There was no slam on Harry at all Thane. It's not just simply learning simple tasks. Sure anyone can learn how to type a paragraph in word. However, learning Access in an MIS/CIS program is quite important. Not all corporations run SQL. The company I'm at with now has approximately 1500 employees at our site, and around 6k worldwide. Decent sized company but every department within the organization has these access databases...it's a nightmare.
Colleges do teach you how to think. But if you're going to college for IT or Business you need to learn windows and you need to learn office. Most companies don't want to spend the time to teach an entry level business person how to use Excel or Word. I haven't used Open office that much but are the commands and formulas the exact same in open office? Vlookup and everything else is exactly the same? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 3:01 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] machine update plans At 03:47 PM 25/08/2006, Christopher Klein wrote: >entering the corporate world or most areas of IT need to learn MS office. >Not open office...but the actual MS office. MS office is used by the You raise a good point. But I would suggest that university should be teaching you how to think, not how to handle simple tasks. If graduate from university and can't switch from one word processor to another, then the university failed you. Nice unprovoked slam on Harry though. T
