Microsoft Excel functions

Hello again.
For the first time in the 2007 training, we learned how to use some of the basic features of Microsoft Excel.
For those of you who haven’t used Excel before, you might want to give it a try.
You can use it to make calendars, expense accounts, attendance lists, student grade records, and much more.
If you already know something about Excel, then this web site might be of use to you.
It’s a list of some of the most commonly used Excel functions, together with examples of how to use them. It may not be very helpful for beginners, but if you can use the basic features of Excel and want to know more, then it could be just what you’re looking for.

Advanced Microsoft Word training

Good afternoon, everyone.
I’m sorry it’s been such a long time since I last posted to the blog, but I’ve been pretty busy with work and study.
For those of you who are interested in learning more about Microsoft Word, please go to
this web site.
It’s a list of training materials produced by the University of Reading in the UK.
It has lots of useful information about how to make your documents look professional using Microsoft Word 2003.
If you want to include footnotes, endnotes, headers, footers, or autotext in your documents, then this is a good site for you.

Subscribing to the blog using an RSS feed

Hello, everyone.
Did you know that you can subscribe to this blog using an RSS feed?
If you do this, then your web browser or feed reading software will tell you whenever new information is added to the blog, or whenever an important change happens.
If you want to subscribe using your web browser, then please click this link, or paste the following URL into your feed reading software:

http://terukoikeda.wordpress.com/feed/

New resource pages for the blog

Good morning, everyone.
This morning, I decided to rearrange the blog a little.
As many of you probably know, I uploaded the course notes for the Teruko Ikeda ICT 2006 and 2007 training programmes in an earlier post, and also information about how to subscribe to our podcast.
I thought that this information should be permanent and not part of a post, so I removed the original posts, and made two new resource pages: one has information about how to subscribe to the podcast, and the other has links to the 2006 and 2007 course notes.
You can find these new pages under the Pages heading.
If you have any opinions or suggestions about this new arrangement, please feel free to leave a comment.

Asian Braille codes

Hello everyone.
What I want to say here isn’t directly related to the Teruko Ikeda ICT training programme, but I thought that some of you might be interested to hear about the latest project at the Japan Braille Library.
The Japan Braille Library is now involved in an interesting project. It received grants from various companies in Japan to produce a book about all of the Braille codes currently used in South-East Asia.
Recently I proofread the entry about Japanese Braille, which I’ll try to post to the blog later, if Mr. Tanaka gives his permission.
So far, JBL has received information from many Asian countries about the Braille codes they use. Some of these countries are China, South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, the Philippines, and maybe also Nepal.
I’m not sure whether or not all of these countries have sent the same kind of information, but the Japanese entry talks about the history of education for the blind and visually impaired in Japan, and how the Japanese Braille code was developed in the late 19th century. I was very interested to read this, because I knew almost nothing about this subject.
Mr. Tanaka says that all of the entries from the various countries will eventually be printed and made into a book, which will then be sent to many organisations for the blind and visually impaired around the world.
Let’s hope that the project is successful!
If you want to know more about Japanese Braille, then please look at this Wikipedia article about it.

JAWS Users Mailing List Home Page

Good afternoon everyone.
I recently heard about a very useful web site. It’s called the JAWS Users Mailing List Home Page.
On this page, you can find lots of useful resources:

• Audio tutorials about lots of accessible programmes
• many useful programmes that work well with Jaws, and often also include Jaws scripts to make them even more accessible
• a page of Jaws scripts for many programmes
• and a page of tips and tricks about how to use Jaws.

The page also has many other very useful sections, including some forms which you can use to subscribe to various mailing lists about JAWS. I’ve also added this page to the Useful Links page.
Please take a look at it and tell us what you think.