Making Tutorials for Novices, the Elderly and Children

Nowadays, office applications (such as word processors and spreadsheet programs) include a huge array of features and tools. In fact, there are so many such features that it has become a problem finding out how to master the most basic! For example, for a novice it's often difficult to quickly get to a level where you can do something relevant from the beginning to the end, like creating a simple but tidy document.

On the other hand, tutorials which come with a program often contain too much detail and are far too complicated.

Norma Sollers wrote this new guide as a tutorial to enable anyone to put a word processor into good use with ease. When writing the guide, the experience of many years in teaching word processors has been drawn upon. The guide covers all the basic tasks in word processing, with the most important goal being to quickly be able to do things on your own. In addition, the tasks are planned and the guide written so that they are suitable for

• beginners
  
• the elderly, and
  
• children.
  

In other words, for everyone who wants to master the basics of a word processor. Throughout the guide, only grayscale images are used, making it easy to use for the color deficient.

NOTE
The guide is written as a workbook, and to use it, your own motivation is most important. With the excerpt file you can decide whether it will meet your needs. In this way you can make sure that you're motivated enough to use the book. And only by being motivated you can quickly learn the tasks in the exercises. So, try before you buy: OpenOffice 2 Writer version or Word 2003 version