Find Out Exactly WHY Learning New Software is Such a Slow and Frustrating Pain In the Neck!!!

Then Discover How To Use the Software Quickly and Easily by Completely Eliminating Frustration From The Whole Learning Process,...

Yes we've all been there before so we all know how annoying, frustrating and time consuming it can be to learn new software.

But why is learning new software such a frustrating pain in the neck? I mean it's not exactly rocket science!

Well, there is one major skill that all of us lack and not one training tool has ever been produced to give you that skill easily and quickly, simply because it would take months of work to provide it.

So I took up the challenge and created it myself!... and yes, it did take me months!

This skill is so vital that it's impossible to make progress without it. It's also the root source of all the frustration you have to endure because it's a skill that takes far too long to develop on it's own.

However, now that I have created this unique software training tool you can now acquire this skill 10 times faster and without even switching your computer on!

When you do switch your computer on and launch the program for the first time, you will find that you already feel totally comfortable and familiar with it, which puts you half way up the learning curve before you've even started!

Two of our customers left great feedback that I really appreciated because I thought they really hit the nail on the head when it comes to Menu Map Guides. Thanks to both of them. Here's what they said,...

“For the life of me I just cannot understand why software developers don't provide their own Menu Maps on the CD with every piece of software that they sell." “Surely anyone with half a brain can see how much easier and quicker it would be to use their software when you have a complete map of the whole program literally showing you how it's all laid out and telling you exactly what everything does, right in front of you!... It's got to be the ultimate 'no brainer'!" “Menu Maps have been a long time coming Jeff, so thanks a million for taking the time and making the huge effort it must surely have been to actually create them." Ross Stringer Sydney, Australia

“If you've ever tried doing a 1000 piece jig saw puzzle without the picture on the box lid, then you'll have some idea of how utterly frustrating learning new software can be." “Getting a full set of Menu Maps is like suddenly being handed the box lid with the final picture on it. The task, in one split second, gets 10 or even up to 50 TIMES easier." “Need I really say any more, except a big 'Thank You' and 'I'll be back' as soon as I need to learn anything else in a hurry" Gary Simm New York, USA

First, here's how I came across the answer to the 'learning new software' problem...

Hi, My name is Jeff Brown and I worked as a software trainer in industry for 5 years. I mainly taught graduates how to use big engineering packages and that's where the answer hit me right between the eyes purely by accident.

One graduate, Willie, just couldn't get it. He was at it for weeks and just couldn't get to grips with it. It got so bad that I finally cracked after about a dozen questions in the same morning.

Most of his questions were about where he could find some tool or feature or what tool or feature he should use to do some specific task.

In desperation I grabbed a piece of large format paper and brain dumped the picture I had in my head of the entire menu structure of the program.

I used arrows to represent mouse clicks and very roughly drew boxes for menus and sub menus coming from commands within main menus. Then I wrote brief, to the point  explanations for what they were all for right next to them.

By the time I was finished it was a complete mess. So I sat down with Willie and went through it all with him in about 15 - 20 minutes.

The effect this 'drawing' and my explanation of it had on Willie, was nothing short of miraculous.

Willie went from a struggling new user to whizzing his way around this big engineering program faster than any of the other graduates on the course... in a single afternoon!

I felt certain that this could become a valuable training tool for the next new batch of graduates, so that year, in my spare time, I produced a much clearer and more detailed and concise version of that 'drawing' and called the finished polished item a Menu Map Guide for the software.

I copied it and gave a copy to each of the next years graduates and they were using the software 10 to 20 times faster than any previous graduate intake. It had the same effect on them as it had on Willie the previous year.

I was absolutely stunned.

I reasoned (being an engineer) that if my Menu Maps worked for engineering software then they should work for all windows based software programs.

And boy was I right, they work a treat!

I have now produced Menu Map Guides for a whole range of software titles specially aimed at the beginner.

So why did Willie's progress suddenly go from 'struggling' to 'rocket speed' in a single afternoon?

Here's why,...

When you first start up a new program, all you ever see on your computer screen is a tiny fraction of the whole program. Most of it is hidden deep within the menu structure.

All you see on your screen is the tip of the iceberg!

And trying to find out what the rest of the menu structure is like just by seeing tiny bits of it appear and disappear on and off your computer screen with every mouse click is a very hard way to try to build up a picture in your minds eye of how the whole program is laid out.

