office questions

we're using pretty much the whole suite: word, excel, powerpoint, outlook; as well as two of the "other office apps," visio and project.

- i will argue until i'm blue in the face that excel is perhaps the best application that microsoft ever embraced and extended.

- we can't live without word's track changes features.

- project, despite all its flaws, can actually help scope projects and help with the esimtation process quite effectively...

- powerpoint, of course. what else is there to say?

- outlook, of course, though i'm not a fan of it as a mail client.

there are a whole host of other more *interesting* reasons why we have adopted others, but they're pretty much summed up in two words -- network effects.

I use Word. I like Word. A lot of my clients use Excel. I use Excel. I like Excel. I use Access on a couple of small web services. They don't get much traffic, so Access is fine for that. But once one of those small web services starts to grow, it gets moved to MSSQL in a hurry. I would imagine that most people use Office because they got it from work, their peers and/or family uses it...etc....etc...

My firm uses it. I don't know why.
I use Word, Access, Excel, and Powerpoint. And Internet Explorer. Email client is Lotus Notes instead of Outlook. I hope that information helps. :) At least 50% of my day is spent in Access.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook/Entourage. Also, Access.

Me, I just use Word, and only when I absolutely have to.

I work for a school district and we use Office in our administrative offices and Windows-based schools because "that's what you use on Windows". We use Office in our Mac-based schools because the translation tools for going from AppleWorks to Office and back aren't so great. We just got a shiny new site license for Office. It will be the first time that Office has been actually promoted as a standard.

The apps I use (as a web developer) are Word, Outlook, Excel (but only for opening files that other people send me), and I'm learning Project.

I only use Word when I'm creating documentation that requires nice formatting. But I tend to do my first draft of everything in a text editor, then drop it into word and format it.

I think the best version of Word was version 4 on the Mac. I'm curmudgeonly that way.

I agree with Michael, Excel is about the most useful app Microsoft ever made-and I rarely use it as a spreadsheet.

I just started using Word for OSX and I like it more than the notepad.exe-like applications I have always sworn by.

My company uses Office because a long time ago someone at the parent company we branched off of decided to switch from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange.

I work in hospital records and we work with the entire office suite. I've heard rumors about openoffice, but I'll believe it when I see it.

At home, I only use word, and only when I must. Unlike andre, I would rather use my favorite notepad like application any day over word. It's quicker and does what I need, nothing more.

I use Outlook. I could not live without Outlook. I live in Outlook.
Yeah, I use Word & Excel, too.
But I love Outlook.

when i worked in an office, we used everything. word, powerpoint, outlook, access, excel, etc. we also used project, visio, and i think someone might have used publisher.

jeez, no wonder i quit.

The college I teach at is a "Microsoft-Partner", which of course means that everything is Microsoft.

Add to that the fact that the Computer Services department at the school is blatantly paranoid of anything "Not Microsoft" (Macs, Linux, Unix, Open Source, etc.) and you have a recipe for frustration. Luckily my department (Creative Arts) is platform agnostic, and we have our own support techs... but it's a challenge.

A perfect example: the programming department still teaches Frontpage as a viable way to put Web pages together. Shudder.

We use Office at the U of Alberta. I think we have a contract with Microsoft. I have it at home as well, came with the Dell 4400. We use Outlook there, and I use it at home. Also use Word and Excel, and Powerpoint for teaching.

lets see, my work involves lots of customer support by email(am the only guy around)...so it has to be Outlook, which i use the most!

Then being a CFA
student makes me use excel too and ofcourse the occasional MSword during "report makeout" sessions.

so much for productivity!!

powerpoint, powerpoint, powerpoint. my company is a slave to powerpoint; it owns our souls. then comes ms word, but that's about it.

because i work with designers, my group is pretty much an even split between macs and pcs. our souls are more tied towards adobe -- photoshop, illustrator, indesign.

I use Outlook constantly, and it's pretty decent. I try to avoid it, but sometimes I have to use Word and Excel and Visio. Visio is fun, if not simple. Excel is fantastic, but I don't know that I use anything that 1-2-3, Quattro, or the free spreadsheets wouldn't offer. Word is obnoxious and painful. I hate it, but what experience I've had with WordPro and WordPerfect make me believe it could only be worse.

My employer has standardized on all Microsoft products because Microsoft is solid and Microsoft has a large market share (we're a university, so the students "need" to learn the dominant software), and because the products integrate into Windows and the MS server products we use better than anything else and because we can get a better deal on a huge site license for all MS products than we could by picking and choosing other products, unless they were all freeware, and even though I hear free office suites are pretty decent, these old geezers would never be comfortable saving a million dollars if it meant we would have no official tech support, not that MS gives any such thing away.

Oh, I guess a lot of teachers use powerpoint. Blech, it could be a lot simpler and I'd be happy. I haven't had to use it, but for what it does, there's really few options.

For us people who can't spell, the integration of Word (and its automatic correction of commonly missspelled words) into the Outlook email client is a godsend.

The office (~35 employees) I consult for uses Office because it's entrenched. They use Word, maybe half a dozen tinker with Excel but don't really understand it. They could be moved to OpenOffice pretty easily, and someday I might recommend it...