PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Publisher
PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Publisher
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.
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
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.
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.
FeaturesandcharacteristicsofMicrosoftWord
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.