Post #3 - Different applications

This assignment we were told to mess with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access which most people only have played around, previously, with Word. While these are all made by the same company and do pretty similar things, they are completely different.

We were described to write about 10 things we do during the day. I have trouble doing this because my life is, quite literally, done in less than 10 things a day. I had to add eating and other things that we all do that makes our lives uninteresting to the entire thing, and by the time I got done I had extended by day by ~12 hours more than a normal day consists of.

Using Microsoft Word, I described the basics of my day in a journal like entry. I had explained about my night at work, what all I did during the night, and then about each thing that I had to do after work. I made it look like that of which an 11-year-old would do when starting their own personal diary or journal.

Using Microsoft Excel I had to label how long each individual activity took. Due to my very boring life, as I already said, I had to add things like browsing social media and eating/drinking, and even driving to and from work. This, in total, meant that I had about ~36 hours of day time because I usually write stories and browse social media at the exact same time. I'm usually always on my phone which means that all of my social media time happens at the exact same time as everything else.

Using Microsoft PowerPoint I had to make a slide for each activity. I was able to group some items together to make a decent and not completely boring presentation, and I got to use the transitions and animations provided to make it looks a little more interesting. My favorite thing to do the entire thing was making the Facebook and Instagram logos switch places on the slide that I used for social media, which I have never done before but wanted to just for the fun of it.

Using Microsoft Access, I had to label which things were high priority. Most people would see excercise as high priority, but I used my writing and school work as high priority because those are the important things to me. I also believe I added Family Time as high priority, but as an loner I don't usually hang out with anybody in my life and prefer to be alone.

While each program did something completely different than the last, they were all important in their own way. I was able to use the different programs so that I could list the same activities in different ways so that I could see how I view the entire day. I usually see myself as a boring person and this actually reinforced that idea because I couldn't even get the entire 10 activities, I think I toppled out with between 7 and 9.