Question

What is the differences of MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint?

Answer 1

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint are part of Microsoft Office suite. They all are different tools and are each intended for a specific range of users and needs.

MICROSOFT WORD:

Microsoft Word is basically designed for creating printed documents. MS Word is a word processing program where you type letters, essays, dissertations, theses, and a wide area of literary genres ranging from poetry to a full-length novel.

People use MS Word for all sorts of creating documents, including:

· Academic notes.

· Letters

· Meeting Minutes

· Handbooks, manuals.

· Newsletters

· Forms

· Invoices, etc.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT:

Microsoft PowerPoint is primarily a presentation tool. It is designed to help a presenter to visualise his /her ideas as they speak. It is designed mainly for “Displaying things” in form of slides. A Microsoft PowerPoint product is a visual presentation usually displayed on a screen by a projector during a speech. The speaker uses it as a guide to assist audience and themselves to guide them through an organized presentation. It may include charts, graphs, outlines, photos, etc. to illustrate the point.

MICROSOFT EXCEL:

Excel is very versatile, but is mainly used for data recording and calculations to be performed on data. In Excel, various tasks include-

· Calculate results from a large lump of numbers, and then show the way the numbers develop by using a chart or conditional formatting to colour-code relative values.

· Manage large chunk of data and capable of perform automatic tasks on such huge data easily.

· It contains predefined functions for easy data manipulation.

· It is also capable of performing all mathematical calculations on stored data.