Microsoft Office is a set of office software based on Windows operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation. Common components are Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. The latest version is Office 365(Office 16).
Each generation of Microsoft Office has multiple versions, and each version selects different components according to the actual needs of users. Commonly used are Excel, Word and PPT.
Microsoft office Word
Microsoft Office Word is a word processing software. It is considered as the main program of Office. It occupies a dominant position in the word processing software market. Its proprietary DOC format is regarded as an industry standard, although its new version Word 2007 also supports XML-based formats. Word is also suitable for some versions of Microsoft Works. Suitable for Windows and Mac platforms. Its main competitors are Writer, Star Office, Corel WordPerfect and Apple Pages.
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Excel is a spreadsheet program [a software program that performs numerical and budgetary operations]. Is the earliest office component. Excel has a variety of built-in functions, which can classify, sort and even draw charts for a large number of data. Like Microsoft office Word, it has a dominant share in the market. At first, it was the dominant competitor of Lotus 1-2-3, but in the end it sold more and faster, so it became the actual standard. Suitable for Windows and Mac platforms. Its main competitors are Calc, Star Office and Corel Quattro Pro.
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office Outlook-is a personal information management program and email communication software. Take over Microsoft mail in Office 97. But it is different from Outlook Express, which comes with the system: it includes an e-mail client, a calendar, a task manager and an address book-it has much more functions than Outlook Express. The main competitors of its email program are Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora. Its main competitors in personal information management programs are Mozilla and Lotus Organizer. Only suitable for Windows platform (later support for MAC); Most palmtop computers also have a version. Its Mac counterpart is Microsoft Entourage (later replaced by Outlook).
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a demonstration software designed by Microsoft Corporation. Users can not only make presentations on projectors or computers, but also print them out and make them into movies for wider application. Powerpoint can not only create presentations, but also hold face-to-face meetings, conference calls or show presentations to the audience online. What Powerpoint makes is called a presentation, which is a format suffix:. Ppt can also be saved as. Pdf, picture format, etc. , and can be saved as video format in versions 20 10 and 20 13. Each page in a presentation is called a slide, and each slide is an independent and interrelated content in the presentation.
Microsoft Office FrontPage
Microsoft Office FrontPage is a software designed, produced, published and managed by Microsoft Corporation. Because of its good usability, FrontPage is considered as an excellent tool for beginners of web pages. But its function can't meet higher requirements, so most high-end users use Adobe Dreamweaver as a substitute. Its main competitor is Adobe Dreamweaver.
In Office 2007 and later, it was cancelled and there was no successor. Microsoft provides two solutions: Sharepoint Designer is suitable for servers with Sharepoint, and Express Web Designer is suitable for servers.
Microsoft Office Onenote
Microsoft Office OneNote enables you to capture, organize and reuse notes on your laptop, desktop computer or Tablet PC. It provides you with a place to store all your notes and allows you to handle them freely. OneNote 2003 can also help you get information in many ways, and then organize and use it as needed. This is a new program in Office2003.
In Office 20 13, a free application for iOS was also launched. At the same time, it has also become a classic office application, which is the main part of the home student version 20 13.
In addition to the above most commonly used components, Microsoft Office has the following other components and network services.
Microsoft Office Access
Microsoft Office Access (formerly Microsoft Access) is a relational database management system released by Microsoft. It combines the characteristics of MicrosoftJetDatabaseEngine and graphical user interface, and is a member of Microsoft Office.
Access can access data in Access/Jet, MicrosoftSQLServer, Oracle or any ODBC compatible database. Skilled software designers and data analysts use it to develop application software, while some unskilled programmers and "advanced users" of non-programmers can use it to develop simple application software. Although it supports some object-oriented (OO) technologies, it has not become a complete object-oriented development tool.
In fact, Access is also the name of another communication program of Microsoft, which wants to compete with ProComm and other similar programs. But afterwards, Microsoft confirmed that it was a failed plan and suspended it. A few years later, they renamed the name database software.
Microsoft Office Publisher
Microsoft Office Publisher is a desktop publishing application software released by Microsoft Corporation. It is often considered as an entry-level desktop publishing application, which can provide more powerful page element control function than Microsoft Word, but slightly inferior to professional page typesetting software, such as Adobe's InDesign and Quark XPress.
