lifehacker.com: Microsoft Word is easily the biggest, most popular word processing program available, but it does a lot more than just edit text and TPS reports. If you’ve been telling yourself that you’ll finally learn Word’s ins and outs, now’s the time to actually learn how to edit styles, add a table of contents, and more.
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This answers so many questions I have had about Word! I’ve always felt like there was so much more to Word than I knew or wanted to explore. We are often taught Excel in college and sometimes in high school just because it is so intimidating and not as natural as Word. But there lies the problem. Word does feel so natural, but there is so much more to it as a program that I was never formally taught that would now help me as a stage and production manager, such as styles, merging documents, and adding citations. While not monumental, I would have been able to work faster. I think that as managers, we often get stuck in the mindset that we should use Excel for any piece of paperwork, but I think there is a lot to Word that we could utilize with ease.
Thank you so much for this article. More please!
To tell the truth I came to this school technologically inept. I am more familiar with the functioning of a typewriter than a keyboard. In fact, I’m still decently certain that computers are magical. So when it comes to learning software, I just don’t know where to even start. I remember on “Excel Day” in Basic PTM we were asked if we had any questions about excel. I felt like I couldn’t send in a question because I had never even looked at the program before. How would I know what to ask? What could I even ask? After a couple semesters of college I am finally at a basic level of Microsoft understanding. Articles like this (and the other one this week on PowerPoint) are amazing in helping me understand what everything on my computer means. Maybe one day I will finally understand what the managers are talking about when they get excited about paperwork.
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