I had a huge learning curve. My daughter never read the manual and can create quilts. Go figure.
It isn't anything like Word or Excel, which I play around in some. You just about have to read the manual and/or have some other type lessons. I use maybe 25% of what the program will do. I got the manual as a free download on the Electric Quilt website. You might want to look at it some. Now, having said all that, would I buy it again....YES!!!! I don't like drawing patterns on graph paper and I frequently like to resize blocks or copy them.
I only use about 15 to 20% of what the program can do. I do the DoYouEQ Challenge each month to try to increase my knowledge of the program. It is helping, but I'll probably be learning the program until I die.