9/10/13 Word

When I was a sophomore in HS a really beautiful senior asked me if I would help with the school newspaper. My answer was obvious.

This began a journey through Microsoft Word that I will never forget. Since my high school refused to buy us a program for our school newspaper, I began to work with word. Dividing columns and pictures, creating and destroying, editing and scrubbing. I worked every lunch period and every study hall whenever we had enough articles to put a paper out (I went to a very small high school, if everyone didn't write, we didn't have a paper). I got so proficient in that version of Word that I was teaching my teachers how to make the documents that exceeded the limits they has assumed upon Word.

This teaches us a few things.

1) Almost any basic document can be created in any of the Microsoft programs- but picking the right one is crucial for efficiency.
2) All of these programs are about sheer experience. There are lots of tricks and shortcuts and the way to learn them is to run into the situation where you need to be able to create a document with speed (ie: to get to lunch)
and of course
3) A beautiful senior can get a sophomore to do damn near anything.