Microsoft® Office Professional, the most popular family of products (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft Word word processor, and Microsoft Access database), is a powerful application development platform. Office can be used to build reporting systems, presentation generators/assemblers, executive information systems, financial models, document management systems, database applications, and more. Combined with the functionality of Microsoft Mail, these applications can be made more useful and entirely new types of applications can be built. Consider the following examples of possible applications using Office and Mail.