Classes for Word

[pubwench]

Hoping to get back into the job market in a few months (pending results of upcoming tests) I am looking at a few classes that might be good to take to brush my skills with for  Word, Excel and PowerPoint,. It's been almost a year since I've gone to work and I honestly have no clue as to which version of Word most people are using, What is being

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[cozit]

I don't know that it's all *that* important to pick a specific Word, as long as you make it clear that you're comfortable switching from one to another, knowing what *can* be done, and how to find out how to do it if it's one of the few things that have changed between versions

[whizzrjohn]

I agree about the differences between the versions being minimal. If you're comfortable with one version, and familiar with what it's capable of, the learning curve to use a different version shouldn't be very steep.

While you're at it, you might want to have a look at Open Office. It's an office suite developed and offered by Sun Microsystems that is completely free to download from the Open Office website. There are versions for most popular operating systems, there are no expensive site or network licenses to use it on multiple workstations, and it can open and save files in most of the common office applications (not to mention saving files in Adobe Acrobat format). Because of this, it's starting to gain ground in business and government environments. Because I was using it at work, we started using it at home instead of comparable MS Office applications a couple of years ago, and most of the commands and operational functions are similar enough that not much re-orientation is needed. The only difficulties I've found have