Topic: Overview of (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint &

Internet Terms)

Subject: Introduction To Computer

Submitted To: Prof. Shehzad Jaffer

Submitted By: . Muhammad Qamar Aziz (1003)

. Muhammad Ahmad Dilmeer (1039)

. Muhammad Moazzam Ali (1027)

Class: BS-Islamic Studies (3rd Semester)

Session: Fall 2022 – 2026

Dated:05 January 2024

UNIVERSITY OF OKARA
 Overview of Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word enables us to create professional-quality reports, documents,
resumes, and letters.

Unlike a plain text editor, Microsoft Word has highlights including grammar check,
spell check, image support, text and font formatting, advanced page layout, HTML
support, and more.

History
Microsoft Word was a word-processor software launched in 1983 by the Microsoft
Corporation. Software developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi joined the
Microsoft team in 1981, and in 1983 they released Multi-Tool Word
for computers that ran a version of the UNIX operating system (OS). Later that year,
the program was rewritten to run on personal computers (PCs), such as the IBM PC,
under Microsoft’s version of DOS (disk operating system), or MS-DOS, and was
renamed Microsoft Word. The product was in direct competition with WordPerfect
and WordStar, both of which were introduced for PCs in 1982.

Preview of MS word File

Features

• Home
This has options like font colour, font size, font style, alignment, bullets, line spacing,
etc. All the basic elements which one may need to edit their document is available
under the Home option.

• Insert
Tables, shapes, images, charts, graphs, header, footer, page number, etc. can all be
entered in the document. They are included in the “Insert” category.

• Design
The template or the design in which you want your document to be created can be
selected under the Design tab. Choosing an appropriate tab will enhance the
appearance of your document.

• Page Layout
Under the Page Layout tab comes options like margins, orientation, columns, lines,
indentation, spacing, etc.

• References
This tab is the most useful for those who are creating a thesis or writing books or
lengthy documents. Options like citation, footnote, table of contents, caption,
bibliography, etc. can be found under this tab.

• Review
Spell check, grammar, Thesaurus, word count, language, translation, comments, etc.
can all be tracked under the review tab. This acts as an advantage for those who get
their documents reviewed on MS Word.

Apart from all the above-mentioned features, the page can be set in different views
and layouts, which can be added and optimised using the View tab on the Word
document. Margins and scales are also available for the benefit of the users.

Uses of MS Word
Given below are the different fields in which MS Word is used and simplifies the work
of an individual:

• In Education: It is considered as one of the simplest tools which can be used

by both teachers and students. Creating notes is easier using MS Word as
 they can be made more interactive by adding shapes and images. It is also
convenient to make assignments on MS Word and submitting them online.

• In Workplace: Submitting letters, bills, creating reports, letterheads, sample

documents, can all easily be done using MS Word.

• Creating & Updating Resume: One of the best tools to create your resumes
and is easy to edit and make changes in it as per your experience.
• For Authors: Since separate options are available for bibliography, table of
contents, etc., it is the best tool which can be used by authors for writing
books and adjusting it as per the layout and alignment of your choice.
Also, creating a Doc file and converting it into PDF is a more suitable option, so it is
highly recommended.

Overview of Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel enables users to format, organize and calculate data in a
spreadsheet.

By organizing data using software like Excel, data analysts and other users can
make information easier to view as data is added or changed. Excel contains a large
number of boxes called cells that are ordered in rows and columns.

History
Lotus 1-2-3, first sold by the Lotus Development Corporation in 1982, dominated the
mid-1980s spreadsheet market for personal computers (PCs) that ran MS-DOS,
an operating system sold by Microsoft. Microsoft developed a competing
spreadsheet, and the first version of Excel was released in 1985 for Apple Inc.’s
Macintosh computer. Featuring strong graphics and fast processing, the new
application quickly became popular. Lotus 1-2-3 was not available for the Macintosh,
which allowed Excel to gain a following among Macintosh users. The next version of
Excel, and the first version to run on Microsoft’s new Windows operating system,
followed in 1987. With a graphics-heavy interface designed to run on the latest
Windows computers, the powerful program became popular. Lotus was slow to
release a Windows version of its spreadsheet, allowing Excel to increase its market
share and eventually become the dominant spreadsheet application in the mid-
1990s. Later versions of Excel featured significant upgrades such as tool bars,
outlining, drawing, 3-D charts, numerous shortcuts, and more automated features. In
1995 Microsoft changed Excel’s naming system to emphasize the primary year of
the product’s release. Excel 95 was designed for the latest 32-bit computers that
used the Intel Corporation’s 386 microprocessor. New editions appeared in 1997
(Excel 97) and 1999 (Excel 2000). In 2003, Excel 2002 was released as part of the
Office XP suite and included a significant new feature that allowed users to recover
Excel data in the event of a computer crash.
Excel 2007 featured a redesigned user interface, sharing features with the Microsoft
products Word and PowerPoint and allowing users to move smoothly between these
applications. In addition, chart making, data sharing, security, formula writing,
sorting, and filtering were improved.

