Microsoft Office is a suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft, first announced in 1988. It includes essential tools like Word for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations, and Outlook for email communication, while enabling collaboration across programs. The suite also supports customization and the integration of automated features for enhanced productivity in business environments.

1. PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
MICHAEL M. CALUB

2. ABOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE
History
an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first
announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas.
Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of business software applications for Windows and
Macintosh computers. Office includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics
and email communication programs that provide functionality which is commonly used to
run a business office.

3. TYPES OF MICROSOFT OFFICE
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook

4. MICROSOFT OFFICE
Microsoft Office includes Microsoft Word for word processing functionality. The
program uses a menu interface to provide many advanced word processing
features that can be used easily by business and home users. Word includes
templates to design documents used routinely in office environments such as
sales letters, mailing label formats and invoices. Word documents can contain
graphics, sound and video to create multimedia reports.

5. MICROSOFT EXCEL
Microsoft Office includes Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheet solutions for
home and business use. A spreadsheet is an electronic grid of rows and columns
that can be used to enter, organize and calculate data. Separate spreadsheets
can be linked to consolidate data across categories such as time, function, or
geographic region. Templates for income statements, balance sheets and
expense reports are featured within the program. Excel spreadsheets allow you
to analyze and report on large amounts of data quickly and easily.

6. POWERPOINT
The Microsoft Powerpoint application is used to create and deliver presentations
(Presentation Graphics) that can include text, graphics, sound and video.
Powerpoint presentations can be delivered in a slide show format using a
computer and projection screen, emailed to other users for review or delivered
remotely over the Internet.

7. MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Microsoft Outlook Express is used to create, send and receive e-mail
communications. The program automates the linking and embedding of
spreadsheets, documents and presentations composed in other programs within
the Office software suite. The business version of Microsoft Office includes
Microsoft Outlook which also features personal information management tools
such as calendar, journals and task management.

8. COLLABORATION & CUSTOMIZATION
The applications in the Microsoft Office application suite are designed to share
information easily between programs. Spreadsheet documents created in Excel
can be linked or embedded within Microsoft Word documents, and emailed to
other users using Outlook. Microsoft Office also offers a platform of servers
and web services to enable collaboration between remote users. Microsoft
Office is also a development platform to build custom applications using Visual
Basic for Applications and other programming languages.