Editing
Learn How To Edit Data Quickly and Effeciently
One of the unintended consequences (blow back is what they call in the CIA) that the information age has brought us is too much information. Nothing new, you might be saying and that is true I am not the first person to bring up that point. The problem we have today is we have an army of computer novices running a high tech world. With the amount of information that Is floating around out there you have to be able to filter in a quick and efficient and sometimes even accurate manner. Editing skills are one of the most important skills a computer user can have. I am not talking about the editing that a proof reader would do. I am talking about the editing of data which is essentially information from one location to another. This movement can occur from a web page into an email or tweet and out to a group of people around the world or it can be as local as from one column on a spreadsheet to another.
The very minimum that anyone should know is copy, cut, paste and delete. Throw in some navigation like going to the beginning and the end of the line, page up and page down, tabbing through form fields and I might hire you to sort through my emails. If you can’t do everything and much more from the list above stick around and I will teach how to play the computer.
The Copy Command