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Productivity applications on your computer include software for creating word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and graphics.
5. Microsoft Access 7. Dreamweaver
8. VirusScan
1. Overview of Desktop Applications
Your computer's hard drive contains various programs for creating and editing files, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and graphical images. These programs can be accessed from within My Computer where they are stored, or from the Start menu which contains easy shortcuts to these programs. Other programs stored on your computer may not be listed under your Start menu, but you can access them by looking on your hard drive.Information Services provides a tremendous amount of on-line documentation for most software programs on your computer. For more information on using various programs, visit the main Computing help pages at http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/pc.html.
2. Microsoft Word
Word is Microsoft's powerful word processing program. You can use many of Word's functions with only a basic knowledge of the program, such as opening and saving documents, adding and editing text, changing formatting, etc. However, Word is also a multi-featured program which can be used for many complex tasks, including publishing, graphics work, mail merging, etc.
Below are some useful sites on the CWIS about Microsoft Word:
- For basics on using Word, refer to: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Office02/Word02/word02.html
3. Microsoft Excel
Excel is a program for creating and modifying spreadsheets, for use with organizing numerical information and generating graphical representations of data. Excel is primarily used for generating budgets, organizing sets of data, performing simple analyses, and creating charts and graphs from data sets.
For more information on using Excel, refer to: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Office02/Excel02/excel02.html
4. Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint lets you create colorful and dynamic presentations for the purposes of teaching or giving a lecture. These presentations are either kept in electronic form and displayed on a computer screen, printed out on overhead transparencies, or converted to slides and displayed with a slide projector. You can use PowerPoint's extensive on-line help and tutorial features for assistance in using the program.
For more information on using PowerPoint, refer to: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Office02/Powerpoint02/pp02.html
Filemaker Pro is an application that let you create database made up of records. You can find, sort, and update information, and create reports in the database. You can also share the database with colleagues over a network. This application is supported on both PC and Mac platforms.
For a tutorial on using Filemaker Pro, refer to: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Filemaker/filemaker4_tutorial.html.
For more information on using Filemaker Pro, refer to: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Filemaker/filemaker4_ref.html.
Dreamweaver MX is a more sophisticated visual editor for creating and managing Web sites and pages. With Dreamweaver, it is easy to create and edit cross-platform, cross-browser pages. Dreamweaver provides advanced design and layout tools and allows users to utilize Dynamic HTML features, such as animated layers and behaviors, without writing code.
For more information on using Macromedia Dreamweaver, refer to:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Dreamweaver/dreamweaverMXwhatsnew.html.
8. VirusScan
VirusScan 7 is the standard virus protection software at Wellesley College for PCs . Viruses are small computer programs that alter your hard drive or floppy disks in various ways. Some can cause extensive damage while others are mere nuisances. Like biological viruses they are difficult to detect and may be transmitted to other computers or disks. For instance, if you insert a floppy disk which contains an infected file into your computer, your computer may also become infected and you may lose valuable information. Protection from computer viruses, therefore, is very important.
Viruses are transmitted through infected floppy disks, infected files downloaded from the Internet, and infected documents attached to E-mail messages. (Note that you cannot get a virus simply by reading a text-only E-mail message.)
The College has a site license for so that all staff and students can install VirusScan on their office and home computers to guard against viruses.
For more information on viruses and virus protection visit: http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/TVD/.
Access is a program for managing your data. You can share your
database with coworkers over a network, find and retrieve information
quickly, and take advantage of automated, pre-packaged solutions to quickly
create databases.