Across
- 5. Applications designed to help individual computer users complete tasks more efficiently. Examples are word processors, spreadsheet programs, and database applications.
- 7. A group of application software programs that are designed to work well together and are sold together as a package (for example, Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, Apache OpenOffice, and Lotus SmartSuite).
- 8. A software application that is so useful and popular that it fuels sales of the hardware type or operating system for which it was written.
- 9. A collection of information that is organized by field, record, and table so that a computer can quickly select desired pieces of the data. A field is one piece of data, a record is one complete set of fields, and a table is a group of records with the same fields of information.
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- 1. A software application that organizes data values using cells, with the relationships between cells defined by formulas; commonly used for budgeting and financial forecasting.
- 2. A software application used for creating and manipulating text-based documents.
- 3. interactive utility program within a software application that guides a user step by step through a particular task.
- 4. specific set of instructions used to extract particular information from a database.
- 6. system (DBMS) A group of software programs that allow you to enter, organize, and select information in a database.