Do you know how to use all the programs in Microsoft Office?

[chizzuk]

I’m pretty good with Word, adequate with PowerPoint, and can use Excel to make a simple graph or apply simple formulas to small basic data sets. I can use basic functionality on Outlook.

I don’t even know what Access or Publisher do. I don’t think I’ve ever opened them.

[JerrySTL]

I was a Microsoft MVP for Access for 4 years. I even made a living creating Access databases for a few years. Plus I taught Access at a local college for 16 years. Been using it since Version 1 back in the early '90s.

Word - I use it daily.

Same goes with Outlook as I have it at work and home.

Excel - Somewhat. If I can get Access to do the job, I’ll use it instead. It’s the old “if you only have a hammer, everything start looking like a nail” thing.

I haven’t used PowerPoint in over a decade and hope to never use it again.

I’ve worked with MS Project in the past.

[Thudlow_Boink]

I can do everything I need to do with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, though I’m sure each has features I’m not even aware of. In each case, I figured out what I needed to know pretty much just by working with them, with occasional help from the Internet. I suppose I could do the same for the other programs if I ever had any use for them.

[gaffa]

@JerrySTL

Excel - Somewhat. If I can get Access to do the job, I’ll use it instead. It’s the old “if you only have a hammer, everything start looking like a nail” thing.

Most extreme example of that I’ve ever seen was the guy I knew who used Lotus 123 as a word processor.

[JohnT]

@dalej42

I consider myself to be a fairly well educated person. I work for a large brokerage firm and I can easily navigate the software programs I use for work and if there was a change, I think I’d easily adapt. I’m an idiot when it comes to using other software, such as Office.

I have no idea how to do a powerpoint.

My Excel skills are probably less than the average 5th grader. I can open a sheet and put numbers in, but that’s about it.

I can use Word to write letters and maybe a resume.

If Outlook is still considered part of office, I can use it to manage emails, I can create folders and assign certain emails to be directed to folders. I have to look up how to create an out of office message as well as change my signature, but I can do these tasks.

I can use the standard suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint) including:

Project
Visio
Access
Publisher
MapPoint

I don’t use any of them to anywhere near their full capabilities, but if you needed me to do a Gantt chart in Project, a flowchart in Visio, a family newsletter in Publisher, or a small database in Access, I would have no problem with those tasks.

[StGermain]

I’m above average in Access and Excel, and probably high average in Word and Office. I’m mediocre, but can find my way around PowerPoint, Visio, Sharepoint, and MapPoint.

StG

[Zsofia]

I’m a public librarian. I don’t just have to know them all, I have to teach classes on them! (Except Access, although I do know a little in there.)

[interface2x]

I use Excel the majority of every work day so I’m an advanced user there. Word I use sparingly so I’m a little less knowledgeable. Powerpoint isn’t a problem though I don’t really use all the features. Access I can do advanced functions but most of the time it’s just easier to use SQL.

[epbrown01]

I’m pretty good in everything but Publisher, which we never used at work. I was pretty much the guy everyone on our floor came and got for pc or Office problems - often to translate for tech support. I got really good with Access but changed jobs and haven’t touched it in years, and I created a Powerpoint template that let you make most subjects into a game of Jeopardy! I did it as a joke for a compliance presentation, and for years after people showed up asking me to tweak it or show them how to input their subject matter. The trickiest part was getting the Final Jeopardy theme to play… I still remember being flabbergasted that no one got a question that said something like “The time period this procedure has to be completed within, or the title of a hit by the Barenaked Ladies.” That was like a TV Guide crossword level clue! :smack:

[dracoi]

I can find my way around all the Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher. Some of my familiarity with them comes from experience in that genre of software - for example, I don’t use Outlook much per se, but it’s basically a calendar, to-do, contacts and e-mail app, and they all work pretty much the same way. (In fact, the introduction of the ribbons to MS Office was a bigger learning curve than switching between Apple Mail and Outlook.)

I’m not really a power user in anything but Word. I’ve used Word for headers, footers, foot notes, tables of contents, hyperlinks/bookmarks, embedded documents, you name it. I taught Word to a college classroom (though admittedly that was 20 years ago). In high school, I designed a Word/Excel mail merge system that a real wholesaler used to process $5 million worth of Christmas-season orders to their retailers.