Well one would be wondering why I am still talking about things that seem so simple and have nothing to do with productivity. Well if you’ve read from the beginning I said lets take things one step at a time we would get to some of the things you might expect to see
Now an office suite is a software package containing various software’s that have to do with and usually help with office work. A typical one would be Microsoft’s office. I am not being paid by any one to talk about Microsoft the fact is that I am writing this current post in Microsoft word.
Microsoft office suite is the most popular paid for office suite and it contains very useful programs like
Microsoft word – for text editing
Microsoft Excel – For editing Spreed sheets
Powerpoint –To create presentations
Publisher – To create Professional Publications
Outlook – For organizing Emails and personal Calendars
Access - a simple to use Database creation Software
Most of you who use Microsoft office might only find yourself using word and occasionally Excel but which ever one of these you chose to use they all help to better organize information.
For example I manage most of my financial information using an Excel Spreed sheet it makes things easier to manage and analyze it also has tools that enable you to automatically do certain calculations. And the graph features are really indispensible.
Outlook to me is one of the most important applications for any one who would like to organize his life better. Some might see it quite unnecessary to use but I would talk about all that you can do with Microsoft outlook later on.
I am not a professional in the publishing world but putting together a creative look to a simple news letter is better done in Publisher than in word.
I have gone on and on about some of the things these software’s help you to do in order to help you to realize that using these applications more and more in managing resources is a priceless thing. Most people wouldn’t even want to bother looking at some packages but it is worth spending time to try some of these applications out to see if they really help in organized your life.
Free alternatives
If you feel you don’t have the money to buy a Microsoft office product there are free open source office suites out there which would do pretty much the same work as the one’s you pay for. I would personally recommend Open office Suite. This contains alternatives to Microsoft office and is also available in almost all platforms (Mac, windows, Linux etc.). It works just fine and is compatible with Microsoft office file formats at least for power point, word and excel file formats I know it works pretty well. It doesn’t come with an alternative for outlook but Morzilla Thunderbird would do in addition to some add on’s you could get it to work well.
Most people underestimate the use of such applications but it is worth thinking about what you could do with them to make your work easier.
These are the list of free applications that directly match Microsoft products
Excel – Open Spread Sheet
Word- Open Writer
Power point – Open Presentation
Outlook – Thunder Bird with calendar Add-on
Having an office suite is very important and really essential to everyday use and productivity
