Thursday, August 12, 2010

Revision Task 2: A typical Question 2 (Part One)

Question 2: Word processing issues Part 1

Working in the header or footer of the document. LOOK at the header and footer toolbar and ensure you know what you can do with it.
Look at the word menu called Insert and investigate what all the features are capable of changing. For example: Insert and then Auto Text, go look at these. A lot of learners cannot insert the page number X of Y, because they do not use insert, auto text.
To insert a date that updates automatically when you open the document.
How to insert a picture and Word Art and to group them together so that they move as one object, how to get text in front of the picture and to get the picture to act as a watermark/washed out background image.
Paper size, landscape or portrait, the width of the header and footer, margins and check out the TAB, layout in the Page Setup menu.
Text: Paragraph spacing, paragraph alignment, paragraph indent – all of these under menu item Format, paragraph.
To copy and paste special objects into a word document. For example to copy a portion of an Excel spreadsheet to a word document and then to choose paste special and tick the radial button that says: paste link and the two documents will be linked to update when the Excel portion changes.
Everything we have taught you about tables since Grade 10. Cell sizes, borders, line thickness, alignment of text in cells, alignment of table on paper, cell shading, merging of cells, deleting and adding of rows or columns, formatting of graphics in a cell.
Tab settings – tabs with leader dots, decimal tabs, tabs in tables etc.