Documenting a Day

After exploring part of the world that Microsoft has to offer in applications, it still amazes me the many different uses that they have. Word Processor is the universal tool, in my opinion, that can be used for everything you need. Letters, resumes, thesis papers, and so many more options. While Excel is number one in spreadsheets and configuring equations to autofill for you and Power Point is so much fun to play around with when having to come up with a presentation that sometimes it doesn’t even feel like work. Vahid and Lysecky (2017) pointed out that “Work or school presentations are often accompanied by a slideshow to help the audience visualize information” (Section 5.3, para 1). The visualization can do so much for those who can’t learn by just looking in a book.

Of course, with every advantage, comes a disadvantage. There will never be such a thing as the perfect program because our wants and needs are constantly changing. Word has so much to offer but sometimes I feel that things are hidden. I have had to google how to do certain tasks in Word because the choices weren’t where I thought they would be. Excel can be tricky if you don’t use it very often and I am constantly deleting a cell without meaning to. Thankfully there is an undo button, but sometimes I have to go back and recalculate a whole section because of a mistake. PowerPoint is great for making slides and working on presentations, but there is a lot of screen switching to do different parts of your project which can get frustrating.

When Documenting my day, Word was definitely the easiest program to use. I could do easily do the writing application aspects of my assignment while being able to add in different charts, pictures, or graphs if needed. Like I have mentioned previously, Word is the overall everyday user-friendly program that the majority of people are confident in using. However, if I were working on setting up a document to balance my checkbook or accounting measures at work, it would definitely be in my best interest to device an Excel spreadsheet to meet my needs. As Vahid and Lysecky (2017) said “An important spreadsheet feature allows a user to type a formula in a cell to compute that cell's value based on other cells' values” (Section 5.2, para 2). PowerPoint while working great to set up a slideshow to showcase the differences between programs was very beneficial in creating a class project for my middle schooler and her classmates to showcase how each of them would help others and stay active while not being able to attend classes for the remainder of the school year. 

References:

Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017). Computing technology for all. Retrieved from zybooks.zyante.com/