Getting Started With Google Adwords

I've started this blog out of frustration
as much as anything. It is Sunday and
I've been given a free Google Adwords code
by Google and I'm trying to run an ad.

The tool that Google gives you to run ads
appears to be relatively sophisticated.
It allows you to do many things. Of course,
the more sophisticated the tool, the harder
it is to get started.

I may have to wait until tomorrow to get my
Adwords campaign going. Right now, my campaign
has a status of paused and I can't seem
to get it going.

There's a green dot to the left of my campaign
that indicates that my campaign is enabled. Yet,
when I look to the right, I see that the campaign
is paused. I don't understand the difference.

Here's Google's official answer on how to enable
an ad campaign:

How do I
edit, pause, or delete a campaign?

For some reason, I'm not able to get the official
answer to do what I think it is supposed to do.

Update: I finally figured it out. I'm using an
outdated browser. I'm using an old version of
Google Chrome under Linux.

When I switched to Google Chrome under Windows XP,
it works perfectly. I'm now able to enable my ad.

The thing I still need to figure out is whether or
not my ad is actually running.I'm very very clumsy
with this Adwords thing. I'm not good at this at
all.

I think maybe I expect too much from life. Should
I know how navigate software the first time I see
it? Probably not.

I need to be patient as I learn how to work with
the Google Adwords interface.

Ed Abbott