In the week two lecture, the topic that was dicussed was 'Office Applications'.
here were 7 main office applications brought to attention;
- Windows Explorer
- MSWord
- MS Excel
- MS Powerpoint
- Internet Explorer
- Outlook/ Outlook Express
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
By the end of this course we should be able to generally have a knowledge and an understanding on how to use these applications and to be able to apply them to everyday computer skills. I believe that using these applications and learning them from top to bottom, we will easily be able to use these more and more often as our university careers deepen.
We were taken through the basics of everyday office tasks on the PC such as Forming a MS Word document and being able to use the different types of formatting options to change around the document.
We were also taken through another important office application, MS Excel. Just like Word, we were taken through the basic information to create a simple excel spreadsheet. Before this week, i was not so familiar with MS excel, so i have found thatit has helped me alot to understand how it works.
We also discussed browsing the internet and the most popular and important browsers such as:
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Netscape
- Ninemsn
Tutorial Content
During the tutorial we worked on a few exercises on Word and Excel As you can see above we did two exercises, just to deal with the main aspects of using Word and Excel to it's full extent. As i mentioned before i am not really familiar with MS Excel although i am pleased with the result and i thnk this exercise really helped me.
A Ms Word Document done in tutorial 2 following the guidelines given.
An excel document done in the tutorial following the guidelines given.
Reading One
We also read through two resource readings for this week. One was "Using MS Word for APA tasks". This reading was interesting because it explained all the main functions of Ms Word and also helped us through the exercises. It was set out in seb topics, having all the important points of MS word as the heading. It was very much to help someone who was not used to Word or had never used it before. There were many things from this article which i never knew were called certain things such as the "typeface". All in all this reading was very helpful when doing the activity and it also taught me some terminology for the future.
Reading Two
The Second Reading we did was called "Graphic File Formats"which was about formatting picture and graphics on your computer. It explained each type of file that a picture can be saved to. Such as;
- (.bmp): (Bitemap) -being the standard Windows image format.
- (.gif): (CompuServe)- made to save time when saving the image.
- (.jpg): (Joint photographic experts)- Most popular to use on the internet. Retains more colour than Bitemap or CompuServe.
- (.tiff): (The tagged-image file format)- Best to use while exchanging image between differnt types of PC's such as -Windows, IBM and Macintosh.
- (.psd or .psp or .spp) Photoshop Document- Multiple layered technology, having more data in one single document(more advanced).
This reading was very interesting to me because I had used these formats so many times although never knew the difference between them, it was very interesting to learn all the different ones there are and exactly what they are best at.
