Very productive day today. My blog comes up on my blog reader, so I read it this morning to see what I’d said I was going to do today, and I was further inspired. Or perhaps determined is a better word for it.
- I finished editing the article for Descent and sent it off.
- I made a serious start on my essay, so that it seems possible that I will be able to finish it.
- I learned enough about Word 2007 and the way it handles footnotes and the bibliography (separately, unfortunately) to be useful
- I learned enough about Word 2007′s so-called SmartArt (diagram drawing) to start on the diagrams for the essay
- I didn’t start on the client report but I’d done that the night before and decided that was enough.
- I did a load of washing (unplanned bonus!)
I think it works, you know, this making public announcements of what I’m going to do!
Tomorrow, instead of going into the city for the bi-monthly TMG User Group meeting I’m going to stay at home and work on my essay all day, with occasional breaks to go outside and enjoy the forecasted warm weather. I may even sit in the sun for half an hour and read a book about the colonial administration of the colonies of Australia between 1831 and 1855. It doesn’t get any better than that!
Word 2007 is a bit of a struggle but I’m getting there. The last essays I wrote were written using Office XP (is that what it was called?) and I had to put references in manually and I didn’t need to draw diagrams. Come to think of it, I started using OneNote. It was the version we were allowed to download as students of the University of Sydney, and it’s an ugly, cumbersome thing. It did work with Word, though. I can’t afford to upgrade it, and I haven’t found anything that has similar functionality. I wonder how it handles footnotes? Might be worth another look.
Does anyone use OneNote, or Word 2007, for genealogical writing?
By the way, I’m trying to keep the title on these posts consistent so that those of you you aren’t remotely interested in my daily tasks can ignore them.
