Computer Skills and Knowledge

Running Head: Computer Skills and Knowledge
Computer Assignment

Computer Skills and Knowledge 1
Task 2.3
In today’s world of technological advancements, businesses are going digital on the rapid
basis so as to expand the scope of their business on a global level and to achieve competitive
edges in the intensely competitive market. The use of various computer programmes and their
functions can help a business achieve heights if the managers have proper skills and
knowledge to apply them to their real business case.
Microsoft office has various applications with each having a different and specific purpose.
Microsoft solutions and the innovative and intelligent platform offered my MS office enables
the hospitality industry to grow exponentially. The three major applications of the MS office
software are: MS Word MS Excel and MS Power-point.
MS Word:
 Graphical and table tools:
This tool helps the students to prepare their assignment reports in more attractive and
presentable as the use of graphics and tables enhances the communicative values of the
content of the student’s assignment files. Various graphs, charts and tables can be inserted in
the files using these graphic tools so as to summarise the data of the long content files. There
are different font styles and colours available in the word graphic tools so as to make the
work more presentable (M-Files, 2016).
 Spelling and grammar check tool:
This tool enables the students to form correct sentences in their assignment reports which
enhance their sentence structuring and grammar skills. The synonym feature in word helps
the student to enhance their vocabulary. This tool identifies the incorrectly framed sentences

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and provides the suggestions to make the required corrections. Also, the incorrect spellings
are also identified under this tool so as to avoid minor mistakes.
MS Excel:
 Graphs and charts:
This tool helps in creation of charts and tables for the complex data so that it can easily be
interpreted by the readers. Also, it helps in analysing the large volume data in a simplified
manner though the use of charts and diagrams (M-Files, 2016).
For example if the student is preparing a report on different costs associated with different
travelling plans, they can make use of charts and tables to show summary cost statements of
all the possible travelling plans.
 Formula tool:
This tool can be used by the student to make various calculations with the use of simple and
guided formula functions in the spread-sheets of MS excel. This tool provides various
functions such as identification of sums, averages etc. The students can use this tool for
various purposes such as to undertake what-if analysis, simulation analysis etc. The ‘what if’
analysis can help the students to figure out different possible outcomes in the different
scenarios (Microsoft, 2018)
MS Power-point:
 Slide presentations:
This tool helps in making attractive presentation on the entire project prepared by the student
on the given topic. The different layouts are provided in this tool for the slide preparation and
one of the most unique features of this tool is that it provides consistency throughout the slide