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Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are essential productivity tools within the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Word is a word processing program that allows users to create documents. It was developed in 1983. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that enables users to organize and calculate data. It features such as pivot tables and charts. Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation creation software that permits users to design slideshows with images, animations, and transitions. All three programs are widely used for business and educational purposes.

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MS Word Assignment

Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are essential productivity tools within the Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Word is a word processing program that allows users to create documents. It was developed in 1983. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that enables users to organize and calculate data. It features such as pivot tables and charts. Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation creation software that permits users to design slideshows with images, animations, and transitions. All three programs are widely used for business and educational purposes.

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Microsoft Office

MS Word
Microsoft Word is a user-friendly word processing tool released by Microsoft back on October
25,1983. It was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie who are both former
programmers of Xerox. They were hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to create Microsoft’s own
word processing software called Multi-Tool Word which was later renamed Microsoft Word. It
further features excellent document creation and editing tools that enable users to fully
customize their document and set specific formats. Microsoft Word is part of the Microsoft
Office package along with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, and more.
Microsoft Word is a Microsoft computer software or application designed for document
creation that allows users to easily prepare contracts, letters, agreements, and other types of
documents.

Features of Microsoft Word


 Create Text Documents
Microsoft Word is first and foremost a software product for creating text documents. Once you
open new blank MS Word doc, the first thing you’ll see is a blank sheet with a blinking insertion
point where you can type, format, or customize your words and sentences with different font
styles, font sizes, text alignments, and spacing.

 Insert Images and Clipart


You can insert images and clipart in your Microsoft Word documents since this feature allows
users to add visuals that supplements the content of their text document. They can be resized
and positioned anywhere in a document’s layout, and can even be used as backgrounds.

 Saving and Sharing Document Files


Saving and sharing documents is a core feature in MS Word. Users can save their documents in
their device storage or in OneDrive. If they save documents in OneDrive, they can share them
with other users simply by granting View access or Edit access.

 Adding Comments
Adding comments and suggestions is one of the features of MS Word Review Tab which
encourage collaboration. Other users with Edit access can write their remarks about the
document and discuss them with peers remotely.

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MS PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint software, since 1987, replaced the traditional old slide projectors with a
high-end slideshow presentation program. This virtual presentation program coined by Robert
Gaskins and Dennis Austin brings users the power to create and share presentations in
multimedia, and eventually, became a staple graphic information presenter tool for any
business, corporate enterprise, educational organization, group, or individual.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a dynamic slideshow presentation software where users can make,
design, and present creative electronic slides to convoy information. Along with Microsoft
Excel, Word, and other tools you can get with the Microsoft Office 365 subscription, PowerPoint
is a standard productivity tool you can install, leverage, and access for business, classroom, or
office use. Plus, this portal brings you streamed micro and macro feature such as word
processing, graphing, drawing, recording, transitioning, and other slideshow presentation tools.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a computer software developed by Microsoft where users can make
powerful slideshow presentation of any key information worth sharing or presenting.

Features of Microsoft PowerPoint


 Design Ideas
Under the “Design” tab in PowerPoint, select “Design Ideas” since it contains the fan-favorite
features of the Windows MS PPT software. From themes to variations of designs, the best part
is that the tool automatically offers you design options per slide according to the slide’s
content.

 Animations
Of course, PowerPoint is known for its creative animations such as how images or texts would
zoom in, zoom out, rotate, or exit playfully. Expect PPT to provide you with a range of
animations that are categorized into three-entrance animation.

 Slide Transitions
How a slide changes from one slide to another in a presentation is referred to as a slide
transition. And PPT brings you vast transition such as cut, reveal, wipe, uncover, and shapes.

 Images
Pictures often displays more connotations than words so you can definitely insert images on
PowerPoint presentations rather than text-based presentations alone.

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 Merge Shapes
The merge shape feature gives you easy adjustments to create the desired shape you need for
a team logo, app design, and more. And you are guaranteed to come up with uniform shapes
rather than depending on freehand drawing alone.

 Videos
Besides images, videos are essential to keep presentations more entertaining such as
embedding YouTube videos into a PPT presentation. Just make sure to consider the size per
video you add on a slide.

 Removing Image Background


Images with unwanted backgrounds can still be edited using PPT. Even without Photoshop,
PowerPoint lets you remove the background of an image by clicking the drawing format ribbon
and removing the background you don’t need after.

 Slide Comments
Viewers can provide comments and feedback about a PowerPoint presentation through the
slide comments. Provide this platform to set a learning experience for both the presenter and
the audience.

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MS Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the top spreadsheet applications in the software industry, with 750
million regular users. It was developed by Charles Simonyi(the same guy who created MS Word)
and was released by the Microsoft Corporation in 1985, exactly two years after the release of
Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft. Like all other spreadsheet
apps, Microsoft Excel has the tools that enable users to organize data in a systematic manner
and with the use of formulas. However, its features are more flexible-offering various ways to
arrange tables, charts, grids, rows, columns, and other visual aid tools. Microsoft Excel belongs
of a family of Microsoft 365 products such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft
Publisher, and more.
Microsoft Excel is a product of Microsoft Office that quickly became a powerhouse spreadsheet
program with a complete set of spreadsheet editing and customization tools for users to easily
create tables, charts, graphs, and grinds that organize data cohesively.

Features of Microsoft Excel


 Create Pivot Tables
Microsoft Excel is arguably most commonly used for creating pivot tables. As a gigantic
spreadsheet, it lays the groundwork for pivot table creation. Users won’t have to start from
scratch, needing only to adjust the spreadsheet’s rows, columns, and cells.

 Create Charts and Graphs


Microsoft Excel has every tool to create charts and graphs. Users can form them manually by
customizing the spreadsheet or inserting MS Excel’s free pre-made charts and graphs.

 Formulas
Microsoft Excel lets users use spreadsheet formulas)addition, subtraction, division, and
multiplication), which help calculate accurate results, mirror data from one cell to another,
perform a wide-range command, and much more. The challenge is familiarizing yourself with
the formulas, but once you’ve mastered them, preparing spreadsheet with statics becomes a
lot easier. There are a lot of features for MS Excel but those are which we use day to day.

Microsoft Excel- Uses, Purpose, Importance


 Easy Data Management

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As a spreadsheet application, Microsoft Excel is an excellent platform for data management.


You can use its tools for creating charts and graphs to organize data and store them for
safekeeping. For example, if you’re teacher, you can use MS Excel to calculate and store your
student’s grades for safekeeping.

 Convenient Calculations
MS Excel can automatically calculate results and statistics for you. Simply Encode the required
spreadsheet formulas, and Excel will do the rest. With its calculator features, Excel can produce
accurate results, even with large numbers.

 Accessible Free Templates


Microsoft Excel has free templates for creating monthly budget sheets, schedules, calendars,
and more, allowing users to start their spreadsheets quickly.

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