Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Lets Talk about Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office has been around for a long time and is the market leader in Office applications. Microsoft Corporation developed desktop applications to support the end user in developing documents to support business or personal use.  There are many products and releases of the Microsoft Office Suite.  Some of the notable applications that are included in Microsoft Office 2007 edition are:

Word 
Is the most used application of the entire office suite. Microsoft Word allows you to create simple office documents without much skill and can be created very easily. Most people use word to write articles, documents, messages, school work, reports, and anything else you may think of. This application supports many different types of fonts, text sizes, and has built in html formatting.

Excel
Most business communicate with each other through numbers. The beauty about excel is that it is a two dimensional spreadsheet that is divided into rows and columns that allows you to store data. The data can be numerical, alphanumeric, dates, or anything you want. You can roll up data in groupings, do statistical analysis using functions, or almost anything you can think of. This is probably the most important application that any business can use.

Visio
The first thing that I have to say is that "I love Visio". I use Visio to to build process maps, data flow diagrams, flow charts, and organizational charts. This is a must have tool for any one involved in Business Process Engineering.

Outlook
This is a must have application for small businesses. This is a front end tool that allows you to download emails from the server and store all messages on to your local desktop. The software is great in managing emails, who sent the email, who you sent emails to, date sent, and relative importance.

Power Point
If you do a lot of presentations at the office or need to do a presentation for school, you would want to pick up a copy of power point. This software allows you to build presentations through designing slides that allow you to communicate your message to your audience. You can use animations, sounds, templates, or what ever you want. This is a very important tool for any future managers.

Project
Microsoft Project is the leader in managing project deliverables, milestones, resources, and network maps. There is currently no other application that is close in providing the same type of functionality of Project.