I really need your help because I don't really understand all the
informatiion and instruction of Microsoft Office 2003 that is very very very
very hard for me to use and understand at all. I am deaf person.
Microsoft Office is not a program; it's a whole collection of
different programs for different purposes. Microsoft Word is a word
processing program for writing text (letters, books, memos or the
like); Microsoft Outlook is a program for sending and receiving EMail,
maintaining a calendar of events and to-do lists, and various other
things; Excel is a spreadsheet program for doing calculations on lists
of data, and so on. You don't need to know all about all of these
programs to use one of them.
There are scores of good books on how to use these programs; some of
them are very general, some very specific, some elementary, some very
advanced. Don't be put off by the title and covers of the "Microsoft
Word for Dummies" books - they are actually very good introductions
for people like you who haven't had the opportunity to get acquainted
with computers.
So decide what you want to *do* - do you want to send people EMail?
Then explore Outlook. Write letters or manuscripts? Check out Word. Go
bit by bit; don't dive in to heavy development or programming, you
don't need that to get benefit from the programs.
Good luck. If you have specific problems or questions, there are many
different "newsgroups" like this one. Office Help dumps you into the
Access newsgroup by default simply because it's first in alphabetical
order; if you're interested in Outlook, say, then you can select
Outlook from the dropdown box on the help screen.
Good luck! Some of my Deaf net-friends have found the computer to be a
wonderful help; may it be so for you!
John W. Vinson[MVP]
