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Microsoft Office is a powerful set of integrated applications, consisting of
Excel (spreadsheet), Outlook (personal information management), PowerPoint
(presentation graphics), and Word (word processing). The power of MS Office is
that the component programs all have a similar look and feel. The menus and toolbars
are similar in all the programs. The commands, by and large, are the same.
Learn one program and you're well on your way to learning them all. |
The real power of Microsoft Office is that the programs are integrated. What you create in
one program you can share with the others through dynamic data exchange or
object linking and embedding. Here are two examples of what we mean:
With Office, the
whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Microsoft Office 2003, the latest edition of the Microsoft Office suite, was
released October 21, 2003. It comes in four versions. The table shows what they are and what
programs each version includes.
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Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition
2003 |
Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word |
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Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 |
Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word |
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Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
2003 |
Excel, Outlook with Business Contact
Manager, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word |
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Office Professional Edition 2003 |
Access, Excel, Outlook with Business
Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word |
Three other programs, FrontPage 2003 (website creation), Project 2003 (project management), and
Visio 2003 (business
graphics), are members of the Microsoft Office
System, but not actually Office programs. This means they look and feel
like Office programs, and can exchange data with Office programs, but
none is included in any version of Office.
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Is Microsoft Office "all business?" Do the people who write the
programs believe in "all work and no play?" Follow the link on the
left to our collection of
Office Easter Eggs, and you'll see that the people who
brought you Microsoft Office know how to let their hair down just like the rest
of us. |
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You'll work faster and more efficiently if you use the keyboard rather than
the mouse to perform most common tasks. Follow the link to our tables of Office Shortcut
Keys. You'll find something useful, whatever program you use. |
Box shots reprinted with permission
from Microsoft Corporation.
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