Microsoft Office Overview

Microsoft Office is the most efficient suite of applications for document creation, communication and business information analysis. For many functions, the business platform has evolved from paper to the Web. Microsoft Office extends desktop productivity to the web, streamlining the way you work and making it easier to share, access and analyze information so you get better results.

Office offers a multitude of new features. Of particular importance for this release are the features that affect the entire suite. These Office-wide, or shared features hold the key to the new realm of functionality enabled by Office. Office offers a new Web-productivity work style that integrates core productivity tools with the Web to streamline the process of sharing information and working with others.

It makes it easier to use an organization’s intranet to access vital business information and provides innovative analysis tools that help users make better, timelier business decisions. Office delivers new levels of resiliency and intelligence, enabling users and organizations to get up and running quickly, stay working and achieve great results with fewer resources.

DESIGN GOALS OF MS-OFFICE:
1. A COMMON USER INTERFACE:

  • While learning one application of the suite you get to learn the operational basics of the other applications, while maintaining some uniqueness in the applications.
  • Consistency in MS-Office applications is in the form of :

i. Tool –Bars
ii. Menus
iii. Dialog Boxes
iv. Customizable features and operational features are similar too.

2. QUICK ACCESS TO OTHER APPLICATIONS

  • The MS-Office provides the Microsoft Office Short cut Bar ,which is used for the following:

i. Create a new file based on templates and wizards
ii. Opening existing files and automatically launching the related applications
iii. Add tasks, make appointments, record tasks and add contacts and journal entries.
iv. Create a new Outlook Message.
v. Switch between and launch Microsoft Office Applications.

3. SHARING DATA ACROSS APPLICATIONS

  • Microsoft Office Provides several means of sharing data between applications:

i. Copying – copies the data from the source application to the target applications using the clipboard.
ii. Linking-links the data from the source document to the target document and saves with the source document.
iii. Embedding- embeds the data from the source document to the target document and saves with the source document.

  • Microsoft Office extends the data sharing beyond application integration by providing workgroup integration with the Microsoft Outlook. Users can mail documents, spreadsheets, presentations and data files from within the source applications.

4. PROVIDING A COMMON LANGUAGE:

  • Providing the common language has been a more challenging goal from Microsoft Office. It provides a common macro programming language for all the applications –Visual Basic for the Applications.
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