12-03-2019, 06:33 AM
If you follow the original dinosaur thinking to the logical conclusion then all phones and tablets should run Windows 10 with MS Office - but they don't and - gosh - folks work out how to use them. Not teaching MS Word, but a wordprocessing package - they all do the same thing. Not Excel but a spreadsheet, they all do the same thing. By using different tools people quickly get to recognise that skills are portable from one tool to another.
The skills that are relevant are not what menu to click in word in order to do x, y or z but rather - this is a word processor, all word processing software does the same tricks in slightly different ways.
Sadly the job market does not understand this so if there is a burning desire to stay close to MS Office then I suggest you look at the free version of Softmaker Office. It has simple pickers to simulate different versions of MS Office if that is what is required. The menu structures are virtually identical. Over many years I have regularly swapped doc and docx files with MS Office users - including complex tables that LibreOffice just cannot touch - without issues. The free version will handle older doc xl files but only saves in docx etc. https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ is the place to go.
The skills that are relevant are not what menu to click in word in order to do x, y or z but rather - this is a word processor, all word processing software does the same tricks in slightly different ways.
Sadly the job market does not understand this so if there is a burning desire to stay close to MS Office then I suggest you look at the free version of Softmaker Office. It has simple pickers to simulate different versions of MS Office if that is what is required. The menu structures are virtually identical. Over many years I have regularly swapped doc and docx files with MS Office users - including complex tables that LibreOffice just cannot touch - without issues. The free version will handle older doc xl files but only saves in docx etc. https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ is the place to go.