This reminded me of a tweet I saw a few months ago (but can't for the life of me remember who tweeted it) and it made me laugh, but it basically said:
"The hardest part of any IT lesson was deciding which one of these to use for your presentation"
The first half hour of an IT lesson was literally spent selecting one of these to use and then choosing a colour scheme. And that was the extent of my experience with Microsoft apps at school. Oh, and there was one lesson using Excel where they talked about using 'cells' and that's all I remember and I haven't ever used it/needed to use it since.
A more recent experience is using Microsoft Word to type up essays/coursework for University. I think that referencing on Word has been the most horrifying and traumatic experience. Unfortunately, my University required us to use 'OSCOLA' referencing, which is a specific referencing format for Law. This meant using footnotes. This then led to massive problems when you needed to re-number them and had to manually alter around 100 footnotes individually. Absolute nightmare.
BUT I was very impressed with the Harvard referencing tool available with Word that Mandy introduced to us. I'm hoping it will make referencing far less tedious and painful in the future.
That's as far as my experience with Microsoft Apps go, I don't use any of the others, so I do feel as though I'm spending a lot of money when I purchase the Microsoft Package because I only ever really need to use Word.
I would like to know if there are any other useful tips and tricks to Microsoft Word that I don't know about that would make my life much easier.
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