Using Microsoft Word

Well, after successfully posting my essay on my blog (please feel free to have a read) I have just completed some tasks using Microsoft Word. The tasks consisted of:

• changes to text
• header and footer use
• track changes and
• mail merging

I found everything to be familiar - (except for track changes) as i'm constantly using them for letter-writing at work. The track changes I have never used before - but found to be quite simple as I followed the instructions outlined. I'm using Windows Vista at home and it feels strange to be going back to older versions of Word. Vista makes everything so simple - but when you're first learning how to use Word on Vista - its quite confusing. Especially when you have used XP at work and so on. Another thing about the Exercises that i found to be rewarding is the simply written cover page. I've written cover pages for resumes before but the cover page shown was short and simple and probably exactly what the employers need to hear as a summary. So i don't know if that was an object for the exercises but it sure helped me!

In the lecture today we had Debra Beattie as a guest Speaker. She was talking to us about cyber therapy - such as Kids Help Line. She discussed how at first it was argued - because some didn't believe that it possible to counsel over the phone or web - (but arguments are common with new technologies) and then she gave us an idea of how many mentally troubled children they are helping today - and how they help them (In your face skeptics!) . So it was rather interesting. Then we watched a documentary she had written, directed and co-produced called "The Wrong Crowd" which is a personal history as told by Debra, about growing up in Queensland. So that was rather interesting too. After that we watched Existenz - and that was my day of New Comm. Tech. in a nutshell.

Don't forget to have a read of my Essay as seen below if you happen to pass by my blog!

Au revoir!