Microsoft Office Suite
Room 217
Instructor: Ms. McGrew
Microsoft OneNote
Description
OneNote is a free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It can gather users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries and share them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet. OneNote is available as an application for Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian. Notes can also be edited from a web browser.
Many of us carry a notebook or notepad around to take notes for business, school, or personal projects. But can you easily find — and decipher — the info you need? Is it convenient to share your notes with others?
With Microsoft Office OneNote, the easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program where you can capture ideas and information in electronic form, it is easy to take control. Insert files or Web content in full-color, searchable format or as icons that you can click to access. Say goodbye to your notepad!
OneNote is a free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It can gather users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries and share them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet. OneNote is available as an application for Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian. Notes can also be edited from a web browser.
Many of us carry a notebook or notepad around to take notes for business, school, or personal projects. But can you easily find — and decipher — the info you need? Is it convenient to share your notes with others?
With Microsoft Office OneNote, the easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program where you can capture ideas and information in electronic form, it is easy to take control. Insert files or Web content in full-color, searchable format or as icons that you can click to access. Say goodbye to your notepad!
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processing program that allows users to create professional documents such as resumes, letters, fax cover sheets, reports, legal documents, brochures, manuals and more. It is an efficient tool for students, business owners and even working individuals to have on their computers.
History
On September 29, 1983, the first version of Microsoft word came on the market. Its original name was "Multi-Tool Word." Several other versions followed, including Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007.
Word allows users to type, format and edit text to create documents that can be printed or viewed electronically.
Features
Benefits
Fun Fact
Word allows users to type, format and edit text to create documents that can be printed or viewed electronically.
Features
- The formatting styles feature available in Word make it easy to set up an entire document. Formatting styles include everything from font, paragraph settings and alignment. Users can also create custom fonts in Word.
Benefits
- Microsoft Word is an affordable word processing application. Word offers numerous tools and features, and many users are familiar and comfortable with its Microsoft toolbars.
Fun Fact
- Most users are unaware that Word has a random text generator. Typing "=rand (number of sentences,number of paragraphs)" will generate a series of random text. For example, "=rand (2,2)" will provide two paragraphs, each two sentences long, of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Microsoft Excel
Part of the Microsoft Office Suite, Excel is a spreadsheet application that allows users to store, manipulate and graph data. It includes formulas, lets users make their own formulas and even uses programming (Visual Basic) to personalize every bit of the program.
History
Charts
Microsoft Excel can store extremely large amounts of data--up to 1 million rows by 16,000 columns.
- Microsoft originally marketed a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in 1982, which was very popular on CP/M systems, but on MS-DOS systems it lost popularity to Lotus 1-2-3.
- This promoted development of a new spreadsheet called Excel which started with the intention to 'do everything 1-2-3 does and do it better'.
- The first version of Excel was released for the Mac in 1985 and the first Windows version was released in November 1987.
Charts
- Excel creates professional-looking charts and graphs with 3-D effects, shadowing and even transparency.
- PivtotTables help you find answers to questions quickly, easily and responsively. You can drag and drop fields to make change the table's view.
- With conditional formatting, you can change the way a "cell" (the intersection of a column and a row) looks based on the information contained. For example, you might have cells with a negative value have red text while positive values had black text.
- If you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with your Excel, you can change your Excel spreadsheet into an HTML file so that anyone can view the data using a web browser.
Microsoft Excel can store extremely large amounts of data--up to 1 million rows by 16,000 columns.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Description
PowerPoint is often used to create business presentations, but can also be used for educational or informal purposes. The presentations are comprised of slides, which may contain text, images, and other media, such as audio clips and movies. Sound effects and animated transitions can also be included to add extra appeal to the presentation. However, overusing sound effects and transitions will probably do more to annoy your audience than draw their attention. (Yes, we have all heard the car screeching noise enough times for one lifetime.)
History
The first version of PowerPoint - first called Presenter, but later renamed because of copyright issues - was developed by Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin, a University of California-Berkeley PhD student in 1984. The start-up he worked for at the time was acquired by Microsoft soon after in 1987, and the first version of the software under the Microsoft banner was released for Windows 3.0 in 1990. When Microsoft purchased it, PowerPoint was already a mass success, selling more on its first day of release for the Macintosh OS than any other program in history at the time.
PowerPoint is often used to create business presentations, but can also be used for educational or informal purposes. The presentations are comprised of slides, which may contain text, images, and other media, such as audio clips and movies. Sound effects and animated transitions can also be included to add extra appeal to the presentation. However, overusing sound effects and transitions will probably do more to annoy your audience than draw their attention. (Yes, we have all heard the car screeching noise enough times for one lifetime.)
History
The first version of PowerPoint - first called Presenter, but later renamed because of copyright issues - was developed by Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin, a University of California-Berkeley PhD student in 1984. The start-up he worked for at the time was acquired by Microsoft soon after in 1987, and the first version of the software under the Microsoft banner was released for Windows 3.0 in 1990. When Microsoft purchased it, PowerPoint was already a mass success, selling more on its first day of release for the Macintosh OS than any other program in history at the time.
Uses
PowerPoint is presentation software from Microsoft. Although typically used to display "slides" during face-to-face meetings and presentations, it is also used on the web and with distance education technologies in several ways:
- Slides that were used in a live presentation may be given to others for later review. This often occurs by sending the PowerPoint presentation as an attachment to an email or by posting the presentation on the web and providing a link to the presentation.
- PowerPoint presentations may be integrated with live audio or video broadcasts or conferences. Slides are synchronized with the instructors overall presentation. This can occur easily with many web and electronic communication technologies (e.g., Breeze, PolyCom, satellite)
- PowerPoint presentations may be integrated with pre-recorded audio presentations that are viewed in an anytime, anywhere manner from the web. These presentations could also be emailed to students as a very large attachment.
- PowerPoint presentations might be used as a standalone lesson without audio.
Presenting
When presenting a PowerPoint presentation, the presenter may choose to have the slides change at preset intervals or may decide to control the flow manually. This can be done using the mouse, keyboard or a remote control. The flow of the presentation can be further customized by having slides load completely or one bullet at a time. For example, if the presenter has several bullet points on a page, he might have individual points appear when he clicks the mouse. This allows more interactivity with the audience and brings greater focus to each point.
Fun Fact
Although PowerPoint has the aforementioned benefits, some argue that PowerPoint has negatively impacted society. The terms "Death by PowerPoint" and "PowerPoint Hell" refer to the poor use of the software. Many large companies and branches of the government use PowerPoint as a way to brief employees on important issues that they must make decisions about. Opponents of PowerPoint argue that reducing complex issues to bulleted points is detrimental to the decision making process; in other words, because the amount of information in a presentation must be condensed, viewing a PowerPoint presentation does not give one enough detailed information to make a truly informed decision.