Office automation refers to the varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks and goals.
Adobe Acrobat is a program that converts any files into PDF documents with a professional appearance, that you can share, secure through certificates, revise allowing multiple users to incorporate comments, create forms, etc.
IBM Lotus is a set of applications including a powerful collaborating client-server mailing system (Lotus Notes/Domino Server) associated an office package (Lotus Symphony) with a spreadsheet, presentation and a word processing program based on the OpenOffice framework.
MS Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services, collectively referred to as an Office Suite, for the MS Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is avalaible in different releases (Standard, Pro, ..., System). The most complete version has 16 applications and 5 servers technologies. It includes for example the most known, such as: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, SharePoint, InfoPath, Project, Access, FrontPage, OneNote, Publisher, etc.
Microsoft Office Access is a relational database management system (RDBMS). It combines the relational Microsoft Jet or SQL Database Engine with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. It can be linked to other databases like Oracle, AS/400, SQL Server to create input forms, reports, queries and web pages. The software functions can be extended through the use of macros and VBA.
MS Office Communicator is a client software for unified communications business allowing employees of an organisation to communicate in real time through the use of instant messaging, VoIP and videoconferencing. Communicator replaces Windows Messenger in corporate environments.
Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application that allows making tables, statistics and charts. It includes 1'200 basic tools and 378 functions giving the possibility to make calculations or data manipulations. It supports VBA as a scripting language which enables it to expand its features and is often used in corporate business.
Microsoft Office InfoPath is an application that enables the design of business forms. He replaces advantageously the forms of MS Word and integrates into MS Excel and MS SharePoint Portal Server (MOSS). There is also a server version of this application called InfoPath Services.
MS Office OneNote allows to centralize and search almost any type of information (post-it like). It features collaboration tools to help manage information and facilitate group work with SharePoint, for example.
MS Office Outlook is a personal information manager and e-mail client. Although mainly used as an application for mail, it also offers calendar and tasks management (altough this won't replace MS Project) as well as contact management (often to be completed by MS Business Contact Manager). It can be used independently, but it can also operate in conjunction with MS Exchange Server to provide extended functionality for multi-users within an organization, such as the shared mailboxes, calendars and schedules meetings.
MS Office PowerPoint is used to create complex presentations, trainings and simple interactive terminals. This software offers many possibilities, but to get professional results, it is important to supplement your training to learn to integrate charts with MS Excel, flowcharts with MS Visio as well as deal with complex images and animations with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Photoshop.
MS Producer is a small application of the MS Office available for free Internet download and used for creating video online-content combining text, web pages and MS PowerPoint presentations. It is an interesting tool used to automate the knowledge transfer within a company.
MS Office Visio is used to create synoptics diagrams. You can create Gantt charts, PERT networks or IDEF0 diagrams and electronic schematics, processes, chemical engineering facilities, access maps and even architecturals or mechanical plans, etc.
MS Office Word is a major component of Microsoft Office. It is both an intuitive application for beginners and a complete software for the preparation of books. If the drafting of short texts can be so spontaneous, managing voluminous documents requires thorough. MS Word has hundreds of command for specific tasks, only some are visible in menus. Professionals can even have access to a programming language (VBA) to developed specialized and automate functions, or create new ones.
MS Paint is a basic image processing software included in every MS Windows version. It opens files and saves as BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF type. It allows resizing and cropping as well as changing a delimited range of colors. Anyway, it can't be compared with any professional image processing software.
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