Learning curve
December 22nd 2007 03:23
Over the last week at work I’ve been beginning to learn more about several programmes I haven’t used much before: Xcel for one. This was okay, as it’s similar to the Works spreadsheet in many ways, and I could use my skills from that one to figure out how to sort out Xcel.
But I’ve also had to start to get to grips with PowerPoint, Adobe In something or other (the names continues to escape me) and a database programme in Microsoft Office. Access, if I remember rightly. I’ve come across it before, but wasn’t able to use it much because of the way things were in that particular office. This time I’m making up databases of my own, which has been slow but interesting.
Haven’t really started on PowerPoint yet, but did do some work on the Adobe job the other day and nearly tore my hair out trying to get the tutorial to match up with what actually happened in the programme.
Don’t you just love it when they don’t align? I bought a wireless router a couple of days ago on the spur of the moment (because my wife hadn’t been able to use the laptop at home) and put it together with far more ease than I expected – mostly by not following the instructions. But when it came to the security aspect which was supposed to be done on line I couldn’t get onto the site at all. Kept getting that famous message that always makes me groan, and usually means the Internet is down. The Internet wasn’t down, because I was on a couple of other sites. In the end I had to get my son to help me over the phone: turned out that the IP address in the book wa wrong! Not only that, the instructions in the book for what to do once you got onto the site were nothing at all like what actually happened.
I suspect the book is out of date, and no one’s bothered to reprint it. Life with computers can be frustrating – and a sort of oddball adventure!
But I’ve also had to start to get to grips with PowerPoint, Adobe In something or other (the names continues to escape me) and a database programme in Microsoft Office. Access, if I remember rightly. I’ve come across it before, but wasn’t able to use it much because of the way things were in that particular office. This time I’m making up databases of my own, which has been slow but interesting.
Haven’t really started on PowerPoint yet, but did do some work on the Adobe job the other day and nearly tore my hair out trying to get the tutorial to match up with what actually happened in the programme.
Don’t you just love it when they don’t align? I bought a wireless router a couple of days ago on the spur of the moment (because my wife hadn’t been able to use the laptop at home) and put it together with far more ease than I expected – mostly by not following the instructions. But when it came to the security aspect which was supposed to be done on line I couldn’t get onto the site at all. Kept getting that famous message that always makes me groan, and usually means the Internet is down. The Internet wasn’t down, because I was on a couple of other sites. In the end I had to get my son to help me over the phone: turned out that the IP address in the book wa wrong! Not only that, the instructions in the book for what to do once you got onto the site were nothing at all like what actually happened.
I suspect the book is out of date, and no one’s bothered to reprint it. Life with computers can be frustrating – and a sort of oddball adventure!
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