Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Index:
1 Introduction to Microsoft Office.
A little bit of history...
Editions.
Alternatives to Office.
2 Desktop applications.
Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Access.
Microsoft FrontPage.
3 Microsoft Word.
Description.
Editions.
Utilities.
Future editions.
4 Criticisms to Office.
1 Introduction to
Microsoft Office
1.1 A little bit of
history…
It was not until 1989 when the first
“Microsoft Office” appeared.
Until that, “Microsoft Word”, “PowerPoint”
and “Excel” were individual programs.
The first to appear was “Word 1.0” in
1983.
After that, in 1985 Microsoft launched
“Excel 1.0”
Two years later the first edition of
“PowerPoint” was market for Macintosh
computers.
1.1 A little bit of
history…
As it was told before, “Word” appeared in
1983 on IBM PC (runing on DOS) .
Word 2 (1985)
Word 3 (1986)
Word 4 (1987)
Word 5 (1989)
Editions of OS/2:
Microsoft Word for OS/2 version 1.1B
(1992)
3.3 Word utilities
Word allows a lot of applications such as:
Write a letter or a fax
Creation of web pages
Creation of graphics or tables