Week 10

Today we were playing around with Microsoft word and its many functions. We had to write up a job application letter and do all sorts of things to it. These included using the;

• Bold, Italics, Underline and Bullets functions
• Headers, Footers and Double Spacing
• Track Changes and
• Mail Merge

The majority of these function I was familiar with, however I did find it interesting to use the double spacing tool. I currently am doing a psychology course as an elective and all our assessments are to be double spaced...me being blonde went through my 1500 word lab report pressing the enter button to make it all double spaced. I will in future be using this fantastic double spacing tool.

The headers and footers function I have used before so wasn't anything exciting/challenging or new there. The same goes for using functions such as Bold and Italics. I constantly use these functions so am very familiar with them.

Track changes function I found confusing. I don't quiet understand the use of it, if I want to change a word I just delete it, I don't go to all the trouble to do track changes only for the computer to ask me if I want to accept or deny this change.

The last task involved mail merging...OK this was difficult for me to do! I completely understand why the tool exists and in a business it would be really handy and reduce alot of time. Maybe after using it a few more times I would understand it more but at the moment I found it difficult. The mail merging tool wasn't working properly though as when I would export the information it would come up with the same recipient and not make new copies with recipients from my list.