Office Applications
Application Summary In this post, I will discuss four of the applications in the Microsoft Office suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. These applications were used to document one day of my life. Word to create a journal entry, Excel to calculate the percentage of time used for each activity, and PowerPoint to present those results in a presentation. Microsoft Access was not used in the documentation of my day, but its usefulness was reviewed. Word Microsoft Word is a word processor used to create formatted text compared to a text editor is only used to enter text. "A word processor is a common computer application for creating formatted text. The formatted text refers to features of a document like margins, text size, bold text, italicized text, colors, number of columns, etc." (Vahid and Lysecky. Sec. 5.1). Microsoft Word typically has a doc file extension but can be saved to many different formats. Word can be used to create...