Microsoft Office is a suite of desktop applications that was first announced in 1988 and included Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Word is a word processor that introduced the mouse and popularized the .doc format. PowerPoint is used to create slideshows with text, graphics, and other objects. Excel is a spreadsheet program that provided more functionality than previous versions. Access is a database management system that stores data in its own format. Word allows creating new documents from templates or existing files and keeping recently used documents visible. The Ribbon interface organizes commands under tabs for different tasks like writing or page layout.

1. Lecture No.4
Computer Skills

2. MS OFFICE

3. MS OFFICE
Microsoft Office is an office suite of
desktop applications, servers and
services for Microsoft
Windows and OS X operating
systems. It was first announced
by Bill Gates of Microsoft on 1
August 1988 at COMDEX in Las
Vegas. the first version of Office
contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft
Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

4. MS Word
Microsoft Word is a word
processor and was previously
considered the main program in
Office. Its proprietary DOC format is
considered a de facto standard.
It is available for the Windows and
OS X platforms. The first version of
Word, released in the autumn of
1983, was for the MS-DOS operating
system and had the distinction of
introducing the mouse to a broad
population.

5. MS Power Point
Microsoft PowerPoint is
a presentation program for Windows
and OS X. It is used to
create slideshows, composed of text,
graphics, and other objects, which
can be displayed on-screen and
shown by the presenter or printed
out on transparencies or slides.

6. MS Excel
Microsoft Excel is
a spreadsheet program. It is available
for the Windows and OS X platforms.
Microsoft released the first version
of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985, and
the first Windows version (numbered
2.05 to line up with the Mac and
bundled with a standalone Windows
run-time environment) in November
1987. It provided more functionality
than the previous version.

7. MS Access
Microsoft Access is a database
management system for Windows
that combines the relational
Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a
graphical user interface and
software-development tools.
Microsoft Access stores data in its
own format based on the Access Jet
Database Engine. It can also import
or link directly to data stored in
other applications and databases.

8. MS Word

10. Creating new documents
•Creating a new blank document
•Creating a new document from a template
•Using an online template
•Opening an existing document
•Adding 'new' and 'open' docs to quick taskbar
•Keeping recently used documents visible in list
(pinning)

11. Ribbon
The Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft
Office Fluent user interface, is designed to help
you quickly find the commands that you need to
complete a task. Commands are organized in
logical groups that are collected together under
tabs. Each tab relates to a type of activity, such
as writing or laying out a page.

13. Using The Ribbon
•Working with the ribbon.
•Minimize the ribbon.
•Showing the ribbon.