Word, Excel, and 3D Chats

Word
The exercises for Word were very simple and I didn't have many problems at all. For the most part the tasks were very simple, but when it got to the mail merge part I was a little confused. The mail merge itself wasn't that hard to figure out, but the instructions were a little hard to understand and they weren't very well written. I'm glad that I found out how to use that feature though because some companies will only hire you if you know how to do specific technical things with Word or Excel. I didn't know about the track changes feature and found that to be very interesting. I think that the track changes feature would be very useful when you are revising a paper or document to see what you have changed and to make sure that it wasn't better before you changed it. It would save a lot of time and effort in the long run.

Excel
The exercises for Excel were also very simple for the most part. The tasks were the very basics; typing into cells, using formulas, making graphs. But the advanced task with the macros was something new to me. I had heard of them before and how they can be used to save time and help your whole process, but I had never used them before. As of right now there would be no real need for me to use the macros function but I can see how that can be very very useful to someone. In the future it may become a more important thing for me to know for my finances and things along those lines.


Habbo 3D Chat
I went onto Habbo to experience 3D chat. It was basically a normal chat room but with the a more humanized feeling to it. I felt that there was a lot more going on compared to the traditional instant messaging services. There wasn't really anything more that you can do that you can't do on regular IM, at least that's how it was with Habbo. Socializing in spaces like these makes it seem more personal and humanized rather than a box with text in it. I don't think it makes much of a difference, well at least it didn't to me. But I can see how people can feel more connected to the person that they are talking to if they have some sort of digital representation of them to look at while they are chatting. I think that applications of communication like this could eventually lead to a completely video chat room where the people can talk to everyone face to face using web cams.