Although without lack of teaching I muddled my way through my the course and achieved a B grade, and gain a basic knowledge of MircoSofe Word and a confused double dutch understanding of Excel.
My Computer and MircoSoft applications were then stored neatly away at the back of my mind until I returned to university at the age of 24. Being the 'old man' of the class it was a bit of a baptism of fire using my MircoSoft skills with everything I knew being out of date and being a lot slower than everyone else. I developed my skills through asking a lot of questions of my class mates and generally playing with applications in my spare time. By the time I finished University I was confident in Word, producing all my written assignments in Word, I did many presentations in PowerPoint and I am confident inserting text, changing profiles adding designs and delivering them as a presentation. During recent work experience I have become developed my basic Excel skills and can use simple formulars.
I currently use a MacBook Pro and use MircoSoft Word, which can be frustrating at times when writing assisgnments as the toolbar has a different layout and there is no referencing option to create a Reference List.