Microsoft Office

Office is Microsoft's collection of applications and services that are designed to help you accomplish office related tasks. These tasks include managing:

• spreadsheets
• presentations
• documents
• email

Microsoft Office was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

You can access Office on a variety of devices, even a smartphone. Although viewing documents, spreadsheets and presentations on a smartphone is possible, you would need a bigger device to edit them easily.

Core Apps And Services

• Microsoft Word - a word processor. File extension .docx. Supports Portable Document Format (PDF) and OpenDocument (ODF).
• Microsoft Excel - a spreadsheet editor. File extension .xlsx.
• Microsoft PowerPoint - a presentation program. File extension .pptx.
• Microsoft Outlook - a personal information manager, though most people see Outlook as an email program.
• Microsoft OneNote - a notetaking program that gathers handwritten or typed notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries.
• Microsoft OneDrive - a file hosting service.
• Skype for Business - an integrated communications client for conferences and meetings in real-time.
• Microsoft Teams - an application that combines meetings, workplace chat, notes, and attachments. Microsoft announced that Teams would eventually replace Skype for Business.

Microsoft Office Tutorials

• Microsoft Word Tutorials
• Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorials
• Excel Tutorials
• PowerPoint Tutorials
• Outlook Training
• OneNote Video Training
• OneDrive Video Training
• Getting Started With Skype
• Microsoft Teams Video Training