Using Microsoft Office:
Word, Excel and Power Point
Microsoft Office is the most common computerized environment in the world. It includes most of the tools (open tools) needed for organizing text (Word), manipulating data (Excel) and knowledge presentation (PowerPoint).
What follows in this section is a concise description of the basic and most important features of these three tools that are needed to create and form a workable digital environment for an education learning project.
Microsoft Word
A word processor is today’s “natural environment” for digital writing and digital documentation of text. However, advanced software such as MS-Word enables to Format the text and other objects in the File in numerous ways; Insert external objects and files from other software and combine them in the Word document; and add Tables as an integral part of the document.
The user interface is built to help the user exploiting the software in a “logical” way - using commonsense. Hence, it is possible to learn advanced uses of the software by understanding its “logic”. This “logic” means that if we want to change the design of the text or other elements in the file, we will simply go to Format. If we wish to construct a table to show some data - go to Table. If one need to add a picture, sound or another file into his or her document - go to Insert.
In other words, investigate and explore the computerized environment you are working in and your understanding of this environment will increase by your own knowledge.
For example: Format and Paragraph
Entering Paragraph, we will see all the possibilities to change and format the paragraph.
The same “logic” applies to the other features of Word.
Now you can go on to Excel or Powerpoint