And that's not all,...  everything you do see fleetingly appear on your screen probably has half a dozen functions and maybe even a few inputs required by you to make it work.

You need to get to know what all these things are for and what they all do,... as well as trying to remember where they all are so you can find them again when you need them.

It's all too much!

It's like a pilot trying to figure out all the levers, buttons and dials in his cockpit while he's rumbling down the runway for take off!

In his case the result would be a disaster but when you try to do the same thing with software the result is utter frustration.

Software these days is getting huge. Some programs will have anything from 100 to 1000 different user interfaces. And trying to remember them one by one from a computer screen is a hopeless task for most people,... Unless you've got some kind of gifted photographic memory!

But for us mere mortals, we need help with this. Not just because it's hard but because it takes far too long.

Lets simplify all this into one vital skill for learning new software,... What Willie got from me and my 'drawing' that day, was,...

'Program Familiarization',... and just as importantly, he got it fast because I had drawn the whole menu structure out for him and he could now see where everything was and how everything related to everything else,... pretty much at a glance!

It all clicked for him. You could almost see the lights going on in his head as he looked at the 'drawing', and I explained what it all was. He could see the big overall picture. He got a birds eye view of everything and after he did a couple of trial runs following it through with the real program on his computer, he quickly formed a picture of it in his own head.

Program Familiarization is knowing;

a)      What tools and features the program has (it's contents)

b)      What all the tools and features do (their functionality)

c)      Where all the tools and features are (it's layout)

If you remember nothing else on this page, try to at least remember this;

Program Unfamiliarity = Total Frustration and Very Slow Progress

Program Familiarity = Zero Frustration and Very Fast Progress

In other words your Progress with learning how to use any new software program depends on how fast your familiarization with the program develops.

Software is a control panel just like a jumbo jet cockpit is a control panel.

You manipulate, tweak and adjust the controls within it to get your desired output. Whether to fly a plane or to set up your new screensaver.

Now traditionally, familiarization has always been left to take care of itself. The attitude is that you'll just get familiar with it as you go along.

Allow me a small anecdote here for point  a) above.

In a survey carried out by Microsoft, 7 out of 10 new features suggested for the new release by current users of Microsoft Excel,... were already in the program!!!.. so much for letting familiarization take care of itself!

As I've already said, Program Familiarization takes far too long left to develop on it's own and Menu Maps have proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that if you deal with your Program Familiarization first and fast, you will learn how to use the software much faster, much easier, and much more thoroughly.

Thoroughly is not a word you'd normally associate with doing something fast,... but in this case, you get both!

So what exactly are Menu Map Guides?

A full set of Menu Maps is a complete reproduction of the entire software programs menu structure from the top all the way down through the multiple layers of menus and sub menus, to the bottom.

It's a cascading tree type structure that's impossible for your computer to show you but which Menu Maps show you instantly.

Everything you see on the Menu Maps is copied from the program itself (a slight improvement on my original messy 'drawing' I did for Willlie a few years ago) and pasted onto the Menu Maps in exactly the same positions that they occupy in the real program on your computer.

Everything you see on the Menu Maps is labeled and explained so you get totally familiarized in the fastest and easiest way possible.

So the truth is you can get completely familiar with your software before you even install it on your computer.

When you do install it and launch it for the very first time, you will already know what's in it, what everything is for and where everything is and that's a gigantic advantage for any new user for any new software program.

Learning new software is so much easier using Menu Maps that you will master it 10 times faster and with 100 times less frustration that you would otherwise have to endure.

I hope Menu Maps will revolutionize the way everybody learns new software because I know that they work and I know that everybody could do without the frustration that up until now has dominated the learning software process.

Menu Maps will make it all so much easier and because you'll progress so quickly, they actually make it enjoyable!

Some of these Menu Map Guides have taken months to produce but from all the positive feedback we get we're certain that they have been well worth it.

As you know, time is the most precious commodity we all have and we all need to invest our time wisely.

Hand on heart, Menu Maps are a valuable time investment to make,... because they'll literally save you days for small programs, to months for bigger programs,... not to mention all that frustration you'll miss out on too!

By the way, Willie now works all over the world as a consultant design engineer using that same software!

Just select the Menu Maps for your software from the panel on the left of this page entitled 'Full Menu Map Sets'. The order process is as short as it possibly can be and you can download your Menu Maps immediately.