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(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)
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What you can do |
Recommended you do it with Choices: 1=1st choice, 2=2nd 3=3rd Choice |
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Advanced calculations, Graphs, Charts, Advanced data analysis, basic databases. |
Excel |
Access |
Other |
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Basic calculations, Invoices, Quotes |
Excel |
Access |
Word |
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Children's word processing ..etc |
Microsoft Kids |
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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) |
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Data retrieval, data analysis, charts, reports |
Access |
Excel |
Word . |
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Diagrams, Text and/or pictures |
PowerPoint |
Word |
Excel |
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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 |
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Outlook Express |
Outlook |
Microsoft Exchange |
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Envelopes, Labels |
Word |
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Flowcharts |
Visio |
Word |
Excel |
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Letters, memos |
Word |
PowerPoint |
Excel |
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Mail Merging |
Word |
Access |
Excel |
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Optical Character Recognition scanning |
Textbridge Pro (through Word) |
Textbridge Classic (through Word) |
Other OCR programs |
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Picture Scanning & manipulation |
Paint Shop Pro |
Any paint program |
Word / Excel PowerPoint/Access (scan only) |
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Picture Telephone, Video Mail, Video, TV, Camcorder, Digital Camera |
ACER Teleconferencing Kit - software plus card and camera. |
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Pictures with text |
Word |
PowerPoint |
Excel |
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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 |
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Programming: C |
Microsoft Visual C++ |
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Programming: Java |
Java (original JAVA programming from Sun Microsystems) |
Microsoft Visual Java |
Borland Visual Java |
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Programming: Visual Basic |
Microsoft Visual Basic |
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Project Management |
Microsoft Project |
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Slides, Slide shows |
PowerPoint |
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Sorting data |
Excel |
Word (using Tables) |
Access |
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Video clips |
Microsoft Media Player-(incorporated into Windows) |
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Video films |
Any manufacturer DVD drive with MPEG card, or DVD drive with MPEG or DVD video card. Software provided with DVD drive |
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Voice Recognition |
Dragon Dictates |
True Talk |
Any voice recognition software |
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Web Page authoring |
Word |
Microsoft Frontpage or Frontpage Express |
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World Wide Web |
Microsoft Internet Explorer (incorporated in to Windows) |
Netscape Navigator |
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