PRESENTED BY: NOOR COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
How Computer Applications are beneficial for us???
PRESENTER: ALI AKBER
Two Types Of Applications
General Purpose Applications
Example
: Microsoft Office : Peachtree Accounting
Special Purpose Applications
Example
Microsoft Office Suite
Microsoft (Company Name) Office (Product Name) Suite (Collection of Applications)
MS Office suite package has the following applications
MS Word (Word Processing)
MS Excel (Spreadsheet and Accounting)
MS PowerPoint (Presentations) MS Access (Database Creation and Management)
Etc.
Importance of the MS Office Suite
In 1990, a new concept was created by Microsoft
Corporation to merge different software applications into a suite package allowing users to navigate and share resources between applications. Microsoft Office Suite 3.1 was introduced, tested and released for certain government offices. In 1997, Microsoft produced its first official suite office application package Microsoft Office Suite 97 for the public, which literally changed the way desktop applications were used in a business or home environment.
Ms- Office Suite Features
Integrated Concept
An important factor of MS Office Suite is the integration of software applications in the suite package, but yet allows each software program to keep its own identity. Sometimes, six or eight people must work on a project at the same time. An example of third party software integration are financial reports generated from QuickBooks into MS Excel. MS Office Suite has pre-made templates that range from business report templates, presentation templates, Excel accounting templates
Workgroup Management
Third Party Software Applications
Use of Templates