IT for Education

As much as PowerPoint remains top of the pile when it comes to presentation apps the rest of the MS Office suite is also heavily utilised in education. Word is of course the most commonly used one by a long shot. Most types of document we work with are Word files, from assignment briefs to the reams of redundant, badly designed templates handed down as gospel. The overarching problem with Word isn't so much Word itself - as a document layout application it's pretty good. It has a huge range of features (so long as you can find them) and is capable of creating very tight, nicely designed documents. Its templating system has had quite the overhaul over the last couple of releases and can deal with all sorts of forms, hand-outs and official red-tape stuff. It also has a good built-in system for dealing with referencing and automating various tasks. What sucks about Word is that everyone tries to use it for things it was not meant to do. The thing is, Word can do a LOT of th...