Introduction to the various applications in office

1. An office is the name given to a location where someone works or business takes place.

2. Office or Microsoft Office is a collection or package of software programs developed and published by Microsoft. Office is commonly used in the business and educational environment, for creating word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Although this collection is commonly referred to as Office, it is more appropriate to include the version of Office, like Office 2003 or Office 2010.

An Office Suite is a collection of office related software programs that are all bundled together. 

various applications in office

• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft OneNote
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Word

• Microsoft Access

In general, access refers to the permission to use. If you've been given the rights to use a computer or service you have authorized access, usually granted by entering your username and password.

• Microsoft Excel

Excel is a software program from Microsoft that is part of the Microsoft Office suite of software programs. Excel is capable of creating and editing spreadsheets that are saved with a .xls or .xlsx file extension. General uses of Excel include cell-based calculation, pivot tables, and various graphing tools. For instance, with an Excel spreadsheet, you could create a monthly budget, track business expenses, or sort and organize large amounts of data.

• Microsoft OneNote

OneNote is a Microsoft collaboration tool for saving text, images, tables, audio, and other media in a free-form style document that can then be viewed over the Internet by other users of OneNote. With OneNote you can insert anything anywhere on a document items and is not limited to a set format like a word processor.

• Microsoft Outlook

Outlook is an E-mail software program by Microsoft that enables users to send and receive e-mail on their computer. There are two versions of Outlook; Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook.

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Sometimes abbreviated as PP or PPT, PowerPointis a Microsoft presentation software program that creates a slide show of important notes to display during a presentation. The picture below is an example of what Microsoft PowerPoint looks like and a description of each of the major areas in PowerPoint noted in red.

• Microsoft Publisher

Publisher is a Microsoft software desktop publishing program that is included with Microsoft Office suites or as a stand alone program.

• Microsoft Visio

Visio is a program that falls under the Microsoft Office Suite of products. It is used for many things that utilize layouts, diagrams, and charts. The graphics that are used in Visio are standard images utilized by flowcharts, decision diagrams, playbooks, and even network diagraming. It even has enough diagrams to make planning a room layout for a conference accurate and simple. Microsoft purchased the Visio program from Visio Corporation (known earlier as the Shapeware Corporation) in2000 and immediately began incorporating it into the Microsoft Office Suite of products.

• Microsoft Word

In general, a word is a single element of speech that is typically separated by spaces and helps form a sentence. For example, this sentence contains seven words. The English language contains several hundred thousand different words and Computer Hope lists over 11,000 computer related words in its computer dictionary.