MS Outlook is NOT for dummies!!
Today, I've had the most interesting day I think I may have had in nearly a year!!
I have spent the last 2 days (and one full evening) putting together a training session for the NSYFC team on "How to use Microsoft Outlook" as we run a MS exchange server at the office, but no-one uses outlook except for email, which is crazee when it is such a powerful programme for running schedules, tasks contacts etc.
Anyway, I put a presentation together (a mere 90 powepoint slides) and turned up at the office this morning, ready to help people discover how amazing Outlook really is.
I titled the presentation "MS Outlook for dummies (& NSYFC people)" - you have no idea how inaccurate that title was - it literally took 20 minutes for people to turn on their computers and load Outlook from the programs menu!!
Anyway, after a LONG training session that for some reason people found extremely amusing, certain (paper diary fan) members of the YFC team announced that they were "Converts", which was exciting, but I was left feeling physically exhausted. It really did feel like teaching old people how the new nursing home toilet worked!! (lots of "ooh"s and sharp (but positive) intakes of breath).
And eventually, I came home, only to find that Lara had already told Zak about the new bike he was going to get!! GREAT!!
I have been waiting months to see Zak's face when he's presented with his first ever bike (something that won't ever happen again), so it has to be said that I was (slightly) gutted when I discovered that Lara had told him he was getting one - it's one of those "first time" type moments that I usually seem to miss as I'm at work for most of the day.
Anyway, I got home, went to lie down for an hour (I really was exhausted), our friend Derek came to visit for an Audley special and I accidentally trod on his nuts (the edible type - he'd left them on the floor), and we now have Zak's new bike - I've hidden it in the garage in the hope that he'll forget what Lara told him and he'll get all excited when we give it him at some point, but I guess if he knows, he knows!! Grrrr!!
And that's it. Sorry it was a bit long!!
I have spent the last 2 days (and one full evening) putting together a training session for the NSYFC team on "How to use Microsoft Outlook" as we run a MS exchange server at the office, but no-one uses outlook except for email, which is crazee when it is such a powerful programme for running schedules, tasks contacts etc.
Anyway, I put a presentation together (a mere 90 powepoint slides) and turned up at the office this morning, ready to help people discover how amazing Outlook really is.
I titled the presentation "MS Outlook for dummies (& NSYFC people)" - you have no idea how inaccurate that title was - it literally took 20 minutes for people to turn on their computers and load Outlook from the programs menu!!
Anyway, after a LONG training session that for some reason people found extremely amusing, certain (paper diary fan) members of the YFC team announced that they were "Converts", which was exciting, but I was left feeling physically exhausted. It really did feel like teaching old people how the new nursing home toilet worked!! (lots of "ooh"s and sharp (but positive) intakes of breath).
And eventually, I came home, only to find that Lara had already told Zak about the new bike he was going to get!! GREAT!!
I have been waiting months to see Zak's face when he's presented with his first ever bike (something that won't ever happen again), so it has to be said that I was (slightly) gutted when I discovered that Lara had told him he was getting one - it's one of those "first time" type moments that I usually seem to miss as I'm at work for most of the day.
Anyway, I got home, went to lie down for an hour (I really was exhausted), our friend Derek came to visit for an Audley special and I accidentally trod on his nuts (the edible type - he'd left them on the floor), and we now have Zak's new bike - I've hidden it in the garage in the hope that he'll forget what Lara told him and he'll get all excited when we give it him at some point, but I guess if he knows, he knows!! Grrrr!!
And that's it. Sorry it was a bit long!!
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I feel I should correct you, Jon, Dear, Dear boy!
The nuts in question were, originally mine. However, I presented them to you as a mighty handful which you declined and put on the floor. Therefore, I believe that the nuts were actually yours!
Hope that's cleared things up a bit for your readers.
Derek
PS - Thanks for a great evening - good to see you all. (F2L)