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PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Publisher

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, and mobile operating systems. It is one of the most widely used presentation programs, with approximately 30 million presentations created daily. It allows users to create presentations with text, images, and animations.
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PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Publisher

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, and mobile operating systems. It is one of the most widely used presentation programs, with approximately 30 million presentations created daily. It allows users to create presentations with text, images, and animations.
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Microsoft PowerPoint

It is apresentation program developed by the companyMicrosoftfor


operating systemsWindows, macOSand lately forAndroidyiOSIt comes integrated
in theoffice suite callMicrosoft Office as another element, that can
take advantage of the benefits that the other team members offer to obtain
an optimal result.
PowerPoint is one of the most widely used presentation programs. It is
widely used in different fields of teaching, business, among others.
According to Microsoft figures, approximately 30,000,000 are made every day.
presentations with PowerPoint (PPT).
It is a program designed to make presentations with outlined text, so
such as slide presentations, text animations, and pre-designed images or
imported from images on the computer. Different designs can be applied to it.
source, template, and animation. This type of presentations tend to be more practical than the
ofMicrosoft Word.
With PP and the appropriate printing devices, many things can be done.
types of results related to presentations: transparencies, documents
printed materials for the attendees of the presentation, notes and outlines for the presenter, or
standard 35mm slides.

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel, MS Excel or simply Excel is asoftware of
applicationpublished by the company Microsoft, which provides digital support for tasks
accounting, financial, organizational, and programming, throughspreadsheets.
Part of the Microsoft Office package, which contains various office programs.
howMicrosoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, etc.

Excel is possibly the most popular program in its field all around the world,
published in different versions and updates since its earliest appearance in
1985.

Among its capabilities is the management of tables, formats, and formulas.


mathematics, as well as pre-programmed functions, and their corresponding conversion to
graphics of various nature.

Its name was subject to controversy when another company, which already owned a
software called Excel, won a lawsuit against Microsoft forcing them to use its
name as part of the application, thus giving birth to MS Excel, often referred to
through the use of the letters XL, due to their sound in English. Over time, not
however,MicrosoftI would buy the brand from your rival company and conquer all forms.
the name of the product.
This program belongs to Microsoft under commercial use license and works
under the operational environments ofWindowsMacintosh and some others, in various
languages. However, there are parallel versions such as the code package
open Excel or Libre Excel belonging a Open LibreOffice
Office respectively.

HistoryofMicrosoftExcel

The direct predecessor of Excel was a spreadsheet management program.


published by Microsoft in 1982, named Multiplan, which was extremely popular in
certain systems, but not enough to surpass Lotus 1-2-3 from Lotus Development,
acompanycompetitor bought by IBM in 1996.

In 1985, the first version of Excel for Mac was released, and the first forWindowsin
1987, giving the application the advantage over Lotus 1-2-3, which took a long time to migrate.
towards that virtual environment. Thus, Excel gradually became the program of
the quintessential spreadsheet for PC, even surpassing the popular Quattro Pro
Borland company.

Since then, Excel has offered its audience an updated version every two
years, more or less, until reaching the current versions, which are v16.0 (Excel
In the case of theOperating SystemOS/2, the current version is 3.0, from 1991.

WhatisMicrosoftExcelusedfor?
As it has been said, Excel is a spreadsheet system, that is, of worksheets.
information management in an orderly and systematic manner, allowing for the
automation of logical operations (arithmetic, geometric, etc.) and facilitating it for
life to accountants, financial professionals, information managers, and even those who work
with lists.

It is a versatile application, especially useful for creating tables, graphs and


other operations for representing information, based on a virtually matrix
infinite rows and columns where they can be introduced and customizeddata.
In addition, Excel has a system of macros or automated formulas that allow
also their use for purposes ofalgorithmsyprogramming.

Microsoft Publisher
(Previously Microsoft Office Publisher) is the application ofself-publishingofMicrosoftIt is often
considered as a beginner or entry-level program, which differs from the
word processorMicrosoft Wordemphasis is placed on the design and layout of the pages,
more than in the process and correction of texts.
Microsoft Word
It is a word processing software, one of the most widely used when it comes to
to work with digital documents today.

How did Word come about? Word is a word processing programtextthat was born from
the hand of IBM around the year 1981.

Word is aprogramwhich is practically present in all the teams of


the people who havecomputerat your disposal being this a processor
quite simple. This program is part of the Office Package (just like theMicrosoft
Excelfor the management of spreadsheets) of all the computers that have
installed Microsoft Windows as the operating system.

FeaturesandcharacteristicsofMicrosoftWord

Allows theuserwrite texts, monographs, articles in an orderly manner,


among others. You can choose the font format (according to the style of what I want to do)
highlighting in bold or italic and in a certain size using visible commands or icons.
At the same time, it allows for the size of the sheet and its layout to be configured, already
sea vertical and horizontal.

It is worth highlighting that Word is not just a simple word processor, as it enables the user.
to insert images that enhance what is being written or to create graphics
of pie charts to demonstrate statistics through representation of the
percentages (%) graphically, for example.

Likewise, Microsoft Word is not only useful for its variety of formats and applications.
but the spell checker proves essential as a tool because it allows
that allows the user to see if they made a typo or a grammar and syntax error, as it highlights in
red or blue words in case the program detects possible spelling errors and/or
grammatical. Likewise, one should not rely one hundred percent on it as it has a
margin of error.

In addition, Microsoft Word can interact with other programs in the Package
Office, as is the case with Excel, allowing graphs to be pasted anddatawhat
come fromspreadsheetsin a simple way.

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