You know, we here in the Philippines are drastically having our way in the tech industry, mostly in the world of computers. So i decided that this blog of mine would introduce or "re-introduce" some of the most common and not-so common basic softwares, needed or somewhat always used or being seek upon the net these days, specially by students, "barkadas" as we call it here in the Philippines, mainly the General Public.
Let's start with the most common, according to students, MICROSOFT OFFICE.
As the name states, it is mainly used for documents, encoding, data entry. MICROSOFT OFFICE is a collective name for many softwares included in it, namely WORD,EXCEL, POWERPOINT,PUBLISHER,OUTLOOK. These softwares do specific tasks and can do different things.
Microsoft WORD is basically a document or word processor.It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems, later versions were created for several companies such as IBM (1983), the Apple Computers(1984), the AT&T Unix PC (1985), Atari (1986), SCO Unix, and later to Microsoft Windows (1989), but in 2003 Microsoft created a new name for it and hence came Microsoft Office Word, or simply Microsoft Word. then came Microsoft Word 2007 and now Microsoft 2010 released.
Though tagged as a word processor, you still can create simple mods for your simple documents such as broders, margins, have some bullets, auto-numbering, insert some cropped pictures, highlight, indent, have a picture sent at the back of the text, having the effect of it floating, and so on and so forth..
To further enhance our understanding, try to look at this link i got from wikipedia, a link for the history, usage and capablilities of Microsoft word.
And for the next one, MICROSOFT EXCEL, is a spreadsheet style, that, as you can see above, have cells, columns and rows. These rows can accept data may it simple text, or mainly used for calculations, data entry for easier lookup and more. You can insert formulas to even make your calculations/computations more easier.
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet tool capable of performing calculations, analyzing data and integrating information from different programs. Microsoft Excel is comprised of organizational units called workbooks. A standard workbook contains worksheets and chart sheets. Worksheets perform calculations, store and organize data, present graphics and controls like a web page; they are extremely versatile. A worksheet in turn is comprised of millions of cells. The job of a cell is to store a formula that performs a calculation or communicates with some other application such as a database. They also store and present data. A chart sheet's job is to present a chart or graph developed from data stored on a worksheet.
Also to further elaborate the capabilities of EXCEL try looking here. Again from WIKIPEDIA.
MICROSOFT WORD CAPABILITIES-WIKIPEDIA
For Now I'll hang with these two components of the MICROSOFT OFFICE bundle. I'll tackle the other software on my next post, for the meantime, for those having difficulty looking for the software itself, check the following links.
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta
Download the 2007 release
and if you want 2007 released full
Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Groove 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Groove 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007
