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PB Tech Guy #019
by Steve Lowe
This week
I will be speaking of productivity software, this is week 10,
concentrating on Microsoft Office. Office comes in different levels or
groups called suites. Currently there are about eight different suites of
Office. For now we will be discussing the basic programs that are included
in most of the Office suites. Office 2007 is the most current while 2010
is in the beta or test stage. Office can come with your PC but generally
comes as a temporary program or for a trial period. In the Office suites
there are different programs that are also available for purchase
individually. Some of these programs are Access, Excel, Outlook,
FrontPage, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word.
Access is
used for business and is used to manage a database. Access stores, finds,
updates, organizes and reports information. Excel is great business
software that is designed to design and manage spreadsheets; it also can
perform calculations on complex projects and can also convert data into
charts and graphs. Excel is great for the financial analyst, creating a
budget, or even keeping up with your baseball team’s batting average.
Outlook is the ultimate e-mail software. You can incorporate multiple
email accounts in Outlook. Outlook also has a great calendar system to
schedule your personal events. FrontPage ended with Office 2003 however I
still use it today and is a very popular web design software. In 2007,
Microsoft came out with Expression which is also used to design websites.
PowerPoint is used for presentations. PowerPoint is great for slideshows
and is easy to use. You can even add graphics and sounds to your
presentation. Publisher is used for creating documents, flyers, labels,
and even brochures. Word has to be one the most popular of all the
programs in the Office suites. Word is word processing software that gives
you the ability to create, spell check, edit and format a document on the
screen before printing or even e-mailing documents. You can even
incorporate graphics into your Word documents. There are a few other
programs that can be found in the Office Suites. Microsoft Office has been
the standard in office and home business tools.
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