Automation in My Home

Currently I am not employed (paid) by an organization. There is another organization in where I work and the pay is not monetary but yet is rewarding in many other ways. My pay is having a family. I have never really thought about automation in the home until I was tasked with this assignment. Then I started to think about it. There are things that are automated in the home that we use everyday and take for granted. I will discuss a few of the programs that are in my organization that are helping make things a little easier in our home.

One thing that I currently use and have used in the past is the Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft Office has progressed and has so many features within all of the applications that are automated. The system includes a word processor (Microsoft Office), spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel), email application (Microsoft Outlook), database (Microsoft Access), publishing software (Microsoft Publisher), and presentation platform (Microsoft Power Point). In addition to the Microsoft Office Suite I am able to utilize another automation tool that Microsoft has put out, which a financial package is called Microsoft Money. I will now briefly discuss each of the programs that I am able to use in the most profitable organization that anyone can have.

Microsoft Word is a program that is most commonly used to write reports, term papers and memorandums. It is a very east to use and user friendly word processor where if you need help it is right there at your finger tips. There is even a wizard that will help you with many of the most common tasks that one would need to do and a convenient help feature that connects directly online to find an answer for you. The fact that Word is easily transportable by email and how they set up the feature is very user friendly. While in word and there is a need to email the document you are working on you simply click on an envelope icon that will take your document and automatically put it into an email. While you can still manually open up outlook and add it as an attachment Microsoft has automated the process for you. For college students there is a word count feature, and in the 2007 edition, there are guidelines that help the meet the APA or MLA standards of citing references.