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EDPM Grade 10

Application Software
Application software means the programs you use on your computer to perform specific tasks.
Unlike system software, which runs the computer's hardware and provides a platform for other software,
application software is aimed at end-users and serves practical purposes. You might use a web browser
such as Internet Explorer to search the web, iTunes to manage your music, Paint to create or edit an image
or VLC Media Player to watch a video. These are four examples of application software.
Application software can also be used to do tasks at home, school or work.
Four types of productivity application software:
- Word Processor
- Spreadsheet
- Database
- Presentation
Word Processor
The primary purpose of a word processor is to manipulate textual data. Popular commercial word
processors include Microsoft Office Word and Corel WordPerfect.
Word processors provide a range of features for document creation, editing, formatting and distribution
such as:
• automatic insertion of a table of contents, citations and bibliography;
• creation of an index;
• insertion of illustrations such as pictures, clip art, charts and screenshots;
• automatically finding spelling mistakes and suggesting corrections;
• insertion of hyperlinks, symbols and objects;
• printing of envelopes and labels;
• mail merge for personalising a standard letter to many recipients.

Spreadsheet
The primary purpose of a spreadsheet is to manipulate numeric data. Spreadsheets are ideal for working
with lists of data. A spreadsheet is essentially an automatic calculation tool. It is an ‘electronic’
replacement for the traditional numeric data manipulation tools, e.g. the accountant’s columnar pad,
pencil and calculator. Microsoft Office Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 are popular spreadsheet programs.
Spreadsheets allow users to:
• store and manipulate numeric data;
• perform error-free automatic calculations;
• recalculate the results of formulae every time some of the underlying
data changes;
• sort, search and extract data from a list;
• format the contents of a worksheet into a professional-looking document;
• present a visual view of the data using graphs and charts.
Database Management System
A database management system (or just database) allows the user to enter data either as single items or as
lists and then sort the data automatically in a specified way. Data can be, for example, names, addresses
and cell phone numbers, class registers and examination results, or stock purchased and sold on various
dates. The information can then be searched using one or more criteria; for example, which students
achieved an examination mark above 50 per cent? Or, when were pineapples sold to stores in St. Lucia?
Databases allow users to:
• easily create a template, the equivalent to creating blank record cards in a manual record-keeping
system;
• import data from another source such as a table in a word processing document or a spreadsheet;
• perform automatic calculations on stored data;
• quickly sort huge amounts of data;
• re-sort records when needed;
• quickly search through huge amounts of data, selecting records that fit given criteria;
• produce complex reports quickly and easily.

Presentation Software
Presentation software is used for product demonstrations, sales and marketing ideas, lectures in
universities and school lessons.
Traditionally, public speakers, lecturers and managers used hand-drawn transparencies and an overhead
projector to help them when delivering presentations. Slide-show presentation software, working with a
computer, multimedia projector and screen, has largely replaced this older technology.
Powerpoint is a popular example.

Presentation software allows users to:


• Prepare professional-looking slides for projection.
• Choose from a range of slide layouts and change the layout as needed.
• Apply a consistent design by using a master slide so that changes to it affect all slides in the
presentation.
• Include graphics, moving pictures and sounds in a slide show.
• Move from one slide to another in various ways.
• Control the order in which slides are presented during a slide show.

SUMMARY
➢ Application software is the software you use to do tasks at home, school
or work.
➢ Productivity software includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
and database programs.
➢ The primary purpose of a word processor is the manipulation of text data.
➢ The primary purpose of a spreadsheet is the manipulation of numeric data.
➢ The primary purpose of a database is the electronic storage and
manipulation of data in tables.
➢ Presentation software is used to enhance a wide variety of presentations
including product demonstrations, sales and marketing ideas, and lectures.

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