HISTORY

The very first version of Microsoft Office was released in 1989,

not for Windows, but for the Apple Macintosh. Microsoft Office
has long been the dominant player when it comes to software that
offer word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools.

History of Microsoft Office for Microsoft Windows

• Microsoft Office 3.0 was the first version of Office to be

released for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
• Microsoft Office 4.0 was released in 1994, containing Word
6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Mail, and Access. Word was
called Word 6.0 at this point despite the fact the previous
version number was 2.0. The purpose was to use common
version numbering with the Mac OS version.
• Microsoft Office 4.3 was the last 16-bit version, and is also
the last version to support Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.1
and Windows NT 3.5 (Windows NT 3.51 was supported up
to and including Office 97).
• Microsoft Office 95 was done as a fully 32-bit version to
match Windows 95. Office 95 was available in two versions,
Office 95 Standard and Office 95 Professional. The standard
version consists of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Schedule+.
The professional edition contains all of the items in the
standard version plus Access. If the professional version is
purchased in CD-ROM form, it also includes Bookshelf.
• Microsoft Office 97, a major milestone release which
included hundreds of new features and improvements,
introduced "Command Bars", a paradigm in which menus
and toolbars were made more similar in capability and visual
design. Office 97 also featured natural language systems and
sophisticated grammar checking.
• Microsoft Office 2000 introduced adaptive menus, where
little-used options were hidden from the user. It also
introduced a new security feature, built around digital
signatures, to diminish the threat of macro viruses. Office
2000 automatically trusts macros (written in VBA6) that
were digitally signed from authors who have been previously
designated as trusted.
Office 2000 is the last version to support Windows 95. 2000
is also the last Office release devoid of Microsoft Product
Activation.
• Microsoft Office XP, released in conjunction with Windows
XP, is a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and
changes. Office XP introduced the Safe Mode feature. It
allows applications such as Outlook to boot when it might
otherwise fail. Safe Mode enables Office to detect and either
repair or bypass the source of the problem, such as a
corrupted registry or a misbehaving add-in. Smart tag is a
technology delivered with Office XP. Some smart tags
operate based on user activity, such as helping with typing
errors. These smart tags are supplied with the products, and
are not programmable. For developers, though, there is the
ability to create custom smart tags. In Office XP, custom
smart tags could work only in Word and Excel. Microsoft
Office XP includes integrated voice command and text
dictation capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition.
Another feature introduced with Office XP is Product
Activation, which is also implemented in Windows XP (and
later versions of Windows and Office).
Office XP is the last version to support Windows 98, ME and
NT 4.0. Office XP is also the earliest Office reported to work
well with Windows Vista - however Outlook 2002 (XP) does
have some serious problems with Vista such as not
remembering email account passwords.
• Microsoft Office 2003 was released in 2003. Two new
applications made their debut in Office 2003: Microsoft
 InfoPath and OneNote. It is the first version to use Windows
XP style icons. Outlook 2003 provides improved
functionality in many areas, including Kerberos
authentication, RPC over HTTP, and Cached Exchange
Mode. The key benefit of Outlook 2003 is the improved junk
mail filter. 2003 is the last Office version to support
Windows 2000.
• Microsoft Office 2007 was released in 2007. Office 2007
contains a number of new features, the most notable of which
is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent
User Interface[7] (initially referred to as the Ribbon UI),
replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the
cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed
toolbar, known as the Ribbon.
Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3,
Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, or
Windows Vista.[8]
On May 21, 2008 Microsoft announced that Office 2007
Service Pack 2 will add native support for the
OpenDocument Format.[9] EU announced it is going to
investigate Microsoft Office OpenDocument Format support.
[10]
 MICROSOFT WORD

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's flagship word processing software.

It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for
XENIX systems.[1][2][3] Versions were later written for several other
platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple
Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, OS/2 and Microsoft
Windows(1989). It is a component of the Microsoft Office system;
however, it is also sold as a standalone product and included in
Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 version, the
branding was revised to emphasize Word's identity as a component
within the Office suite; Microsoft began calling it Microsoft
Office Word instead of merely Microsoft Word. The latest
releases are Word 2007 for Windows and Word 2008 for Mac OS
X.

Features and flaws

Word has a built-in spell checker, thesaurus, dictionary and Office

Assistant.

[edit] Normal.dot

Normal.dot is the master template from which all Word documents

are created. It is one of the most important files in Microsoft Word.
It determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text
and font defaults. Although normal.dot is already set with certain
defaults, the user can change normal.dot to new defaults. This will
change other documents that were created using the template and
saved with the option to automatically update the formatting styles.
Macros

Like other Microsoft Office documents, Word files can include

advanced macros and even embedded programs. The language was
originally WordBasic, but changed to Visual Basic for
Applications as of Word 97.

