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I'm taking a class to learn to operate Office 2007.
The class consists of a textbook, Internet tutorials and projects,
and occasional labs and lectures.
I take evening classes. Monday is my exam in Excel 2007.
I have been working on the tutorials and the
ribbon at the top of the documents takes some getting used to
because I have the old software habit.
I'm not getting any younger, and old habits die hard.
The exam is open book and open notes because a person either
knows how to use software, or they don't.
Software has everything to do with habits. Excel has some bugs in it.
People complain about it.
I think though, that it would be so difficult to go back to tracking everything the old way,
with thousands and thousands of receipts and papers and checks and bills.
I'm not the greatest mathematician in the world, but I want a degree in accounting.
Even if I am never part of a payroll department, or human resources etc. I will use
the skills I learn while acquiring this degree. Because our system is based on the
exchange of goods and services, and money is the medium of exchange used for those
The class consists of a textbook, Internet tutorials and projects,
and occasional labs and lectures.
I take evening classes. Monday is my exam in Excel 2007.
I have been working on the tutorials and the
ribbon at the top of the documents takes some getting used to
because I have the old software habit.
I'm not getting any younger, and old habits die hard.
The exam is open book and open notes because a person either
knows how to use software, or they don't.
Software has everything to do with habits. Excel has some bugs in it.
People complain about it.
I think though, that it would be so difficult to go back to tracking everything the old way,
with thousands and thousands of receipts and papers and checks and bills.
I'm not the greatest mathematician in the world, but I want a degree in accounting.
Even if I am never part of a payroll department, or human resources etc. I will use
the skills I learn while acquiring this degree. Because our system is based on the
exchange of goods and services, and money is the medium of exchange used for those
goods and services, knowing how to manage it is an essential skill that everyone needs to know.
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I suppose though, if we went back to tracking things the old way, everyone would be too
busy to complain anymore.
I am gathering links to help me learn it better.
This weekend will be big for study and worship for me.
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6 Oct 2008
I suppose though, if we went back to tracking things the old way, everyone would be too
busy to complain anymore.
I am gathering links to help me learn it better.
This weekend will be big for study and worship for me.
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6 Oct 2008
We took our Excel exams from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
At 8:15 I was still on the third part having given up
in frustration on the second exam.
The exam is a software mockup of Micorosoft's Excel software,
meaning that, if you push a button that would normally
work for you in Excel, you may get an error message instead
in the training program and possibly fail your test.
This is exactly what happened to me and many others in the class.
You have to guess which button the computer wants you to push.
If you don't get it right, or inadvertently push a wrong button
somewhere, you are in a real mess right?
I sure am.
I did get 100% on the first part of the exam.
Things went downhill from there.
Technology has its good points, but maybe the reason
our fine country is in such a mess
is because someone somewhere inadvertently
pushed a button on some merciless computer
that would not give them another chance.
At 8:15 I was still on the third part having given up
in frustration on the second exam.
The exam is a software mockup of Micorosoft's Excel software,
meaning that, if you push a button that would normally
work for you in Excel, you may get an error message instead
in the training program and possibly fail your test.
This is exactly what happened to me and many others in the class.
You have to guess which button the computer wants you to push.
If you don't get it right, or inadvertently push a wrong button
somewhere, you are in a real mess right?
I sure am.
I did get 100% on the first part of the exam.
Things went downhill from there.
Technology has its good points, but maybe the reason
our fine country is in such a mess
is because someone somewhere inadvertently
pushed a button on some merciless computer
that would not give them another chance.
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