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Chapter Three
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3.1 Application software
Application software is a type of software used directly by a
user.
Some of mostly used application software includes Word
processing, presentation software, spreadsheet software,
desktop publishing software and database management
software.
3.2 Word processing
Word processing application software is used to process,
create, edit, format, copy, save and print document including,
but not limited to, reports, letters, memos, newsletters and
brochures.
A file created using Microsoft Office Word is known as a
document.
paragraph is a collection of words, numbers or any combination
of them.
Formatting a paragraph can be a little combination of different
commands. These include:
Indention
Alignments
Bulleting and Numbering
Line and Paragraph Spacing.
To format a paragraph, you can use a command found in
paragraph section of Home tab.
Page break is a location in a document where one-page ends
and a new page begins and there are two types of page break,
namely manual and automatic.
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Automatic page break is done automatically by the software
program when it reaches to the end of the page.
A manual page break is done when the part of a paragraph
extends more than a page and, the document editor wants it to
be in the same page.
Page numbering is used to identify each page in a document,
and a document can have more than one page numbering
styles, especially if it has more than one section such as cover
page, contents and body of the document.
Headers and Footers contain additional information about
the document and they will appear by default in each of the
documents at the top and the bottom part of a document
respectively.
3.3 Microsoft Office Excel
To manipulate tabular data and calculation, the best application
software to be used is Microsoft Office Excel.
MS Excel file created for managing data in tabular form is
called worksheet.
Excel differentiates data and formula by equal sign, i.e. if a
data has equal sign, then the data is a formula.
Excel formula can contain relative or absolute cell reference
which identifies a cell’s location absolutely without change and
relative change according to the locations of the formula
respectively.
3.4 Presentation software
Presentation software is application software that enables
you to organize and present information.
Microsoft PowerPoint is one of presentation software.
In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can manage the layout of
slide, apply theme, change slide background, and add tables,
charts, SmartArts, pictures, online picturesand video contents.
A presentation package helps both the speaker and the
participant with access to his/her ideas and visual information
respectively.
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After launching the PowerPoint application, we can create a
PowerPoint using new option of file tab, open option of file tab
or using recent that displays a list of recently created
presentations.
