Hypercompendia

I’d have to say I crawled sideways, crablike into software, though I went kicking and screaming into technology itself. I broke down and got a used PC in 1996, and have since built and rebuilt about ten times.  I’m now up to five computers: 3 PCs, a Dell Latitude laptop and a Mac laptop. I have a floor to ceiling shelf unit loaded with computer guts.  I actually still have an 8 MB memory stick hanging around, along with a couple extra monitors, hard drives I swear have vital information on them, four or five cases in various stages of missing parts, a thousand computer screws, and miles of different cables.  I really should do something about getting rid of it all.

But the point here is that I am one of those who learn as I go.  I really don’t believe you could take a computer course to learn certain programs any better than teaching it to yourself.  There just is so much to learn about any program that you’ll forget the details of how to do something long before you need to do it.  I tend to jump in, keep it simple and then start playing around and exploring buttons and menus as I go.  Or better, when I want or need to do something, find out how to do it.  I’ve even found my way around a program in a typing test once and came out fine.

So I’m putting together a presentation and since I like working on the Mac, am using Keynote for the project.  Problem is, I don’t know how to use Keynote.  But it’s similar enough to Powerpoint to have allowed me to get started, and with a few slides–both image and text–under my belt, I can worry about changing things and fixing them later.  But I’m learning a new program because I need it, and I’m sure it’ll do all that I require of it.  Just wish that Flash had been that easy.