Week 2: Office Applications

Week 2

Lecture:

We started off with how many Microsoft applications you can list and how many internet browsers you can list. Also some tips on creating power points and viewing adobe pdf files.

Tutorial:

We did the excel and word exercises from BlackBoard. We learned how to create a table of contents, make headers and footers and how to insert page numbers.

Tutorial Tasks
In class we used microsoft word.
We learnt how to create a coverpage and a contents table and also how to make headers and footers.


Here is how to create a coverpage in word

Click on the Insert tab on the ribbon, then click on Coverpage and choose yor coverpage
To create Headers & Footers
On the ribbon, click on the Insert tab

Here you will find the Header and Footer option

here you can select built in header styles, the same is for creating footers

To remove or edit your header and/or footer go to Insert tab--Header or footer, at the bottom of the menu you will find Remove Footer/Header and Edit Footer/Header

To create a contents page

On the ribbon go to the refernces tab, click Table Of Contents, a list of styles will appear, choose one

When you create headings and sub headings, you can update the contents table by clicking on the contents table then by clicking update table. always choose update entire table.


Here are some keyboard short-cuts
Ctrl + up arrow- will take you to the start of the paragraph
Ctril + down arrow - take you to end of paragraph
Ctrl + left/right arrow- allows you to jump between words
Ctrl + Shift + Home - takes you to the start of the document
Ctrl + Shift + End- takes you to end of document
Ctrl + N- opens a new document

Excel Excercises

We also had to do some excel excercises.
We had to make a table of activities such as eating, sleeping and travelling
Including a pie chart showing the average number of hours spent doing each activity per week
We also had to make a bar graph of the hours we spend socialising each day

Here are the charts

Readings

Using MS Word for APA tasks
This reading gives you general tips on how to use word, including how to create hyphens and dashes, highlighting words, how to set up the margins and line spacing. It gives you step by step instructions on how to do a variety of things in MS Word.

Graphic File Formats
It tells you what bitmap (.bmp), CompuServe (.gif), Jpeg (.jpg), Tagged-Image Format (.tiff) and photoshop document (.psd `.psp`.spp) file formats are and what they're used for and when they're used.