Recently, I’ve received a number of questions about Microsoft Office 365. If you aren’t aware already, Office 365 is a subscription service. Currently, it comes in two versions: Personal for $69.99 a year (or $6.99 a month) and Home for $99.99 a year (or $9.99 a month). This post isn’t really about the two plans, though. If you want to know about them, you can get all the info by clicking HERE.
What I want to do in this post is give a brief description of the Office apps which are included in Office 365. I’m doing this because I’m finding that, while many people are familiar with Word and Excel, they are often clueless when it comes to the other programs. Let’s take a quick look:
Microsoft Office Word
Simply, Word is a word-processor. You use it to write letters, make lists, etc. One word of caution: although Word comes with templates for things like posters, flyers, etc., that isn’t really what the software is best at creating. Use Word to write letters and outlines, etc. If you want posters and such, use another app in Office 365 – Publisher. (More on that in the next blog post.)
Microsoft Office Excel
If you want to do anything with numbers, this is the program to use. Excel is used by accountants, bookkeepers and anyone else who wants to add, subtract, divide and multiple numbers. Of course, Excel can do lots more that just the four basic math functions I’ve just mentioned. However, I’m sure you get the idea!
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
This is the Microsoft Office application which is loved by many people and hated by just as many other people. With PowerPoint, you can create presentations for the office, for church, for business and even for fun. This is a program which can be very useful but also very boring when creators only know the very basic operations.
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is an email client. Many of you may remember Outlook Express; well, this is the paid version on steroids. With Outlook, you can drag emails from your mailboxes to the calendar to set up appointments; you can do so many things with Outlook, we could go on and on for many posts. Suffice to say, it’s the quintessential email client program.
In our next post, we’ll give a brief intro into the other apps in Office 365 and the other features included with a subscription.
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