Week 2 - Office Applications

Lecture 14/3/08

Common tasks used on PC's

• File handling
• Word processing

• Presentations
• Internet Access

• Email

Within these common tasks, there are general skills that you need to learn to have your work done properly and to have everything run smoothly. In each of these common task, I have identified some of these skills that will help with making your life much easier.

• File management tasks


• Using and saving documents into specific files


• Naming the files


• Moving and viewing files

Word processing tasks

• Formatting and styles
• Working with templates

• Inserting and formatting images and tables
• Internet tasks

• Browsing
• Net navigation and using hyperlinks
• Bookmarking or using favorites
• Using search engines
• Being able to search for authentic information and develop validation skills

During the lecture i learned that there were more browsers then just Internet Explorer.

Some of these other browsers include:

• Firefox


• Safari


• Opera
  
• Netscape
  

Also that the most common applications used are:

• Microsoft Word
  
• Microsoft Excel


• Microsoft Powerpoint


• Outlook Express and


• Adobe Acrobat Reader
  

Tutorial

Today's tutorial was very productive. We learned the applications of Microsoft word and excel. For example one of the applications for MS Word includes Ctrl + Shift + <- (It highlights words in the document).

Word Activity -

Reading Summary

Graphic File Formats

Graphic files can be saved with different formats and by saving them in certain files they will be met with certain uses. The different types of file formats that you can get for graphics include:

1. .bmp - Bitmap
2. .gif - CompuServe
3. .jpg - Joint Photographic Experts Group
4. .tiff - The tagged-Image File Format and
5. .psd - PhotoShop Document

The most common file format used is .jpg. It is most commonly used to display images on the Internet and retains all the colour of an image.