I am not saying that Office is not a great product or upgrade. My only advice to you, the accountant or consumer, is to become aware that Office has yet to achieve perfection. Now that I have established this opinion, we can analyze Office objectively. Office97 vs. Office showdown Office 97 revolutionized and dominated the market in the past few years. So how does one improve a good thing? For starters, integrate it with the World Wide Web.
The emergence of the Internet has changed the concept of business without boundaries or limitations. Office has the ability to save documents in HTML format without changing its original formatting, allowing other users with a Web browser to share information.
This is known as the Companion File Format. Editing capabilities for Web pages are flexible within the Office environment, via the Edit button from Internet Explorer 5 and accesses the program where the HTML document originated, e.
Word Keep a watchful eye! In the July issue of PC World , Office was criticized heavily for its lack of file compatibility with other applications. For example, a document created in PowerPoint can be viewed beautifully in Internet Explorer 5, but which comes out looking like garbage in Netscape Navigator. Opening Office files in other applications such as Lotus SmartSuite displays uneven formatting and source code nightmares. This will not happen in Office 97 or higher versions.
Complex data files also slow down performance. The conclusion was that the HTML common file approach was a hindrance to Web page designing, on the basis that not everyone uses a Microsoft browser or related products. Analyze your needs and preferences when considering the upgrade.
The whole objective of the Internet is to open the lines of communication. Moreover, files can be saved with the appropriate international text encoding so they can be viewed by any language system throughout the world. Rather than distribute different language versions for various countries, Office comes readily available as a single worldwide executable application.
There is no longer the six months wait for that French version to be available. Multilingual users will appreciate this global enhancement. Other nifty new features include the multiple-item Copy and Paste function. Microsoft Office offers enhanced charting and rich analysis tools for creating spreadsheets and sharing information.
Microsoft Outlook is an integrated e-mail and personal information manager, providing e-mail, calendaring, and contact and task management. Publisher is designed to take desktop publishing to a new level of automation, professional design and flexibility to allow you to work and publish the way you want.
Publisher has expanded the quality and quantity of content, publication templates and design options to help users create and publish professional looking publications anywhere - desktop printer, copy shop, commercial printer and the Web. The Small Business Customer Manager can create a customer and sales database for your entire office based on accounting data files and contact information from Microsoft Outlook, Expands Outlook contact management, Tracks customer activity, Generates customer, sales, product, and salesperson reports, and Creates Office communications documents for your customers, such as letters, postcards, or flyers.
The Business Planner provides instructions, examples and resources to help write a professional-looking business plan. It makes life easier by helping find practical business information, provides a well-organized list of useful small business resources and offers a variety of Office templates designed specifically for small businesses. Direct Mail Manager allows business professionals the ability to create direct mailings, import addresses from many different file formats, verifies and sorts the address list.
Introduction Office is Microsoft's software suite that is typically used in an office setting. Topics include menus, toolbars, dialog boxes, new files, save, print, cut, copy, and paste. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to: Discuss Microsoft Office 's basic features.
What is Microsoft Office ? Everyone has different computing needs. Office Standard includes: Word word processing software Excel spreadsheet and analysis PowerPoint presentation graphics Outlook email. What version of Microsoft Office do I have? Here is a simple test: If you have Word 97, you have Office If you have Word 6. I have the same question 7. Report abuse. Details required :.
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What version of Office do you really have, if it is not Office Small Business? Sorry, it is Office Small Business. Thanks very much for your help. Where can I download for free or buy this disk, please?
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