Computer
Application
Technology
Term 3 Practical
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, Preface
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,Index
● Applying word processing skills:
○ non-breaking spaces, advanced copying, line spacing, document
structure, file management, preparing the document, publishing the
document, integration techniques, embedding objects, linking objects
● Advanced function combinations:
○ using functions to solves problems, scenario, solution, charts, creating
stacked charts, changing the scales of the charts, editing tables,
choosing the correct data
● Apply good website design:
○ good website/page design, reinforce concepts and skills
,Applying word processing skills
• Non-breaking spaces
• Advanced copying
• Line spacing
• Document structure
File management
• Preparing the document
• Publishing the document
Integration techniques
• Embedding objects
• Linking objects
,Non-breaking spaces
It prevents the automatic line break.
How: Go to the space between the words you want to keep together and press
Ctrl+Shift+Space or Ctrl+Shift+- .
Advanced copying
To save time from re-formatting advanced copying gives you the option to copy
text only.
How: Select the text you want to copy, then right
click and copy or press Ctrl+C and then when you
paste click on the keep text only option.
,Line spacing
Line spacing is the space between each line in a paragraph. If
you don’t want the default line spacing you can change it.
How: Go to the home tab and select line spacing in
the paragraph section. On the dropdown list click
on line spacing options and then you can change it
the way you want it.
Document structure
You can change a document structure using the
navigation pane on the left side of a word document.
Make sure that it is turned on in the view tab:
It allows you to view different headings in the
document, view a thumbnail of each page and view
search results.
,Preparing the document
The first most important step for exporting any word document is to make sure that the document
is ready to be published. This includes:
• Making sure all track changes have either been accepted or rejected.
• Deleting all comments.
• Deleting all highlights.
• Checking that all links are working properly.
• Completing the final formatting of the document.
Publishing the document
You can publish a document electronically by using the share option
and you can publish the document as a PDF using Print to PDF or
export to PDF options. If you use print to PDF make sure to click the
option Microsoft Print to PFD. After that when you click on print you
will need to name and select a location to store the PDF file,
,When you click on
the export option it
will open a menu
and when you click
on create PDF/XPS
document you will
have to name and
select a location for
the file to be stored
,Embedding objects
It allows users to take information from another document and make it part of their main
document.
How: Copy the text that you After that open the word document, select where
want by right clicking and you want to insert the text, click on the dropdown
selecting copy or Ctrl+C menu of the paste option and select the paste
special.
, After you click on paste
special a new window will
open where you need to
select Microsoft Excel
Worksheet Object and after
pressing Ok your text will be
imported into a word
document.
