There are many different applications that a person can use to document the activities that they complete each day. Microsoft publishes an excellent software suite called Microsoft Office that has just about any style of application a person would need to document anything that needs to be documented . Our class was instructed to make a journal entry using Word, an activity spreadsheet using Excel, a database using Access, and a presentation using PowerPoint. Each piece of software has their specific use and their unique ways to format the data they are provided . Microsoft Word is the software solution that Microsoft published for its word processor. A word processor is generally used for documents that are supposed to be read from beginning to end. Some common documents that a person would create within Word are journal entries, essays, research papers, explanations of the files from other Office programs, and special formatted documents ...