champions of the first annual Microsoft
Office XP Competition, an international competition
sponsored by Certiport, Inc., and to promote the benefits of
the Microsoft Office Specialist certification program.
WHEN & WHERE: An award ceremony honoring winners of this year's
competition will be held at 5 p.m. (ET), Sunday,
May 18, in the American Adventure Rotunda located
at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Translators will be on-site and available to
media interested in interviewing this year's
winners and runners-up.
Competition organizers including Steve Clinger,
senior director of field marketing, Certiport,
Inc. and Diana Carew, of Microsoft Corporation's
Education Solutions Group will also be available
to answer questions and to provide background on
the competition.
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