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 INTRODUCTION

• MICROSOFT OFFICE IS A FAMILY OF CLIENT SOFTWARE, SERVER SOFTWARE,

AND SERVICES DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT.

• OVER THE YEARS, OFFICE APPLICATIONS HAVE GROWN SUBSTANTIALLY

CLOSER WITH SHARED FEATURES SUCH AS A COMMON SPELL CHECKER, OLE
 DATA INTEGRATION AND VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS SCRIPTING
LANGUAGE.
 HISTORY OF MICROSOFT OFFICE
• IN 1975 BILL GATES AND PAUL G. ALLEN, TWO BOYHOOD FRIENDS FROM SEATTLE, CONVERTED BASIC, A POPULAR
MAINFRAME COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, FOR USE ON AN EARLY PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC), THE
ALTAIR. 

• DURING THE NEXT FEW YEARS, THEY REFINED BASIC AND DEVELOPED OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES.

•  IN 1980 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (IBM) ASKED MICROSOFT TO PRODUCE THE ESSENTIAL
SOFTWARE, OR OPERATING SYSTEM, FOR ITS FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER, THE IBM PC. 

• MICROSOFT PURCHASED AN OPERATING SYSTEM FROM ANOTHER COMPANY, MODIFIED IT, AND RENAMED IT MS-DOS.

• MS-DOS WAS RELEASED WITH THE IBM PC IN 1981. MOST MANUFACTURERS OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS LICENSED
MS-DOS AS THEIR OPERATING SYSTEM, GENERATING VAST REVENUES FOR MICROSOFT;

• BY THE EARLY 1990S IT HAD SOLD MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES OF THE PROGRAMMICROSOFT DEEPENED ITS
POSITION IN OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH WINDOWS, A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE WHOSE THIRD VERSION,
RELEASED IN 1990, GAINED A WIDE FOLLOWING. 
 MICROSOFT WORD
• MICROSOFT WORD (OR SIMPLY WORD) IS A WORD PROCESSOR DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT. 
• IT WAS FIRST RELEASED ON OCTOBER 25, 1983 UNDER THE NAME MULTI-TOOL WORD FOR XENIX
 SYSTEMS.

• COMMERCIAL VERSIONS OF WORD ARE LICENSED AS A STANDALONE PRODUCT OR AS A COMPONENT

OF MICROSOFT OFFICE, WINDOWS RT OR THE DISCONTINUED MICROSOFT WORKS SUITE. 

• MICROSOFT WORD VIEWER AND OFFICE ONLINE ARE FREEWARE EDITIONS OF WORD WITH LIMITED

FEATURES.

• WITHOUT CONFIGURATION THE PROGRAM SAVED THE DOCUMENT IN A PROPRIETARY FILE FORMAT,

SO OTHER PROGRAMS COULD NOT OPEN IT.
USAGE OF MICROSOFT WORD
• MICROSOFT IS A GRAPHICAL WORD
PROCESSING PROGRAM THAT USERS CAN
TYPE WITH.

• IT IS MADE BY THE COMPUTER COMPANY

MICROSOFT.

• THE PURPOSE OF THE MS WORD IS TO

ALLOW THE USERS TO TYPE AND SAVE
DOCUMENTS. SIMILAR TO OTHER WORD
PROCESSORS, IT HAS HELPFUL TOOLS TO
MAKE DOCUMENTS. 

• HELPS YOU GREATLY TO CREATE AND

DESIGN BUSINESS CARDS, BROCHURES,
NEW LETTERS AND MANY MORE ITEMS THAT
ARE NEEDED. 
 MICROSOFT EXCEL
• MICROSOFT EXCEL IS A SOFTWARE PROGRAM PRODUCED BY MICROSOFT THAT ALLOWS
USERS TO ORGANIZE, FORMAT AND CALCULATE DATA WITH FORMULAS USING A
SPREADSHEET SYSTEM. THIS SOFTWARE IS PART OF THE MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE AND IS
COMPATIBLE WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS IN THE OFFICE SUITE.
• EXCEL IS A COMMERCIAL SPREADSHEET APPLICATION PRODUCED AND
DISTRIBUTED BY MICROSOFT FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND MAC OS. IT
FEATURES THE ABILITY TO PERFORM BASIC CALCULATIONS, USE
GRAPHING TOOLS, CREATE PIVOT TABLES AND CREATE MACROS.

• EXCEL HAS THE SAME BASIC FEATURES AS ALL SPREADSHEET

APPLICATIONS, WHICH USE A COLLECTION OF CELLS ARRANGED INTO
ROWS AND COLUMNS TO ORGANIZE AND MANIPULATE DATA. THEY CAN
ALSO DISPLAY DATA AS CHARTS, HISTOGRAMS AND LINE GRAPHS.

• EXCEL PERMITS USERS TO ARRANGE DATA SO AS TO VIEW VARIOUS

FACTORS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. VISUAL BASIC IS USED FOR
APPLICATIONS IN EXCEL, ALLOWING USERS TO CREATE A VARIETY OF
COMPLEX NUMERICAL METHODS. PROGRAMMERS ARE GIVEN AN OPTION
TO CODE DIRECTLY USING THE VISUAL BASIC EDITOR, INCLUDING
WINDOWS FOR WRITING CODE, DEBUGGING AND CODE MODULE
ORGANIZATION.
 POWER POINT
• MICROSOFT POWERPOINT IS A PRESENTATION PROGRAM, CREATED BY ROBERT
GASKINS AND DENNIS AUSTIN AT A SOFTWARE COMPANY NAMED FORETHOUGHT,
INC. 

• THE PRESENTATION IS A COLLECTION OF INDIVIDUAL SLIDES THAT CONTAIN

INFORMATION ON A TOPIC. 

• POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS ARE COMMONLY USED IN BUSINESS MEETINGS AND

FOR TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.
 USAGE OF POWER
POINT
• TEACHERS CAN USE POWERPOINT TO
TEACH LESSONS, CHAPTERS OF ANY BOOK
OR WHOLE BOOK IN ONE POWERPOINT
SLIDE.

•  YOU CAN CREATE A PRESENTATION FOR

SELF-LEARNING, YOU CAN CREATE TO SHOW
TO TEACHERS. YOU CAN CREATE IT FOR
SPEECH OR VARIOUS SCHOOL PROGRAMS
THANKYOU