Preview of MS Excel Worksheet

Features

Various editing and formatting can be done on an Excel spreadsheet. Discussed

below are the various features of MS Excel.

• Home
• Comprises options like font size, font styles, font colour, background
colour, alignment, formatting options and styles, insertion and deletion
of cells and editing options.
 • Insert
• Comprises options like table format and style, inserting images and
figures, adding graphs, charts and sparklines, header and footer
option, equation and symbols.
• Page Layout
• Themes, orientation and page setup options are available under the
page layout option.
• Formulas
• Since tables with a large amount of data can be created in MS excel,
under this feature, you can add formulas to your table and get quicker
solutions.
• Data
• Adding external data (from the web), filtering options and data tools are
available under this category.
• Review
• Proofreading can be done for an excel sheet (like spell check) in the
review category and a reader can add comments in this part.
• View
• Different views in which we want the spreadsheet to be displayed can
be edited here. Options to zoom in and out and pane arrangement are
available under this category.

Uses of MS Excel
MS Excel is widely used for various purposes because the data is easy to save, and
information can be added and removed without any discomfort and less hard work.

Given below are a few important benefits of using MS Excel:

• Easy To Store Data: Since there is no limit to the amount of information that
can be saved in a spreadsheet, MS Excel is widely used to save data or to
analyse data. Filtering information in Excel is easy and convenient.
• Easy To Recover Data: If the information is written on a piece of paper,
finding it may take longer, however, this is not the case with excel
spreadsheets. Finding and recovering data is easy.
• Application of Mathematical Formulas: Doing calculations has become
easier and less time-taking with the formulas option in MS excel
• More Secure: These spreadsheets can be password secured in a laptop or
personal computer and the probability of losing them is way lesser in
comparison to data written in registers or piece of paper.
• Data at One Place: Earlier, data was to be kept in different files and registers
when the paperwork was done. Now, this has become convenient as more
than one worksheet can be added in a single MS Excel file.
• Neater and Clearer Visibility of Information: When the data is saved in the
form of a table, analysing it becomes easier. Thus, information is a
spreadsheet that is more readable and understandable.

Overview of Microsoft Powerpoint

MS Office PowerPoint is an application for making graphical presentations
thus adding a visual aspect to our data, enhancing its concept, and leading to
easier communication.

The software offers various features like Customising colour schemes, adding
graphics, images, and animation, etc.

History
Microsoft PowerPoint was virtual presentation software developed by Robert
Gaskins and Dennis Austin for the American computer software company
Forethought, Inc. The program, initially named Presenter, was released for
the Apple Macintosh in 1987. In July of that year, the Microsoft Corporation, in
its first significant software acquisition, purchased the rights to PowerPoint for
$14 million. PowerPoint was designed to facilitate visual demonstrations for
group presentations in the business environment. Presentations are arranged
as a series of individually designed “slides” that contain images, text, or other
objects. Version 1.0 allowed users to generate text and graphics pages for
black-and-white handouts, notes, and overhead transparencies. Version 2.0,
developed for both Macintosh and Microsoft’s Windows operating system,
was upgraded to output 35-mm colour slides. The 1992 release of PowerPoint
3.0 introduced the now-standard virtual slideshow.

Preview of MS Powerpoint File

 Features
There are multiple features that are available in MS PowerPoint which can
customise and optimise a presentation. The same have been discussed
below:

• Slide Layout
• Multiple options and layouts are available based on which a presentation can
be created. This option is available under the “Home” section and one can
select from the multiple layout options provided.
• The image below shows the different slide layout options which are available
for use:

• Insert – Clipart, Video, Audio, etc.

• Under the “Insert” category, multiple options are available where one can
choose what feature they want to insert in their presentation. This may include
images, audio, video, header, footer, symbols, shapes, etc.
• Slide Design
MS PowerPoint has various themes using which background colour and designs or
textures can be added to a slide. This makes the presentation more colourful and
attracts the attention of the people looking at it.

