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This training is designed to be self paced. That is you learn by reading through the material and doing what your are asked to do.

These courses are designed for you to learn by doing. That is various exercises in numbered point form are given to you to do one step at a time. Once you complete a step you move on to the next step until you finish a section. You then move on to the next section and so on.

This is what you should do to get the most out of doing this course.

1. Read what the material says, slowly and carefully. It is my experience that people often can not perform a function (step) correctly because they have simply not read or skipped part of the instructions
2. If what is supposed to happen does not happen, go back and read the specific step, then try doing it again
3. If after doing the above what is supposed to happen still does not happen start back at the beginning of that section again
4. If you are still not getting it to work then email me at geoffreykgreig@gmail.com . It could be that I have made a mistake in the notes. I do make mistakes
5. Before doing what a step tells you to do have a good look at the screen looks like and form an image in you mind of what you think the screen will look like after you do the step
6. In each point, it will often say, What happened? This is to get you used to carefully looking at the screen or window after you perform a step to see how it is changed. Learning how to use a computer application is all about performing functions, observing what happens after you performed a function and understanding why the function resulted in that change in the computer screen or window.
7. If you perform steps and observe what happens but don't understand why it happens then you are not learning. In which case I suggest you read the point again or even repeat the entire section again. If you still don't understand then please email me at geoffreykgreig@gmail.com. It may be that I have not explained it in sufficient detail or have left out a step. Its more likely to be a problem with me rather than you, I do make mistakes but I want this material to be as good as it can possible be.
8. Only spend as much time doing this course as you are comfortable with at any one time. Even then take breaks. You will learn faster that way.
9. At the top right is a Table of Contents. Use this to get to where you leave off each time. If you do use the table of contents you can bookmark, or add to favourites so it will be easier to get to where you left off last time.