Week 8 - Part 1: I <3 WORD.

Word. Word. Word.
I <3>

Not meaning to boast, but for someone who's been using word since they were 10, and also studied a Business/Computing class in grade 11 AND 12, this weeks task was a bit of a walk in the park.

BUT! I must admit, it was good to touch up on old Mail Merge, because that's something I haven't done in a while and, yes, I can see that one day, it could come in very handy!

Also, track changes have changed my life. Let me tell you how.
When I was in high school, I had never been told about writing "clearly and concisely" or words being "redundant" (redundant means not necessary). So there I was, happily writing away, 1000 words of bullshit! Over time, I developed quite a good nack for writing bullshit, and I thought it was great because it was getting me the goooood grades............

UNTIL! I came to uni. Then eeeeveryone was all about "clear and concise", "get as many points into the short word limit", "there has to be a logical flow of your ideas so its easy for the reader to follow"..... and warning bells started to ring. What was I going to do? I had gotten into the habbit of padding every little idea up with all of these big, impressive words, and now they want me to take them all out?????? And then, suddenly it dawned on me, I have a sister who is at uni in Brisbane, studying law and business, who is an ABSOLUTE GENIUS! Why not make use of her? So in the end, I write my assignments (trying to be as clear and concise as I can) and then I send them to my sister, who has alot of fun with those red lines in the track changes! The beauty of track changes is that she doesnt change what I had, because then I wouldn't be able to see what she's changed! She just makes the suggesstions, so they're there in red and I can choose if I want to use them or not. BRILLIANCE!

On the whole, I think Word is a life saver. I <3>

When I was working last year, I had to use a different computer for a few weeks that didn't have Microsoft Office, it had 'star office' - this program is so shit that it doesn't even deserve capital letters. It's a wanna be Microsoft Office. At first glance, it seems the same, but when you're working with it you realise its no where near as user friendly as Microsoft Office. I spent so much time just looking for basic buttons like "columns" and "bullets".

I think we take Word for granted.