This feature can be added using the “Design” category mentioned on the homepage
of MS PowerPoint. Although there are existing design templates available, in case
someone wants to add some new texture or colour, the option to customise the
design is also available. Apart from this, slide designs can also be downloaded
online.

Refer to the below for slide design:

• Animations
During the slide show, the slides appear on the screen one after the other. In case,
one wants to add some animations to the way in which a slide presents itself, they
can refer to the “Animations” category.

Apart from all these options; font size, font style, font colour, word art, date and time,
etc. can also be added to a PPT.

Uses of MS Powerpoint
PowerPoint presentations are useful for both personal and professional usage.
Given below are a few of the major fields where PPT is extremely useful:

• Education
• With e-learning and smart classes being chosen as a common mode of
education today, PowerPoint presentations can help in making education
more interactive and attract students towards the modified version of studying.

• Marketing
• In the field of marketing, PowerPoint presentations can be extremely
important. Using graphs and charts, numbers can be shown more evidently
and clearly which may be ignored by the viewer if being read.
 • Business
• To invite investors or to show the increase or decrease in profits, MS
PowerPoint can be used.
• Creating Resumes
• Digital resumes can be formed using MS PowerPoint. Different patterns,
photograph, etc. can be added to the resume.
• Depicting Growth
• Since both graphics and text can be added in a presentation, depicting the
growth of a company, business, student’s marks, etc. is easier using PPT.

Overview of Internet Terms

Internet
A global network web of millions of computer networks linked and accessible to
users around the world.

Basic Internet Terms

• Browser
A piece of software such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows a
computer to access and display documents, view pictures, hear sound, and view
video clips from the World Wide Web.
• Domain
While every computer has its own unique address, every user using the Internet has
a unique address called a domain. A domain recognizes one or more IP addresses.
An example of a domain is weather.com and is part of the URL such
as https://www.weather.com. The standard top-level domains are:

• com - Commercial business

• edu - Educational institutions
• gov - Government agencies
• mil - Military
• net - Networks organization
• org - Organizations (nonprofit)

There are additional top-level domains that are now recognized on the Internet. They
include:

• aero - Air-transport industry

• biz - Businesses
• coop - Cooperatives
• info - Unrestricted use
• museum - museums
 • pro - Accountants, lawyers, physicians, and other professionals
• tv - Television

Some countries use a sub-domain or geographical domain as part of their address.

Fox example, an academic institution such as Oxford University in the United
Kingdom can use ac.uk. An example of a URL with this domain
is http://www.ox.ac.uk/.
• Homepage
The first page that is viewed when the browser starts. It is also the page of a Web
site that provides the introduction or content with links.
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
The abbreviation for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is the set of rules by which Web
pages are transferred across the Internet.

• Internet Protocol (IP) Address

The Internet is composed of local, regional, national, and worldwide computer

networks. Each computer on the Internet can be identified by a set of unique
numbers that is called an internet protocol (IP) address. The IP address is composed
of four different numbers separated by periods such as 205.134.120.60.

• Link or Hypertext Link

An underlined word(s), phrase(s), or graphics on a Web page that transports the

reader to additional or related information on the Internet.
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
An addressing scheme that is used on the Internet to locate resources and/or
services on the World Wide Web. Basically the URL is the address of a computer file
that has been put on a computer server to access the Internet.
• Web Page
A single hypertext file or a page that is part of a Web site.
• Website
A collection of World Wide Web pages or files.
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
An addressing scheme that is used on the Internet to locate resources and/or
services on the World Wide Web. Basically the URL is the address of a computer file
that has been put on a computer server to access the Internet.
• TelNet
A terminal emulation protocol (or Internet program) used to connect a computer to a
remote host or server. Telnet is one of the oldest Internet activities and is primarily
used to access online databases or to read articles stored on university servers.
 • E-mail
Mail that's electronically transmitted by your computer. As opposed to snail mail, e-
mail sends your messages instantaneously, anywhere in the world. It has the
capability to send messages at any time and to anyone.
• Blog
A blog is information that is instantly published to a Web site. Blog scripting allows
someone to automatically post information to a Web site. The information first goes
to a blogger Web site. Then the information is automatically inserted into a template
tailored for your Web site.
These are the internet terms which are necessary to be known for basic knowledge
of using internet.