MICROSOFT OFFICE BASICS



Microsoft Office:

Microsoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS  X operating systems  introduced by Microsoft in 1989.  Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of office contained Microsoft Word,  Microsoft Excel,  and Microsoft Power Point.  Over the years,  spell checker. OLE data integration  and Microsoft Visual Basic for applications scripting language.  Microsoft also positions office as a development platform for line of business   software under the office business applications brand.  According to Forrester Research, as of June 2009, some version of Microsoft Office is used in 80 to 90 %   of organizations, with 64 % of organizations using office 2007.  The current version of Office 2010 for Windows, released on June 15, 2010, and office 2011 for Mac OS X, released October 26, 2010.

Microsoft Word :

Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft.  It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi Tool Word for Xenix systems, and 1 2 3...  Subsequent versions wee later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS in 1983, the apple Macintosh in 1984, the AT&T Unix PC in 1985, Atari ST in 1986, SCO UNIX, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows Suite.  The current versions are Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows and for Mac.





Microsoft Excel :

Microsoft Excel is a spread sheet application written and distributed by Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft windows and Mac OSX.  It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.  It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993.  Excel forms part of Microsoft office. The current versions are 2010 for Windows and 2011 for Mac.



Microsoft Power Point :

Microsoft PowerPoint is usually just called Power Point, and is a presentation program developed by Microsoft.  It is a part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system.  The current versions are Microsoft Power Point 2010 for Windows and for Mac.