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Office Programs

What Are Office Programs?

An Office Program is a suite of programs that include, but not limited to: Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation and Database Management.

Some programs will require a one-off payment or a subscription, while others are free and open source. Office programs can be either installed on your PC or run in the Cloud from your browser.

- Microsoft Office & Microsoft 365 Subscription Service. Which include: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook & Access

Microsoft Office and Office 365 are Paid Programs. However, Word, Excel and Powerpoint can be used On-Line for free in your Microsoft Account - One Drive -

Free Programs:

- Apple's Office Suite include Pages for Word Processing, Numbers for Spreadsheets & Keynote for presentations; all available for free on Apple Devices.

- Libre Office or Apache Open Office. Which include: Writer for Word Processing, Calc for Spreadsheets, Draw for Vector Graphics, Base for Data Base Management and Math (formula editor). Open source and free to download and use.

- OnlyOffice - A new Office suite that includes documents, spreadsheets, presentations and a PDF editor.

In the Cloud:

- Microsoft OneDrive: Word, Excel & Power Point

- Google Drive has many applications including Docs (word processing), Sheets (spreadsheets), Slides (presentations).

Books:

Calibre E-Book Reader and Converter

Links to Various Office Sites:

Office How To Guide

 

 

Special Characters - ASCII/Unicode - Number Systems

 

 

Email

EMAIL can be accessed in two ways: Web-Mail by using your browser OR using an Email Program installed on your PC.

EMAIL Programs: Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail - Just to name three, there are many others.

There are Three different versions of Outlook: Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Outlook & Outlook.com

Windows 11 come with Windows Outlook preinstalled. Linux Mint comes with Thunderbird and Apple comes with Apple Mail preinstalled.

Your Internet Service Provided will give you a free email address, but I strongly recommend you do not use this. If you change ISP you will have to change your email address.

I recommend setting up a Free Gmail Address or a Free Microsoft (outlook) Address.

 

 

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