This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate

viruses in documents. The tendency for people to exchange Word
documents via email, USB key, and floppy makes this an
especially attractive vector. A prominent example is the Melissa
worm, but countless others have existed in the wild. Some anti-
virus software can detect and clean common macro viruses, and
firewalls may prevent worms from transmitting themselves to other
systems.

These Macro viruses are the only known cross-platform threats

between Windows and Macintosh computers and they were the
only infection vectors to affect any Mac OS X system up until the
advent of video codec trojans in 2007. Microsoft's released patches
for Word X and Word 2004 effectively eliminated the Macro
problem on the Mac by 2006.

Word's macro security setting, which regulates when macros may

execute, can be adjusted by the user, but in the most recent
versions of Word, is set to HIGH by default, generally reducing the
risk from macro-based viruses, which have become uncommon.

Layout issues

As of Word 2007 for Windows (and Word 2004 for Macintosh),

the program has been unable to handle ligatures defined in
TrueType fonts: those ligature glyphs with Unicode codepoints
may be inserted manually, but are not recognized by Word for
what they are, breaking spellchecking, while custom ligatures
present in the font are not accessible at all. Other layout
deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin
spaces. Various third-party workaround utilities have been
developed.[18] Similarly, combining diacritics are handled poorly:
Word 2003 has "improved support", but many diacritics are still
misplaced, even if a precomposed glyph is present in the font.
Additionally, as of Word 2002, Word does automatic font
substitution when it finds a character in a document that does not
exist in the font specified. It is impossible to deactivate this,
making it very difficult to spot when a glyph used is missing from
the font in use.

In Word 2004 for Macintosh, complex scripts support was inferior

even to Word 97, and Word does not support Apple Advanced
Typography features like ligatures or glyph variants. [19]

Bullets and numbering

Users report that Word's bulleting and numbering system is highly

problematic. Particularly troublesome is Word's system for
restarting numbering.[20] However, the Bullets and Numbering
system has been significantly overhauled for Office 2007, which is
intended to reduce the severity of these problems. For example,
Office 2007 cannot align tabs for multi-leveled numbered lists,
although this is a basic functionality in OpenOffice.org. Often,
items in a list will be inexplicably separated from their list number
by one to three tabs, rendering outlines unreadable. These
problems cannot be resolved even by expert users. Even basic
dragging and dropping words is usually impossible. Bullet and
numbering problems in Word include: bullet characters are often
changed and altered, indentation is changed within the same list,
and bullet point or number sequence can belong to an entirely
different nests within the same sequence.

Creating tables
Users can also create tables in MS Word. Depending on the
version, Word can perform simple calculations. Formulae are
supported as well.

AutoSummarize

AutoSummarize highlights passages or phrases that it considers

valuable. The amount of text to be retained can be specified by the
user as a percentage of the current amount of text.

According to Ron Fein of the Word 97 team, Auto Summarize cuts

wordy copy to the bone by counting words and ranking sentences.
First, AutoSummarize identifies the most common words in the
document (barring "a" and "the" and the like) and assigns a "score"
to each word--the more frequently a word is used, the higher the
score. Then, it "averages" each sentence by adding the scores of its
words and dividing the sum by the number of words in the
sentence--the higher the average, the higher the rank of the
sentence. "It's like the ratio of wheat to chaff," explains Fein. [21]

AutoCorrect

In Microsoft Office 2003, AutoCorrect items added by the user

cease working when text from sources outside the document is
pasted in
 MICROSOFT EXCEL

In computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office

Excel) consists of a proprietary spreadsheet-application written
and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS
X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and, except
for Excel 2008 for Mac OS X, a macro programming language
called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). It is overwhelmingly
the dominant spreadsheet application available for these platforms
and has been so since version 5 in 1993[citation needed], and is bundled
as part of Microsoft Office. Excel is one of the most popular
microcomputer applications to date.[vague]

Microsoft originally marketed a spreadsheet program called

Multiplan in 1982, which became very popular on CP/M systems,
but on MS-DOS systems it lost popularity to Lotus 1-2-3.
Redmond released the first version of Excel for the Mac in 1985,
and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the
Mac and bundled with a run-time Windows environment) in
November 1987. Lotus was slow to bring 1-2-3 to Windows and
by 1988 Excel had started to outsell 1-2-3 and helped Microsoft
achieve the position of leading PC software developer. This
accomplishment, dethroning the king of the software world,
solidified Microsoft as a valid competitor and showed its future of
developing GUI software. Microsoft pushed its advantage with
regular new releases, every two years or so. The current version for
the Windows platform is Excel 12, also called Microsoft Office
Excel 2007. The current version for the Mac OS X platform is
Microsoft Excel 2008.

Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary

file format called Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) as its
primary format.[4] Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its
primary file format, an XML-based format that followed after a
previous XML-based format called "XML Spreadsheet"
("XMLSS"), first introduced in Excel 2002.[5] The latter format is
not able to encode VBA macros.

Although supporting and encouraging the use of new XML-based

formats as replacements, Excel 2007 remained backwards-
compatible with the traditional, binary formats. In addition, most
versions of Microsoft Excel can read CSV, DBF, SYLK, DIF, and
other legacy formats.

Binary

Microsoft made the specification of the Excel binary format

specification available on request, but since February 2008
programmers can freely download the .XLS format specification
and implement it under the Open Specification Promise patent
licensing. [6]

Standard file-extensions

• spreadsheet: .xls
• add-in macro sheet: .xla
• toolbar: .xlb
• chart: .xlc
• dialog: .xld
• archive: .xlk
• dynamic link library: .xll
• macro: .xlm
• template: .xlt
• module; .xlv
• workbook: .xlw
 MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

Microsoft PowerPoint is a proprietary presentation program

developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office system,
and runs on Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS computer
operating systems. The Windows version can run in Linux
operating system, under the Wine compatibility layer.

PowerPoint is widely used by business people, educators, students,

and trainers and is among the most prevalent forms of persuasive
technology. Beginning with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft
revised the branding to emphasize PowerPoint's place within the
office suite, calling it Microsoft Office PowerPoint instead of just
Microsoft PowerPoint. The current versions are Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2007 for Windows and 2008 for Mac.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint was originally developed by Bob

Gaskin and software developer Dennis Austin under the name
Presenter for Forethought.[1]

Forethought released PowerPoint 1.0 for the Apple Macintosh in

April 1987. It ran in black and white, generating text-and-graphics
pages for overhead transparencies. A new full-color version of
PowerPoint shipped a year later after the first color Macintosh
came to market.

Microsoft Corporation purchased Forethought and its PowerPoint

software product for $14 million on July 31, 1987.[2] In 1990 the
first Windows versions were produced for Windows 3.0. Since
1990, PowerPoint has been included in Microsoft Office suite of
applications -- except for the Basic Editions of the suite.

PowerPoint presentations consist a number of individual pages or

"slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a
device that has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of
PowerPoint and other presentation software.

Slides may contain text, graphics, movies, and other objects, which
may be arranged freely on the slide. PowerPoint, however,
facilitates the use of a consistent style in a presentation using a
template or "Slide Master".

The presentation can be printed or displayed live on a computer

and navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger
audiences the computer display is often projected using a video
projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.

PowerPoint provides three types of movements:

1. Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are

controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations
2. Transitions, on the other hand are movements between slides.
These can be animated in a variety of ways
3. Custom animation can be used to create small story boards
by animating pictures to enter, exit or move

With callouts, speech bubbles with edited text can be sent on and
off to create speech. The overall design of a presentation can be
controlled with a master slide; and the overall structure, extending
to the text on each slide, can be edited using a primitive outliner.
 MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office

Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager
from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also

includes a Calendar, Task Manager, Contact Manager, note taking,
a journal and web browsing.

It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in

conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users
in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars,
Exchange public folders, Sharepoint lists and meeting time
allocation.

Outlook Express was bundled with Internet Explorer 4.0 at its

release in September 1997. It is the successor of Microsoft Internet
Mail and News, an early e-mail client add-on for Internet Explorer
3.0. Internet Mail and News handled only plain text and rich text
(RTF) e-mail, it lacked HTML e-mail.

At one point, in a later beta version of Outlook Express 5, Outlook

Express contained a sophisticated and adaptive spam filtering
system; however this feature was removed shortly before launch. It
was speculated on various websites and newsgroups at that time,
that the feature was not stable enough for the mass market. Nearly
two years later, a similar system, using a similar method of
adaptive filtering, appeared as a feature of Microsoft Office
Outlook.

Internet Explorer 5 required Outlook Express 5 to save Web

Archive files (see MHTML) due to a API. [1]
Outlook Express SP3 is the latest version which is part of
Windows XP SP3. Extended support for Windows XP SP3 which
covers security hotfixes, will end in 2014.

In October 2005, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista would

exclusively include a new application named Windows Mail, based
on large parts of Outlook Express source code. Microsoft was also
concurrently developing Windows Live Mail Desktop (later
renamed to Windows Live Mail), a mail client for its Hotmail
service. Windows Live Mail was released in November 2007. In
the future, support for Outlook Express and Windows Mail will be
discontinued in favor of Windows Live Mail.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY

www.google.com

www.wikipaedia.com
 CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Microsoft Office

2. Microsoft Word

3. Microsoft Excel

4. Microsoft PowerPoint

5. Microsoft Outlook
 TEAM MEMBERS

1. Nishtha Shrivastava 47

2. Manali Shah 59

3. Vijayalakshmi Narayanan 23
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