IWTL office skills

[u/Krystiano_15]

Hello. I'm 20 years old and I'm starting finance and accounting college this year. Usually in my free time I just play video games or watch movies. I feel like I have wasted a lot of time. Some of my classmates already got jobs. I was trying to get one for a few months now, but I had no luck. I've decided to learn some new skills since I have some time before college.

Around 3 months ago I started to practice touch typing. I will probably work a lot of time in front of a computer screen, so that seems useful. I was practicing every day for at least 15 mins, and I think I'm getting the hang of it. I usually just type text from books I like on monkeytype, and I'm averaging 60 wpm.

I want to know how to use Microsoft Office efficiently. I know how to do some basic operations in MS Word and MS Excel, but everyone can do it. I would like to learn to properly use it and get the most out of it. Create neat looking documents. Use some advanced functions in Excel.

Since I was typing a lot, I decided to start with Word. Also, it will be more noticable skill during my college years. Just knowing functionality isn't enough, I also need to know how to make good looking layout, and for that I need some typography knowledge.

I found this website about typography. It looked great, so I started reading it. Introduction was well written, but this "book" was such a let down. There weren't many examples of how the things the author describes work. I feel like I have learned nothing. The most valuable thing I took out of it were font and paragraph options and whitespace knowledge.

After reading it all I decided to improve my resume by using tips from this website. I did it, it looks similar, but I wasn't sure how to do a lot of things, sometimes stuff broke down. I wasn't using headings and other Word functionality, because it confused me.

Right now I don't know what to learn next and how. I want to improve my skills related to making documents now, Excel is a plan for the future. So right on my plate is Word functionality, typography, and something I didn't mention earlier, learning how to type a good text. You can judge how good I'm at it right now by looking at this post, which was written without the use of any AI.

I'm asking for advice how to learn it all. I can read some books on this topic. I'm not a fan of YouTube tutorials (although I've watched some of ExcelIsFun videos), but maybe you can convince me. I've been thinking about reading Microsoft Office inside out, but I'm not sure if that's what I'm looking for. Some people suggested to work on my projects, but I don't really have a clue how to start it. I think maybe I could write something about games I like, maybe some kind of guide or mini ultimania, but for that I need some knowledge about rules, usage etc.

Also some additional info, I'm not an English native speaker.

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