Chapter 2: Microsoft Office Applications

From this chapter, you will learn the skills that will become the foundation of your computer literacy.  You will understand how to create documents, presentations, and spreadsheets by using Microsoft Office.  Microsoft Office is a collection of programs, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.  These programs are packaged together to meet the basic needs of the business world.  Many of the buttons, terms, toolbars and menu bars that are used in Office will be used in many other programs so once you have a clear understanding of these programs your knowledge of other programs becomes much easier.  Below is a brief description of the programs you will be using in this chapter.

Microsoft Word is a word processing program and is one of the more basic programs used on computers.  With Word you can create professional looking documents such as: announcements, letters, resumes, and reports and revise them easily.  Word has many feature that will allow you to  design a document the way that you want because you can easily add borders, pictures, charts, and graphics.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program that allows you to produce professional looking presentations.  With PowerPoint you can include graphics, charts, sound, and links to the Internet to make your presentation design fit your needs.

Microsoft Excel is a powerful database program that will allow you to organize data, complete calculations, make decisions, and graph data.  


Microsoft Word Tool Bar

New Microsoft Word Tutorial 1 / Old Microsoft Word Tutorial 1

New Microsoft Word Tutorial 2 / Old Microsoft Word Tutorial 2

New Microsoft Word Tutorial 3 / Old Microsoft Word Tutorial 3

New Microsoft Word Tutorial 4 / Old Microsoft Word Tutorial 4

Microsoft Word Tutorial 5

Microsoft Word Tutorial 6

Microsoft Word Memo from the Boss


Main PowerPoint Project

Self PowerPoint Assignment

PowerPoint Tutorial Print Copy

PowerPoint Tutorial On-line Videos

Useful Sites for Self PowerPoint


 New Excel Tutorial 1 / Activity 1 / Old Excel Tutorial 1

New Excel Tutorial 2 / Activity 2 / Old Excel Tutorial 2  

Excel Tutorial 3

Excel Tutorial 4

Excel Tutorial 5

Excel Memo from the Boss


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