Wow, week two

Week Two

The course is getting started.

Office Applications, using different programs to help to produce university grade assignments. Week Two, I was unable to be at the campus, but I still revised the lecture slides and tutorial information.

Every week Dr. Helen Cripps gets everyone involved in the Lectures. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be there but I did read the slides. They demonstrated some computer programs that will be assisting us as a student through university. She illustrated an interesting graph on the third slide; it expressed tasks and then a program we could use to help complete the task.

This graph will help any new student get started when asked to present any of these tasks in this list.

The Lecture then just went over general aspects of these computing tasks.

I tried these next tutorial activities at home. I found that the Microsoft Word was quite simple, because I had used this program plenty of times. MS Word was really difficult to begin with. I downloaded the tip sheet and just had to sit down and play with it.

MS Word was a lot more complicated then I expected. The lines wouldn’t move for me, and the table wouldn’t produce the correct answers.

I constructed the table where I put all my activities for a whole week. Here it is.....

It was fun playing around with the settings, but it was also irritating when it didn’t do what I wanted. Eventually I got it; the tip sheet helped a lot.

From this table I formed a pie graph. Some aspects surprised me for example; I sleep 34% of my week and study 21%. No wonder I feel like there’s not enough time in one day.

For Microsoft word that was an easy one (I did use the tip sheet a little).

Our weekly readings:

'Using MS Word for APA tasks'.

There is a basic outline on what this is trying to say. The tool bar represents a tab which has the different groups inside it and each group has commands. If you cannot find a button that was on an older style Microsoft Word then you can click on the ‘dialog box launcher’ which has more that are not displayed tab. There are other options for example, you could use the smaller toolbar that you can pull up to another tab, to quickly format your work.

When you highlight your work a faded small toolbar appears and if you put your curser on top of it, it becomes solid.

There are short cuts when using Microsoft on the keyboard; each action tab has a keyboard short cut.

There are two other readings about adobe photo shop which explains all the different types of formats pictures can be saved in. The last reading was how to create a screen shot. I didn’t feel like I needed to read this because we went over the instructions in class.

Well that’s it for week two, thanks for reading and I will be writing more soon bye.

Until next time…………