Translating Text Using Word 2003

There is a little known tool in Word 2003 that allows you to translate text from one language to the next. It is not perfect but when the sentences and statements are simple it is pretty fun. Instructions for using this tool are included in the picture.

Training Tech Solutions Conference

Conference

I am actually sitting in my hotel room in SLC (I should be packing) after attending the Training Tech Solutions Conference. Overall it was a very good conference, there were only two one-hour session that seemed to be duds. Pretty good. I attended 3 sessions by Jane Bozarth who I especially enjoyed hearing. She really focuses on getting back to the basics of Instructional Design and she encourages trainers and instructional designers to stop focusing on all of the fancy tools and stuff when much of what you need to do could be done in PowerPoint anyway. I also enjoyed hearing Steven Johnson speak, his session keynote was compelling. I bought a couple of his books that same day. His book "Everything Bad is Good for You" reminds me of Daniel Pink a little bit in his book "A Whole New Mind" he has an interesting take on how some of the elements of pop-culture are affecting the way that we use our minds, it is making us smarter. More on that when I finish the book.

Pastor Karl

Earlier this week, I called around to get in touch with the churches in my denomination. I was surprised to see that there are only 2 here in SLC. I finally got ahold of Pastor Karl and he and I had a burger together. He drove me to both churches and we talked a bit about the affect the LDS church has on our denomination in this city. I promised to be praying for Pastor Karl and his church. Specifically that he would be successful in his ministry to this city.

Temple Square

I did the tour yesterday of the temple square as well as watched two of the free movies they show in the visitor center and Joseph Smith memorial building. One of the movies especially was very well produced and I enjoyed seeing the LDS perspective on their history. I found it funny that before the movie began the usher (an LDS Missionary girl) told everyone that if they needed Kleenexes there were some available. There was some tragic content as far as the part where Joseph and Emma (?) Smith lost many children. It was interesting to me that the reaction of some of the people in the theater was one of highly intense emotion. Interesting new experience for me to be an onlooker for someone else's religious experience without being affected much because of the differences in my beliefs. Overall, I really enjoyed the tour and I must say, the Mormon church does a great job of making everybody feel very welcome and connecting with people.

Reading Layout

It can be annoying when you open a Word Document to have things looks all magnified and blown out of whack. This feature is supposed to be about saving trees (some people hit print all the time when they need to read a document) and is set to turn on automatically when you open documents. If you would like to turn it off just go to:

Tools>Options (General)

(None of the other references I found for this topic included pictures.) Hope you find this helpful, let me know by posting a comment.