Week Two in Accessing Knowledge!

7/3/08

Main points from Lecture Two:

This weeks lecture gave us an insight of how to use and develope our skills in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel programs. This lecture gave as the basic knowledge of how to use these two programs and showed us how they function. Helen Cripps showed us the vital and important knowledge required that were essential to complete tasks using these programs. This unit (UPCOOO4) will acquire us to use Word processing and presentation, Excel spreadsheet, E-mail, the Internet and other various applications to help us succeed in our Uni studies.

Main points from Lab Class Two:

• To start off this weeks lab class, we opened up Blackboard and had a quick overview of what this weeks lesson would contain of.



• We then opened up MS Word and browsed around the program, adapting to the new concept of word, as we are now using the new Windows Vista.



• Week Two's task was to complete an excercise in MS Word. This excercise was designed to extend and familiarise our understanding and knowledge.



• In Word we were required to do multiple tasks, such as:

Insert a Cover Page

Insert Page Break

Format Line Spacing

Create Headings

Insert Header/Footer

Insert Page number

How to format page number

Create a table of Contents

• We also got taught some keyboard shortcuts, that would make using word faster and alot easier.



• For example 'Control' + 'Backspace' which would delete the whole word that was behind the cursor. 'Control' + 'Shift' + 'Home', this would highlight the whole document. We learnt alot of different keyboard combitions such as the examples above.

Excel Spreadsheet

• After we completed all of these tasks above we then went into the internet, and listened to an audio presentation on how to use the new Vista Excel Spreadsheet.



• When the presentation was finished we then went into Excel and Gary went through an example of how Excel works, when you enter information into the spreadsheet.

Reading Summary

Microsoft Word: This website gives out helping tips and guidlines on how to use Microsoft word for APA tasks. It shows quick short cut ways in which you can do things. An example that is on this site is 'Back spacing and deleting'. It shows how to delete and backspace words in a time saving way. The site gives general tips for alot of different functions used in MS Word.