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Week Two Assignment One

Exercise one of week two called for class members to document a day in the life using the word processing application Microsoft Word in part one in a journal. Calculating the time spent during the operation of each activity during the day was done in part two of the assignment, while using the application PowerPoint to create a slideshow that visually depicts the tasks captured in a Word journal. Part three was for creating a PowerPoint presentation of the activities in the journal, and part four is for reflecting on the role of each application.

Dr. Flores gave feedback of each of the four areas of the assignment written in the above paragraph. He mentioned the function of Excel, PowerPoint and Word along with the primary functions of each program.

Below is a portion of the assignment that I submitted. It has several descriptions of the the Microsoft Office programs required for the assignment.

 Microsoft Word is a word processor program that allows users to type passages that can be easily manipulated by accessing many features that make one's writing stand out. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that can render sums from numbers put together as a formula – statistics, lists, and addition are a couple of the types of math Excel can perform without flaw. Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017),

Many features within PowerPoint could greatly assist a user that requires access to slideshows and presentations. Comparing PowerPoint to Excel and Word has always been challenging because each program is different and has  

Word: This word processing program has many features, such as editing and providing users with grammar and spell-check; however, these editing features are only as good as the data stored within the program.   

Excel: Designed to organize and analyze data to make studying databases easier. A key feature of Excel is its ability to render statistical values from data input into its cells. A con of this process is that it can be challenging to find and utilize the required formulas. Navigating cells can be challenging, but with practice, one can accomplish much more with this program than they could without it.

PowerPoint: This presentation program has been used in companies and schools worldwide as the premier presentation program.  PowerPoint is a slide-based interface; this program can incorporate pictures and animation as a couple of its most used features. One of the cons of this program is that it does not have any ability to make slides that can perform any active function such as math. Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017).