The Role of Applications: A Reflection
In an office environment, there have been many wants and needs to boost productivity over the years. In the early days, physical inventions such as staplers and typewriters were some of the most significant ways to increase throughput by helping with writing and organization. With the advent of the modern personal computer, we often see more virtual inventions, such as applications designed to help improve the productivity of the office. Although there are alternatives, the Microsoft 365 suite provides three huge tools to help catalyze productivity: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Each application has its specific intended uses and offers numerous benefits over the less electronic or manual versions of performing those tasks. Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a staple word-processing application in office environments. Word was invented in the 1980s as Microsoft attempted to enter the word-processing market (Dziak, 2023c). The application's intended use cases often revolve around c