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Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft, first announced in 1988, that includes programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is designed for office use, providing tools for document creation, data analysis, and presentations, available in various versions for different platforms, including desktop and online. Key features of its applications include document editing in Word, data organization in Excel, and multimedia presentations in PowerPoint.

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Module 17 Empowerment 12 (1)

Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft, first announced in 1988, that includes programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is designed for office use, providing tools for document creation, data analysis, and presentations, available in various versions for different platforms, including desktop and online. Key features of its applications include document editing in Word, data organization in Excel, and multimedia presentations in PowerPoint.

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NAME: ___________________________ (ALWAYS WRITE YOU NAME)

SECTION : _________________
Module No.: 17 Empowerment Technology
Date: February 28 – March 4, 2022

Introduction to MS Office
Microsoft Office (or simply Office) is a family of
server software, and services developed by
Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on
August 1, 1988, in Las Vegas. The first version of
Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office
applications have grown substantially closer with
shared features such as a common spell checker,
data integration etc. Office is produced in several
versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original, and
most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for PCs running the Windows, Linux
and Mac OS operating systems. Office Online is a version of the software that runs within a web
browser, while Microsoft also maintains Office apps for Android and iOS.

Microsoft Office is a suite of desktop productivity applications that is designed specifically to be


used for office or business use. It is a proprietary product of Microsoft Corporation and was first
released in 1990. Microsoft Office is available in 35 different languages and is supported by
Windows, Mac and most Linux variants. It mainly consists of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access,
OneNote, Outlook and Publisher applications.

Microsoft Office was primarily created to automate the manual office work with a collection of
purpose-built applications.
Each of the applications in Microsoft Office serves as specific knowledge or office domain such
as:

1. Microsoft Word: Helps users in creating text


documents.
2. Microsoft Excel: Creates simple to complex
data/numerical spreadsheets.
3. Microsoft PowerPoint: Stand-alone
application for creating professional
multimedia presentations.
4. Microsoft Access: Database management
application.
5. Microsoft Publisher: Introductory application for creating and publishing marketing
materials.
6. Microsoft OneNote: Alternate to a paper notebook, it enables an user to neatly organize
their notes.
Besides desktop applications, Microsoft Office is available to use online or from cloud under
a lighter (Office Web Apps) and full (Office 365) version. As of 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 is
the latest version, available in 4 different variants including Office Home Student 2016,
Office Home Business 2016 and Office Professional 2 and the online/cloud Office 365 Home
Premium.

Important Features of Ms-Word

Ms-Word not only supports word processing features but also DTP features. Some of the
important features of Ms-Word are listed below:

i) Using word you can create the document and edit them later, as and when required,
by adding more text, modifying the existing text, deleting/moving some part of it.
ii) Changing the size of the margins can reformat complete document or part of text.

iii) Font size and type of fonts can also be changed. Page numbers and Header and
Footer can be included.
iv) Spelling can be checked and correction can be made automatically in the entire
document. Word count and other statistics can be generated.
v) Text can be formatted in columnar style as we see in the newspaper. Text boxes
can be made.
vi) Tables can be made and included in the text.

vii) Word also allows the user to mix the graphical pictures with the text. Graphical
pictures can either be created in word itself or can be imported from outside like
from Clip Art Gallery.
viii) Word also has the facility of macros. Macros can be either attached to some
function/special keys or to a tool bar or to a menu.
ix) It also provides online help of any option.
Introduction to Ms-Power Point

A PowerPoint presentation is a presentation created using Microsoft PowerPoint software.


The presentation is a collection of individual slides that contain information on a topic.
PowerPoint presentations are commonly used in business meetings and for training and
educational purposes. Microsoft PowerPoint is a software product used to perform
computerbased presentations. There are various circumstances in which a presentation is
made: teaching a class, introducing a product to sell, explaining an organizational structure,
etc. The preparation and the actual delivery of each are quite different. PowerPoint typically
comes with a set of preloaded themes for you to choose from. These can range from simple
color changes to complete format layouts with accompanying font text. Themes can be
applied through the whole presentation or a single slide. Using the page setup allows you to
optimize the presentation for the display size; for instance, you should use a larger screen
ratio when displaying on a projector compared to a computer screen.

Features
PowerPoint software features and formatting options include a wizard that walks you
through the presentation creation process. Design templates---prepackaged background
designs and font styles that will be applied to all slides in a presentation. When viewing a
presentation, slide progression can be manual, using the computer mouse or keyboard to
progress to the next slide, or slides can be set up to progress after a specified length of
time.
Slide introductions and transitions can be added to the slides.

Introduction to Ms-Excel
Microsoft Excel is a general-purpose electronic spreadsheet used to organize, calculate,
and analyze data. The task you can complete with Excel ranges from preparing a simple
family budget, preparing a purchase order, or managing a complex accounting ledger for a
medium size business.

Excel Features

There are a number of features that are available in Excel to make your task easier. Some
of the main features are:

AutoFormat - lets you to choose many preset table formatting options.

1. AutoSum - helps you to add the contents of a cluster of adjacent cells.


2. List AutoFill - automatically extends cell formatting when a new item is added to the
end of a list.
3. AutoShapes toolbar- will allow you to draw a number of geometrical shapes, arrows,
flowchart elements, stars and more. With these shapes you can draw your own graphs.
4. Drag and Drop - feature will help you to reposition the data and text by simply dragging
the data with the help of mouse.
5. Charts - features will help you in presenting a graphical representation of your data in
the form of Pie, Bar, Line charts and more.
6. PivotTable - flips and sums data in seconds and allows you to perform data analysis
and generating reports like periodic financial statements, statistical reports, etc. You can
also analyse complex data relationships graphically.
7. Shortcut Menus - commands that are appropriate to the task that you are doing appear
by clicking the right mouse button.

GENERALIZATION:
1. What is the purpose of Microsoft Office in our daily lives?

2. What Microsoft Office program you frequently used? Why is it important to you?

3. State some problems you heve been encountered while using Microsoft Office and what
are solution for those problems.

4. What do you think the specific feature that the Microsoft Office have that the other
programs dont have?

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