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| TapTapper 2003-04-26, 7:15 am |
|  I took Word and Excel core yesterday (I'm going for MOUS, but wanted to start out easy). I passed both, 940 and 970, but the 30 points I missed in Excel were in the FORMATTING section!
I know what happened: the question asking you to color the cells "turquoise". I had a complete brain cramp and couldn't remember what the heck turquoise looked like!! I couldn't believe it. Also the monitor had a bad cable and kept blue-ing out, so it was really just a guess.
Where the heck do they get off asking for "turquoise"?? What ever happened to yellow? Back when Excel only had 8 or so colors, light blue was called "Cyan", and that's still what I call it by gum. I also think that there are two colors that could be called turquoise in the pallette.
Sheesh. Well, on to Word Expert and Powerpoint! | |
| berg891832 2003-04-28, 12:17 am |
| If you use the Fill Color drop down arrow on the Formatting Tooblar, a small tool tip pops up indciating what color is selected.
Bill | |
| doxiepup01 2003-04-28, 5:47 am |
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Actually, the tooltips are disabled for some questions on the Microsoft Office Certification exams. Some questions have menu bars disableed, some have toolbars disabled....the idea is that you should know multiple ways to perform tasks. | |
| TapTapper 2003-04-28, 9:38 am |
| Yeah, the color tooltips were disabled. | |
| thecomeons 2003-04-29, 6:52 am |
| i'm friggin colour-blind. how the hell am i supposed to tell the difference between turquoise and aqua or sky blue for that matter if the names don't appear? | |
| berg891832 2003-04-29, 10:35 am |
| Okay, I hate to contradict the previous posts. Tool tips ARE available during test time, on XP and 2000 anyway. When you click the Font or Shading drop down arrows from the Formatting toolbar, the color name displays as a tool tip when you roll the mouse over the color. Format Cells dialog box, Patterns tab, names don't show up.
On Formatting toolbar, if names don't show up, then they are turned off completely, test or no test. Click Tools, Customize, and Options tab.
Click Show screentips check box.
Bill | |
| TapTapper 2003-04-29, 2:53 pm |
| Tooltips WERE turned on, but were NOT displaying on the color palette.
At the time, I wondered what would happen if I was color blind. There's a choice to tell them you're disabled before you start the test: would that count as a disability? Would they substitute "black" in that question?. | |
| thecomeons 2003-05-01, 3:18 am |
| true colourblindness is seeing things in black and white. given that red or navy would show up as 80% black, it would be hard to differ tween dark grey and black.
i was employed in the print industry for 16 years, and i don't think management ever really knew i had a problem for the first ten of those. LOL. | |
| enforcer 2003-05-22, 6:19 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by thecomeons
true colourblindness is seeing things in black and white.
nothings ever black and white, there's always a bit of grey in there somewhere  |
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