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What 'n' With

(What you can do on your PC and what leading product you can do it with)

Note: most products here are from Microsoft because in most categories, theirs are the leading products - apologies to those people who have an irrational dislike of Bill Gates or Microsoft)

What you can do

Recommended you do it with

Choices: 1=1st choice, 2=2nd 3=3rd Choice

 

1

2

3

Advanced calculations, Graphs, Charts, Advanced data analysis, basic databases.

Excel

Access

Other

Basic calculations, Invoices, Quotes

Excel

Access

Word

Children's word processing ..etc

Microsoft Kids

   

Computer - Computer communications

Via Telephone

Microsoft Dial-Up Networking (incorporated into Windows, if setup)

Local Area Network Network cards & cable using Client for Microsoft Networks (incorporated into Windows, if setup)

Direct Cable Cable from port to port. Microsoft Direct Cable Connection

(incorporated into Windows, if setup)

Data retrieval, data analysis, charts, reports

Access

Excel

Word .

Diagrams, Text and/or pictures

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Edutainment (educational games)

Microsft supply a full range of these (look on your Windows95/98 CD for demos)

Several software companies specialize in these - Check in computer magazines or with Volume One bookshop (UK) or any national bookstore or from Amazon.com

Email

Outlook Express

Outlook

Microsoft Exchange

Envelopes, Labels

Word

   

Flowcharts

Visio

Word

Excel

Letters, memos

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Mail Merging

Word

Access

Excel

Optical Character Recognition scanning

Textbridge Pro (through Word)

Textbridge Classic (through Word)

Other OCR programs

Picture Scanning & manipulation

Paint Shop Pro

Any paint program

Word / Excel PowerPoint/Access (scan only)

Picture Telephone, Video Mail, Video, TV, Camcorder, Digital Camera

ACER Teleconferencing Kit - software plus card and camera.

   

Pictures with text

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Programming : Visual Basic for Applications VBA

Excel

Access

Word

VBA is also in other Microsoft applications: e.g: MS Project, PowerPoint and most other Microsoft products

Programming: C

Microsoft Visual C++

   

Programming: Java

Java (original JAVA programming from Sun Microsystems)

Microsoft Visual Java

Borland Visual Java

Programming: Visual Basic

Microsoft Visual Basic

   

Project Management

Microsoft Project

   

Slides, Slide shows

PowerPoint

   

Sorting data

Excel

Word (using Tables)

Access

Video clips

Microsoft Media Player-(incorporated into Windows)

   

Video films

Any manufacturer DVD drive with MPEG card, or DVD drive with MPEG or DVD video card. Software provided with DVD drive

Voice Recognition

Dragon Dictates

True Talk

Any voice recognition software

Web Page authoring

Word

Microsoft Frontpage or Frontpage Express

 

World Wide Web

Microsoft Internet Explorer (incorporated in to Windows)

Netscape Navigator

 

 

 

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