Microsoft Office 2010By

Carol J. Laferty

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Microsoft Suite 2010 contains:◦Word – Word Processing◦Excel - Spreadsheet◦PowerPoint – Presentation or Slideshow

◦Access - Database◦Publisher – Desktop Publishing◦Outlook – Email

Microsoft Office Applications

Programs

$124.54 at Walmart

If you are associated with Morehead State University as a student, staff, faculty, you can get this software at a greatly reduced price.

Word processing – type letters, flyers, reports, make tables of information.

The list is endless. You can also work with pictures in Word.

Let’s look at that.

Word

Excel is a spreadsheet application. You work with numbers and formulas. Useful for accountant-types, teachers for

averaging grades, business owners to name a few.

You can also use it for databases and lists. Labels for mailing can be printed from it

also.

Excel

Access is a database application. Keep records of names, addresses,

inventories—anything you want to keep track of in an organized way.

You can do beautiful reports from your records and make mailing labels.

Here is a report that I often prepare for an organization I belong to:

Access

PowerPoint is a presentation or Slideshow application.

It is highly used in business, education, hospitals, sales—everywhere.

It is easy to do and things look very professional when presented.

You can add pictures, videos, sounds, Internet links.

Just about any form of media or communication can be added to a slide.

PowerPoint

Publisher is a desktop Publishing application.

Used by anyone wanting to do a flyer, brochure, newsletter, newspaper.

It has many built-in features to make formatting these type of publications much easier.

Publisher

Outlook is an email application. Many people use this application daily for

their email provider. It has many helpful features besides just

sending/receiving email. You can make Address book and distribution

lists to make mass mailings quite easy.

Outlook

A Distribution List for Email...