atw: Re: OT Writing tools

I'll be sure to let you know. I'm up to page 7, and so far, so good!


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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Kent
Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 12:17 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: OT Writing tools

Hi Elizabeth

I would be interested to hear too - to see if I have pitched my books correctly 
or have missed some critical things.

ck

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Silcock
Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 11:56 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: OT Writing tools

Hi Elizabeth

I'd be really interested to hear some of the most popular questions that came 
up, if you can tell us without too much work. I'm putting together a document 
that includes tips on using some of the features of Word that may cause trouble.

We're still using Word 2003 at present. The switch to Office 2007 is supposed 
to be happening sometime in the next few months and that may upset some of my 
work or make it unnecessay (or, I suspect, require me to add many extra 
sections), but I'm not thinking too much about that yet.

Howard
2009/1/27 Elizabeth Fullerton 
<Elizabeth_Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Elizabeth_Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Funny you should mention this - last week I presented a "Word knowledge-sharing 
session" to a bunch of my colleagues, discussing most of the things mentioned 
in this trail, and others. I started with the basic setup (non-personalised 
menus, showing formatting marks and what they mean, etc), and went on to the 
common problems I've help-desked people with through the years. It was an 
interactive session, with people asking lots of questions and meandering around 
the basic structure I had set (as was my intention) - I think they got a lot 
out of it, but at 2 hours I think we could have gone longer. Hopefully the 
session will get good feedback and I will be asked to do more - it's in 
everyone's best interests to be more efficient, especially mine, then I get to 
spend less time help-desking!

We're a bit quiet this week, so I've acquired a second laptop, downloaded 
Christine Kent's book on upgrading to 2007 (last time I tried on my own 
computer I suddenly needed to be at maximum efficiency - lost about a day 
trying to figure out 2007, removed it, which broke the dlls on my computer so I 
had to have it re-imaged which  then required about 3 days to get all my 
settings back - so less overall efficiency than I had hoped...)




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Subject: atw: Re: OT Writing tools

Christine
My experience is in line with the comments made by Stuart and Bob,
except that I've known a few people use Publisher quite successfully.  I
don't think I've ever come across anyone who uses the cut-down freebie
Microsoft word processor that comes with a new PC.  My uni students have
all been Word users but were never taught how to use it, which
perpetuates the behaviour that Stuart described.

Allan
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