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Organisers like SideKick 98 are an excellenct way of
keeping appointments, names, addresses, lists of things to do and so on.		 Presentation programs like Microsoft PowerPoint can be used to create compelling slide shows.
  perhaps some background music, or a short video clip that
will also play on the computer screen. These programs are
great for presenting to any kind of group, wheather it's a club
or society, or a parents' evening.

Desktop publishing

These programs allow you to produce professional looking documents. They're excellent for creating club newsletters,
invitations, cards, adverbs, business cards, stationery,
posters, gift tags and so on. You can incorporate colour
pictures and photos and use many of the same layout
techniques that you see in magazines and newspapapers.
 

Suites
 

The office suite is a collection of programs (usually a word
processor, a spreadsheet and a database) designed by the
same company. The programs look and feel similar, so
when you've worked out the basic functions (saving, printing,
copying, moving and so on) in one, you know how the others
will work. The programs in office suites are also good at
swapping information between each other.
   

Presentation software

  
Remember the school overhead projector? Presentation
programs are their modem equivalent. You use them to
assemble slide shows on the computer, creating each slide
with colourful graphics, the message of you text, and
 
 
 
Desktop publishing programs like Serif PagePlus Intro can porduce effective results like this birthday card.   These are many kinds of graphics program. Here Corel Xara is used for producing images for display on a Web site.