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Author: Syed Feroz Zainvi
Following tips help you to learn a software in lesser time and in an efficient manner:
1. After installing a software package, look for any README file in the installed folder. Besides company and product details, it may give an overview of features, usages and limitations of the software.
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3. Look for the information shown in the TITLE-BAR of the main screen. Usually, it shows the product name. If the application is SDI (Single Document Interface like Notepad) or MDI (Multiple Document Interface like MS Word) then title-bar will also contain name of the opened file. Similarly, there may be STATUS-BAR at the bottom that shows the operation being performed.
4. Then comes the main MENU-BAR. Most of the GUI based software have common menu-items. So its better to learn once-for-all. Some of the common menu-items are:
FILE, EDIT, VIEW, TOOLS, WINDOWS, HELP.
Each of these names are intuitive itself.
-The FILE menu will have operations NEW, OPEN, SAVE, SAVE AS, PAGE SETUP, PRINT,CLOSE and EXIT.
-Similarly, EDIT menu contains editing operations like CUT, COPY, PASTE, FIND AND REPLACE.
-The VIEW menu helps in controlling the view of the software GUI. You can switch on-off various toolbars.
-The TOOLS menu usually have options to customize the software you like and also other supporting functionalities like Read-Aloud function in a word processor package.
-The HELP menu may contain GETTING STARTED tutorial, detailed indexed and searchable help and ofcourse, a popup dialog-box that shows information about the software. It may also contain a link
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