I kept asking "why" while doing this tutorial. I've prepared so many forms - HR forms, training surveys, workshop evaluations, survey forms - all sorts. Why is it that I've discovered this wonderful tool just now? Could have made my work life a lot easier!
However,on hindsight, it's probably best. It's like learning how to drive. If you started with the stick shift and then moved to an automatic car, it's very easy to drive both. But if you learned how to drive with an automatic car, odds are ten to 1, you'd never learn to go manual.
Hopefully, I can come up with better forms (and electronic at that) with Google Docs.
Check out the tutorial now. (Click here for video)
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
How to Prepare Presentations with Google Docs
I remember working for a boss who demanded one-page documents only. No matter how complicated the topic was. Even if it was a documentation of a 1-day meeting. That was part of his dream to go paperless.
I remember getting migraines and stomach upsets in my attempts to deliver the one-pagers. Sometimes I would cheat. Using legal paper size instead of A4 meant more texts. Using size 8 fonts instead of 12 meant the same thing. I got away with them on rare occasions when my boss was too busy to take notice. When he did notice (because he needed a magnifying glass to read my report) he would smile and shake his head as if to say - "Shame on you".
And I remember telling myself - "shame on me." A hundred words, more or less, and I have to cheat? I can do better than that. And I did do better. Without cheating. It was indeed a lesson on working within boundaries -something that proved to be more challenging than having all the freedom to do what I want to do.
Preparing presentations with Google Docs was another opportunity to apply that valuable lesson. There was so much information to share. My first draft was 10,000kb - and I couldn't upload to Scribd.com. I must have revised this tutorial 20x!
I'm now ready to post this tutorial. Just like the one-pagers, I hope I was able to capture the most important information -a much shorter version- but a concise presentation.
Hope you'll learn the basics...
(Click here for video)
I remember getting migraines and stomach upsets in my attempts to deliver the one-pagers. Sometimes I would cheat. Using legal paper size instead of A4 meant more texts. Using size 8 fonts instead of 12 meant the same thing. I got away with them on rare occasions when my boss was too busy to take notice. When he did notice (because he needed a magnifying glass to read my report) he would smile and shake his head as if to say - "Shame on you".
And I remember telling myself - "shame on me." A hundred words, more or less, and I have to cheat? I can do better than that. And I did do better. Without cheating. It was indeed a lesson on working within boundaries -something that proved to be more challenging than having all the freedom to do what I want to do.
Preparing presentations with Google Docs was another opportunity to apply that valuable lesson. There was so much information to share. My first draft was 10,000kb - and I couldn't upload to Scribd.com. I must have revised this tutorial 20x!
I'm now ready to post this tutorial. Just like the one-pagers, I hope I was able to capture the most important information -a much shorter version- but a concise presentation.
Hope you'll learn the basics...
(Click here for video)
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