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Originally Posted by Wildwoman  I would look into whether the places you're applying to just want you to know word, or if they want you to take some manner of test on it. The tests tend to ask for all kinds of bullshit that is useful only on the test, like this 'header' function that they have. I'm pretty sure everyone just does what I do, bolds or underlines or italicizes or changes the font size without bothering with that, but a formal test will count it as wrong. If you have to take tests, a class or least a book is probably a good idea. |
The header/subheader functions are a couple of the things I had in mind when I mentioned that there are things that make working on word so much more efficient. I suppose it depends a lot on what you're doing. But for example, I can think of a report I did for a college class one time, it ran to about 20 pages, and things like being able to update a contents page at the push of a key every time your page numbering changes, or being able to format a new heading consistently and instantly, are just so helpful when you're working with something that long.
Having said that, most of what I did on word in my last job (accountancy) was writing letters, and if the organisation sends out enough correspondence to warrant it then they'll usually have templates set up for their company paper so that everything comes out consistent every time, and the effort from the writer is basically limited to banging in content and the odd bolding/italicising/underlining here and there. And that's probably pretty common in offices.
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