Week 8 Tutorial Task (Part 1)

The advanced uses of Microsoft Word; The Mail Merge. The performing of the described tasks that led up to the mail merge were all relatively easy to follow. As it was an advanced walkthrough there was no need to explain, for example, how to put a word into bold writing or the like, so unnecessary details were avoided with no harm caused. The whole close and open the document was needless and a waste of time and something that was eventually avoided. However the actual mail merge section was a little confusing. I had to 'walk on my own legs' as it were and find my own way for one part of it. This was simple in essence however and minor problems were overcome. Mail merging would mostly be useful for doing what the exercise described (sending information in a formal way to someone a distance away) as well as possible edits that you could make to an assessment on the computer (Advanced Exercise1 - track changes).

The Microsoft Excel exercises, while harder to use than the Microsoft Word ones, were relatively easy to follow. I aim the explanation of this to my use of Word being more frequent and common than that of Excel. The only part of the exercise that i was unsure of was the making of the chart. After it was produced it looked different to how I thought that it would. The information was still all readable however it simply looked different. The macros section I was told to abandon for a reason i already cannot remember. This software would be extremely useful in the running of a business. The Auto correcting formulas would be of unimaginable importance. one mistake on paper could mean columns of incorrect data whereas using Excel one correction would fix all.