Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Using Microsoft Word
Hi everyone,
Guess who is teaching me when I use Microsoft Word ?
Is there an easy way to learn anything ? There is only one way to learn to do something - by experience. And learning it this way can always be fun, if one sets one’s mind to enjoying the tortuous journey rather than concentrating on quickly reaching the destination.
Learning to use Microsoft Word for me is like this. The tutorials are of not much help, and up to now I am still fumbling and tumbling along by experiencing it as I use it, the simple way I know how, never mind if it takes me one year, ten years or a hundred years.
Though learning while using it alone by myself I am never alone. There is always this wire thin guy which watches me at work. It has a thin wire-liked body with two over-sized eyes under a set of thick eyebrows. And it sits on the side and keeps its vigilance, like an old wise owl.
Whenever I do correctly like saving regularly as I progress, it wags its tail in approval against the mat on which it sits. Sometimes it scratches its bald head with its tail which puzzles me, as I myself wonder why, since I reckon I am working correctly. At times it lights up an electric bulb over its head; I gather that it has an idea but which I do not know how to pluck it out of its brain; anyway I do not care about this as my concern is to get on with my work
My aim is to compose whatever I need, typing along, copying and pasting, editing and rearranging a chart or figure to fit everything nicely into the least number of pages.
Yet there are times when I sense that it is reproaching me for doing things incorrectly. When I am resizing a heading or chart and alter its shape to fit into a page it rolls and drops it eyes and flips over within a box. And worse still are the times when I save my work after rearranging some copied articles, which is what I want to do, but somehow its reaction is very severe, it rearranges itself by disintegrating into parts, committing suicide I presume.
To heck with its reactions, its vigilance and its consequences, my objective is just to get what I want done and be done. I do not need fancy work and follow rules. But then, it will always be helpful to remind me to save my work when I am closing off. And the best ending is when it gives me its approval, packs itself up, rearranges itself into a bicycle and rides away into the sunset over the undulating pathway. That is a good goodbye, always.
Learning to use Microsoft Word can be enjoyable and beneficial.
Ron
Guess who is teaching me when I use Microsoft Word ?
Is there an easy way to learn anything ? There is only one way to learn to do something - by experience. And learning it this way can always be fun, if one sets one’s mind to enjoying the tortuous journey rather than concentrating on quickly reaching the destination.
Learning to use Microsoft Word for me is like this. The tutorials are of not much help, and up to now I am still fumbling and tumbling along by experiencing it as I use it, the simple way I know how, never mind if it takes me one year, ten years or a hundred years.
Though learning while using it alone by myself I am never alone. There is always this wire thin guy which watches me at work. It has a thin wire-liked body with two over-sized eyes under a set of thick eyebrows. And it sits on the side and keeps its vigilance, like an old wise owl.
Whenever I do correctly like saving regularly as I progress, it wags its tail in approval against the mat on which it sits. Sometimes it scratches its bald head with its tail which puzzles me, as I myself wonder why, since I reckon I am working correctly. At times it lights up an electric bulb over its head; I gather that it has an idea but which I do not know how to pluck it out of its brain; anyway I do not care about this as my concern is to get on with my work
My aim is to compose whatever I need, typing along, copying and pasting, editing and rearranging a chart or figure to fit everything nicely into the least number of pages.
Yet there are times when I sense that it is reproaching me for doing things incorrectly. When I am resizing a heading or chart and alter its shape to fit into a page it rolls and drops it eyes and flips over within a box. And worse still are the times when I save my work after rearranging some copied articles, which is what I want to do, but somehow its reaction is very severe, it rearranges itself by disintegrating into parts, committing suicide I presume.
To heck with its reactions, its vigilance and its consequences, my objective is just to get what I want done and be done. I do not need fancy work and follow rules. But then, it will always be helpful to remind me to save my work when I am closing off. And the best ending is when it gives me its approval, packs itself up, rearranges itself into a bicycle and rides away into the sunset over the undulating pathway. That is a good goodbye, always.
Learning to use Microsoft Word can be enjoyable and beneficial.
Ron
# posted by chunmu @ 7:08 PM 
