The desktop components of Microsoft Office

For my second post, I’ll be talking about what the desktop components of Microsoft Office are and what their programs include…Also, I’ll be describing on what these programs are meant for…Remember, this will all be included in full detail…

MICROSOFT WORD

Microsoft Word is a word processing software program. It can be used for typing in letters, doing reports and even other documents too.  Some of the tools you get from this program are:

• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Title Bar
• The Ruler
• The Text Area
• The Vertical and Horizontal and Vertical Scroll Bars
• The Status Bar

With Microsoft Word, there are so many things that you can do such as:

• Taking the text (highlighting and putting it in color)
• Changing the font and its sizes
• Moving around the document
• Having an understand of document views
• Having more basic features
• Finding a file and opening it into a saved document
• Changing the page orientation and its size
• Checking your spelling and grammar
• Taking the text (cutting and pasting, copying and pasting and dragging and dropping)
• Creating tables with columns and rows
• Adding other features such as ClipArt and WordArt

MICROSOFT EXCEL

Microsoft Excel is a electronic spreadsheet used for taking in data and organizing it into rows and columns. Also, it can be used for putting in calculations with mathematics. With the window that you get from Excel, it can kind of look similar to the one being shown on your screen from your desktop. Sometimes, the screen may not be looked as exactly like the screen before. But in the 2010 version of Excel, how the window can display is that how it can look depending on the size of your window. Some of the tools included in Microsoft Excel are:

• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Title Bar
• The Formula Bar
• The Status Bar
• The Ribbon
• The Auto Sum Button
• The Name Box
• The Insert Function Button

With Microsoft Excel, you can do many things with it such as:

• Having a backstage view
• Having an introduction to worksheets
• Knowing about worksheets (How to move around with them, how to delete and insert them and how to rename them)
• Taking the cells (selecting and deleting them, deleting content from them, selecting multiple cells, merging them and going quickly to them)
• Inserting columns and modifying them
• Inserting rows
• Taking the text (formatting and wrapping within the cells)
• Inserting rows
• Creating formulas with cell references
• Putting in calculation operators in cell formulas
• Performing operations in formulas with Microsoft Excel
• Creating charts, spreadsheets and PivotTables
• Saving files

MICROSOFT ACCESS

Microsoft Access is a program that is used for creating databases and management. For those who want to understand Access, they should first understand the databases. Some of the tools you only get from Microsoft Access are:

• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Ribbon
• The Primary Key Button
• The Navigation Pane

With Microsoft Access, there are several types of stuff you can do such as:

• Creating tables, reports and forms
• Taking in databases (opening and closing them)
• Opening an existing database
• Closing a database
• Creating a database from a template
• Working with your environment of Access
• Taking in objects (working with them, opening them, renaming them and saving them)
• Knowing what queries are
• Having an understand on examples of different types of criteria

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

Microsoft PowerPoint is a managing program that can allow you to create professional looking presentations in a quick and easy way. With Microsoft PowerPoint, it can have a design of taking in slides for creating and editing and either have transparencies or presentations on-screen. Two of the tools you get from Microsoft PowerPoint are:

• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Ribbon

With this program,  there are a whole variety of things you can do such as:

• Taking in slides (working with them, inserting them, deleting and moving them)
• Knowing about slides
• Having layouts of slides
• Having a view of slides
• Having a backstage view
• Taking a view from an outline of your presentation
• Applying a theme to your presentation
• Taking a theme and applying it to your presentation
• Taking in transitions and putting them into your presentation
• Inserting in images and text from ClipArt and WordArt
• Putting in animations with text and objects
• Animations (how to apply them and how to reorder them)
• Using the animation pane
• Taking your presentation and using it to start off a slide show
• Viewing the Print pane
• Knowing how to print off your presentation
• Having effect options

MICROSOFT PUBLISHER

Microsoft Publisher is a kind of program that can help you to create, design and publish professional-looking marketing and communication materials within business publishing. With Microsoft Publisher, you can create materials and put them out for print, e-mail and the Web with a task-based environment which can guide you from any concept to a finalized delivery in-home without a expertise in production and professional design. What you get with this program is just the ribbon tool.

With this publishing software, you can choose from several designs such as for:

• Newsletters
• Brochures
• Cards (business cards, postcards and greeting cards)
• Media labels
• Web sites

and many many more…

More about Publisher is not only you can create publishing materials like newsletters and brochures but it can provide templates that are pre-designed for a large range of publication types including gift certificates, flyers, resumes and even catalogs.

Some additional stuff that people can know about in Microsoft Publisher are:

• The Viewing Tools
• Rulers
• Baselines
• Boundries
• Guides
• Margins
• Page layout and size
• Knowing how to create a new publication from a template
• Knowing on how to create a publication
• Having a understand on working with the environment with Publisher
• Knowing all about Publisher