Ultimate IB Skill Trade-Off: Excel vs. PowerPoint vs. Word vs. Outlook

Imagine this: you’re given the chance to be an absolute god in just ONE of these tools for your entire IB career—Excel, PowerPoint, Word, or Outlook—but there’s a catch. You’d be subaverage in the ones you didn’t choose.

Which one would you pick, and why?

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