My Productivity: Office Suite

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

My thought on the 21st May 2011 doomsday prediction that never happened

It is interesting how things went down for this group. They had so much believe that something was going to happen. That some people were going to be raptured and that mankind had to change their lives.

My personal Reaction

Personally my initial reaction to the whole situation was not to be bothered about the whole prediction. I was not too bothered but I will have to be honest I gave some respect to that prediction. I personally thought that if it did happen it would be foolish not to have believed it. I am a Christian and I do believe in the rapture and the end of the world where the maker of this universe will judge every one, and only those who have been found to be righteous will make it into heaven. I also have my own personal thoughts about the rapture and what Jesus Christ said about it. I know very well that Jesus teaches his followers to continue to work until the day he comes back to Judge and as a result Christians are to live everyday like it could be the last day of the lives but should not stop going on about their daily lives. It is remarkable to here about some who believed in this preacher and decided to sell their belonging instead of going about their normal business but just living according to the commandments that God had set for his people. For me there was nothing wrong with predicting it.

Some annoying reactions.

I was not really following people’s reaction to this prediction online but I was listening to Aljezeera during the day when I realized something about some people’s reaction to the whole prediction. Some people interviewed on the streets said that they didn’t believe it but one guys reaction whish struck me was when he said he felt everyone who believed in the prediction was stupid. Also some of the TV presenters seemed to be mocking the preacher. I felt that was quite naïve and wrong to sit down and mock someone who made such a prediction.

I think this kind of reaction was wrong for the following reason. In the first place the preacher and his followers and all those who were predicting the end of the world I feel were really good people at heart. Those guys who you saw on your tv holding signs and warning people to change their ways have done nothing wrong . they were not doing it for their personal gained they wanted to do their best to help people to change their ways and avoid suffering for their sinful lives. If you neighbor came to you warning you that he had here’d that there was danger nearby and asked that to be very careful just as he was going to be careful in order to avoid the danger he was talking about what could be wrong with that. It doesn’t make sense to take time to bash someone who believes that giving a certain advice could help save someone’s life so long as that person doesn’t force you to take implement his advice.

All those who went out preaching the worlds end did it not out of selfish reasons but as a result of being selfless. I thing we should look at that instead of criticizing them for getting it wrong.