Task 8

Microsoft Word

I am not a fan of word! I have been brought up my whole life with a mac computer in my household. I have endured years of ridicule and frustration in my younger years when the two were not compatible; word and appleworks, meaning that any work I did at school could not be transferred home with me and visa versa. But now....finally the two have somewhat merged allowing me to export my mac pages docs to word format for further use at uni. So with all this pent up angst, it is very grudgingly that i complete this word exercise as at both home and work i use pages and have come to love it and the way it works.

Overall, i found the task quite easy. The advanced section was something I had never tried before, so it took me a tad longer to complete this section. However the rest I found to be quite straight forward, having done it many times before.

Microsoft Excel

So, if I didn't like word, I have to say that excel is even scarier territory for me. There is an ongoing joke between two of us at work - both avid anti excel users. We honestly avoid it like the plague and try to eradicate it from our day to day activity as much as humanly possible. I understand that it's an extremely useful tool and one of my friends in particular would pretty much marry the program if it were legal, but I personally just can't be bothered to take the time to get my head around it.... Until now that is... so here goes.

this part of the task was frustrating. Even though it was step by step I found it quite difficult to complete quickly as i had to keep clicking back and forth reading and re-reading the instructions. It all seemed to work out though, which amazed me!! The program that had caused me so much past grief holds new found hope! I think that this exercise was kind of useful to me, i know that i will still try my darndest to avoid using excel, but at least now i know why some other people (freaks) choose to use the program so often and with such ease.