Microsoft Powerpoint

Today I had to create my own powerpoint presentation, just with basic information about myself and my hobbies etc. I have used Powerpoint a few times and found the instructions quite easy to follow. The only trouble I seemed to have was a little bit with the animation presetting. I think if you use it you can preset each of the slides to have the sme animation and sequences of animations, but as we were required to have a different animation for each separate slide, I didn't use this tool and instead started from scratch each time with new animations.

All together I found this weeks exercise easy and I think it is useful when giving seminars as you can either time the presentation to follow along with your speech, or just click on the mouse when you are ready for the next presentation.

Using Microsoft

During this tutorial, we had to complete a few exercises on Microsoft word and how it works.

In the beginning I though it was really simple, and perhaps a waste of time as we began with the basics such as bolding word and underlining them.

But then we had to create a letter...

It showed me how to create a mail-merging thing which allows me to insert different names of the people I'd be sending my letter to. This is going to be very useful for me in the long run when I wish to post letters of the same or nearly the same content to multiple recipients.

It was a little difficult to know what all the buttons on the toolbar were for but with a little experimenting I was able to learn their uses and utilise them to my needs. :)