Compared with other desktop publishing software, Publisher has always been unpopular with high-end business print shops. It can only be used for Windows, and the system that occupies a considerable share in the industry runs the old company's MAC OS X. The positioning of Publisher in entry-level application software has caused many problems, such as that there are no corresponding fonts and embedded objects on the service provider's computer (although Publisher provides tools to compress related files into self-publishing applications). Many high-end functions, such as transparency, object shadow, slugs, path text, embedded PDF output, etc. , either not fully implemented or not implemented at all. However, some recent versions have been greatly improved, and they began to pay attention to color separation and correctly handle color output. Publisher2007 also includes a long-awaited feature that can output a commercial publishing quality PDF format with embedded fonts, and can be downloaded as an option from the Microsoft website.
Publisher is included in the high-end version of Microsoft Office. This reflects Microsoft's positioning of Publisher. Compared with those heavyweight products, it is easy to use and moderately priced. Its target users are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises without professionals to produce marketing materials and other documents.
Most substitutes for Publisher, except Adobe PageMaker, do not provide the function of importing Publisher. However, Publisher can export to EMF (Enhanced Metafile) format, which is also supported by other software.
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio is a flowchart and vector drawing software running under Windows operating system, and it is a part of Microsoft Office software.
Visio is a product of Microsoft after it acquired the company of the same name in 2000. Its competitors are Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand and Corel Draw.
In addition, VISIO is part of Microsoft Office software. However, it is usually sold separately and is not bundled in the Microsoft Office suite. Usually, however, later versions of the Office suite include Visio Viewer.
In Visio 20 13, the default format of Visio was changed to. vsdx。
Microsoft Office picture manager
Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a basic picture management software, abbreviated as OIS, which is a component of Microsoft Office 2003 (similar to the basic version of Google Picasa or Adobe Photoshop Elements). Canceled in Office 20 13.
Microsoft photo drawing
Microsoft Photo Draw is an easy-to-use program, which uniquely provides photo or graphic editing and examples to help Microsoft Office and small business users create photos or graphics with customized appearance in PowerPoint, Word, Publisher and Web. Especially for business users, Photo Draw reduces the steps required to complete photo or graphic tasks. PhotoDraw includes professional design templates, preset default settings and automatic correction function. Users can easily create custom graphics without graphic training or reference to complicated manuals. Users can use Photo Draw to combine, use and customize any of the following graphic elements: clip art, shapes, photos or graphics (including scanned photos or graphics and photos or graphics downloaded from digital cameras), images in text and other graphics programs, and charts drawn by users. Its competitors are Adobe Photoshop and CorelPainter.
Microsoft project
Microsoft Project (or MSP) is a project management software program developed and sold by Microsoft. The purpose of software design is to assist the project manager to make plans, allocate resources for tasks, track progress, manage budget and analyze workload. The first version of Microsoft Project is Microsoft Project for Windows 95, which was published in 1995. Subsequent versions were released in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2006 respectively. This application can generate a critical path plan-although third-party Pro Chain and Spherical Angle also provide critical chain related software. Schedule can be resource standard, and critical chain can be visualized in Gantt chart. In addition, Project can identify different categories of users. These different types of users have different levels of access to projects, overviews and other materials. Custom objects such as calendars, viewing styles, tables, filters, and fields are shared with all users in the enterprise domain.
Microsoft SharePoint Designer
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is one of the solutions after Microsoft canceled Frontpage 2003, but this version is definitely not a simple improved version of Frontpage 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a brand-new Web2.0 product, which is used to create and customize Microsoft SharePoint websites and generate workflow-supporting applications based on SharePoint technology. SharePoint Designer 2007 provides various professional tools. With these tools, users can use reporting and hosting rights to generate interactive solutions, design customized Share Point websites and maintain website performance without writing code on the SharePoint platform.
Microsoft InfoPath
Microsoft InfoPath is an application for developing XML-based forms for users. It was first released at the end of 2003 as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 software package. The main function of InfoPath is to create and check XML documents by supporting custom XML configuration files. It can connect to external systems by using XML Web services through MSXML and SOAP toolkit, and the back-end and middle-tier systems can be set to communicate by using Web service standards such as SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. In addition, because the InfoPath file is based on XML, it can call data binding from external database resources to form control elements instead of InfoPath itself.
Here is an example of using InfoPath: users use InfoPath to fill out forms offline in their notebooks. InfoPath can check the legality of some fields in the form, and users can attach digital signatures. Then, the user can connect to the server, submit the form (in XML) and wait for the approval of the superior. When users connect to the server, the form template can be updated automatically.