Recruitment of Artisan Trainees and Lab Assistant Trainees (130 posts)

NTPC Limited is India’s largest power company with an installed capacity of 43,128 MW. To
realise the vision of becoming a world class power major, NTPC has plans to become a 128000
MW Company by 2032.

WHY MS OFFICE?

Research showed that most of the work done by most of the people could be categorized into the following categories:

Word Processing: If you want to write letter, memos, newsletters, invoices, fax messages, etc. on a computer you need a word processor. A word processor like MS work does what it says – processes words or text. By processing words, we mean that through this software you can type your text and then edit, modify, delete or print it. Perhaps the biggest advantage in case of a word processor is what is called ‘electronic cut and paste’, which means that once having typed the matter you move and shuffle it around almost like bricks.

WHAT IS MS OFFICE?

Window and MS Office are Microsoft’s two most popular programs. One is an operating system and the other a bundle suite comprising MS Word (word processor), MS Excel (spread sheet), MS PowerPoint (graphic presentation program), MS Publisher. Together, these two flagship programs have a world wide grip and a near monopoly over the personal computer packaged software market. Not only are they the most preferred and widely used programs in this segment, they have become a benchmark against which all other products are evaluated.

Microsoft Office Professional is a collection of programs and packages that, in spite of their size and complexity, work very well together. Ardent fans of MS Office claim that it meets ninety percent of all computer software requirements for ninety percent of user, ninety percent of times.

From your (and my) point of view, this simply means that once having learnt and mastered these packages, in spite of a high rate of technological obsolescence in the computer industry, the skills acquired would never go waste. No matter where you work and what you do, MS Office would be of great use to you.

I rather like MS office. I started working on computers when Kilobytes was considered sufficient, Megabytes were considered huge and Gigabytes were unheard of. People had to work with a cryptic operation system called MS-DOD. Programs did not talk to each other, at least not easily and sharing information between various packages was arduous. It could be done, but only if you were a pro!

Things have changed since. Programs have become friendly, not only towards users but also amongst themselves. Now you need not take computers seriously, to do serious work on computers.