Use the help
This morning, when the director of mine gave me the CD containing the SAP help
documentations, I knew that, the real way of learning SAP which is the leading ERP software had begun.
You may wonder, why did I say so anyway? You can also learn it without help, what is the difference? Those questions are the following contents about which this article will talk.
Let's me ask you some questions first. How do you learn software? Use the texts? Bought some introduction books? Step by Step following those presentations? Ask your classmates and colleges? Go to some training schools with payments? Well, those methods are proven effective in different degrees, however, the
critical role you yourself has been overlooked. To master new software, you must be self motivated, to motivate yourself, you must use the help.
Because help
documentation is the guru of that software, with the most recognized explanations plus the profuse resources. Specific introductions, details about commands, intuitive figures can be found. If you have any question, just refer it.
Yes, you could learn certain skills about software without referring to the help. Those are the common cases when you learn some intuitive oriented software such as MS-WORD, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Flash, 3D MAX, or etc. OK, you can draw basic shapes in AutoCAD by drag-and-see, you can create a simple
document in MS-WORD even without any reference, that is true, but how about to catch
insight and
wanting to act more professional, in case of that, those
preliminary books won't and can't teach you that. So you have to refer to the help to make your work much more pretty or like the published magazines when you use MS-WORD, or to draw 100 circles at different
locations at one time using AUTOLISP in AutoCAD. Let's image that you are creating a shoot game using FLASH, to make it more attractive, the flying targets should appear in vary places, at this time, the
random function is needed. How to use the
random function
correctly, match up the parameters, you must look up the help. Of course you can open the book you bought which happens to include the
random function, but I bet in most cases its contents are akin to the help's.
The help reduces your economic burdens and time.
As you maybe already
experienced, some books, especially about
graphic designs, are very thick and expensive. All right, you need those art works to
illuminate your road to be an artist once the software skill is no longer the
obstacle, however, at this stage, we are talking about the effective way of learning the software well, that is using the help.
Take the household brand 3D MAX for example, it is a very powerful, complicated, sophisticated modeling software which has
comprehensive usages in
architect, industry design, special movie effect, game develop and
cartoon creation, etc. I knew a guy who has 3 years experiences of using it who is an drawer of
architect effect, he does well in common modeling and he can draw
majesticmansion without too much time, however, he can not do much in dynamic effects such as
cartoon design, worse, he can not
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precisely unless he use those dialogues to set a large number of parameters, it is obviously
tedious and lacks of efficiencies to do those repeating, or special and
precise required work. So I suggested him to learn the 3D MAX
script language contained in the help instead of spending a lot of money on those huge books among which are just aim to drive your money out of your pocket. It also save your time, all the information you need depends on your fingertip, you have no need to waste time on leafing through the huge book page by page. Another thing I want to point out is that those examples in the help are very intuitive and vivid and the pedagogic in it is more scientific and suitable comparing with others. Ask yourself, have you examined the materials in the 3D MAX help thoroughly? Is it not better and vivid than the books you've already read? Which is more explicit? Which is more understandable? And which is more comprehensible? You can have a try and to see whether it is suitable for you.
The help broadens your horizon and makes you internationalization. Unless you confine yourself in the domestic market, you will encounter the situation to
communicate with the foreign peers, you have to use the parlance in your field, and the help is the best way of learning those specializing words. You use calculus to talk with a mathematician, screw with a mechanic engineer, color space with a user of Photoshop, etc. Do not wait to learn till that day in need, from now on. The help also can make you more knowledgeable, take the best scientific computing software MATLAB for instance, it consists of lots of toolboxes and each covers a large realm, you can
investigate them in
leisure if you are interested.
There are so many benefits you can gain from the using of help, for the
limited scope, I just presented a part of them. You will enjoy a
joyful and
fruitful journey if you try yourself in action.
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