Something you have to know about Microsoft Office Programs

Microsoft Office Program

Microsoft Office Program is must in most of Offices and Businesses.  There are so many programs included inside Microsoft Office Program. Now a days we can find people are using 2007 or 2010 version of Microsoft Office Program. Microsoft Office 2010 is the latest version and 2013 is to be released. These programs are developed and combined by Microsoft for various kinds of purpose in Office work. Among those programs these are some of most common and important as I listed and defined below.

• Microsoft Office Word

Word is known as a main program in Microsoft Office and it is a Word Processor. The standard format is . DOC but optimized format is .DOCX. It is standardized by ICMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) International. The first version of Word was released on 1983 which was for MS-DOS Operating System. Now a days Word is using for designing words, writing sentences and paragraphs, writing letters etc.

• Microsoft Office Excel

Excel is specially for making spreadsheet which is very important in office to keep records of various data and calculating data by using formulas and essential method. The first version of Excel was released on 1985. The latest version of Microsoft Office Excel was released on May 12, 2010 by Microsoft.

• Microsoft Office Access

Access is used to create and operate a database application. In other words, it works as database management system. It is based in Microsoft Jet Database Engine with software development tools and a graphical user interface which is a professional and higher edition. It can also link directly with other data applications to import and export data. It is very useful for software developers and data architects to develop the software. VB Code (Visuel Basic Code) is supported in Access Program. We can create a VB Code and Macro to run the software created by using Microsoft Access. By using VB Code we can call the Windows Operating System function too. So this is best and high demanded program of Microsoft Office.

We can get it as separate program. The latest version of Microsoft Office Access was released on 2010 with Microsoft Office Excel. 

• Microsoft Office PowerPoint

The historical name of "PowerPoint" was called as "Presenter". It was first developed in 1987 by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc. It was officially lunched on May 22, 1990 with the name given as PowerPoint. It is a very famous program to get slide views for presentation, conference  plan show etc. The latest version is released on 15 June, 2010. 

• Microsoft Office Picture Manager

The Picture Manager is the program which is included in Microsoft Office from version 2003 to 2012. The main use of this program is do basic edition of pictures. This program is coming as Microsoft Photo Editor in version of 2013. Basically it helps to crop, re-size and convert into various picture format. It has compressing level setting that's why it gives a good quality of picture. There are other advance features also which are very easy to use.

• Microsoft Office Outlook

Office Outlook is used for E-main application with including task manager, calender, web browsing, note taking and journal. In organization Multiple users can use this by using Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Share Point Server. Some company like Skype, BlackBerry etc. are third party which has Add-on also to integrate Outlook. Software developer can call Outlook in their own software by using Microsoft Visual Studio. The latest version was released on 2011.