Open the document we were working on last Computer Skills lesson, the one about the Socceroos. You should find it in the edupublic (P:) drive in the Year 9/10 CompSkills folder.
Read and understand the tutorials titled “Word - Selecting Text” and “Word - Find and Replace”. Then do the following.
Use the “Find and Replace” feature […]
Word has a variety of language tools that will not only correct spelling and grammer but help you use a variety of descriptive words by finding synonyms. Also Word can be used to create a “hypermedia” document, connecting your file to the Web or other files (image, text, sound, movie etc) on your hard-drive.
First thing […]
What is “Multimedia?”
Multi- means more than one.
Media- forms of communication. For example text, pictures, sounds, movies, animation.
The Internet was originally a text only medium, even pictures could not be displayed in browsers with text. Computing in general has undergone a revolution over the past 20 years with the growth of “multimedia” applications. From DVD’s and […]
Spreadsheets can be used for many applications from financial book-keeping to statistics. Spreadsheets are more than just rows and columns, a well designed spreadsheet should be “dynamic”. This feature of a spreadsheet means it will change and adapt according to the data input. If the data changes, so too does the results the spreadsheet calculates. […]
Year 7/8
The next Computer Skills project for you to do is to crete a Newsletter using MS Word. Eventually this will involve formatting a page with a header and footer, re-sizing and inserting images, formatting text and creating text columns.
Here’s an example that I created…
Before you start you need to design the basic element of your […]
Creating documents using Microsoft Word allows for the manipulation and display of text and other information. Tables, which are made up of rows and columns that form cells, can be utilized to organize information in your document.
Formatting text, structuring your document, and adding a little bit of aesthetic appeal to your document are just a […]