WEEK 2

Lecture Summary
For the second week in this lecture we were told about the Microsoft application and had to list them dawn. We also had to list the internet browsers. We find out about the compatibility of this Microsoft on windows visa and an easy way to access softwares. Basically click on the start button and type name of the software in start search and enter. Also during this lecture we gained an understanding on how to use softwares like the Microsoft word, power point, and excel which will be needed and used in this course and throughout other units.

TUTORIAL Summary
This week during the TUT we leant more about Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Excel 2007. Of course Microsoft applications are very important so we had to doing exercises to get familiar with some features of these softwares. After doing a word and an excel exercise we were able to use verity of features which is very useful in both softwares.

Here are some features that we had to do in the word exercise.

Line spacing
This feature basically used to leave space between each line. Can be required

Page break
Another useful feature is the page break which will be needed. Choose lines that needs to be transferred to another page then insert while pressed on page break.

Header and Footer
This is very important. To identify your work and your content you need to include header and footer.

Cover Page
All assessments must have the right cover page. You can choose the suitable cover page. The cover page will include:

• Our name


• Tutors name


• The topic


• Table of content

These are some exercises that help us learn learn about Microsoft Excel.

• Creating a table with headings


• Adjusting column width and row height


• Adjust borders


• Use colour to highlight some parts of the table


• Use different formulas to sum and calculate the average


• Create two different charts using chart wizard
  

Reading 1 Summary

In this reading it gave us tips about using Microsoft word for APA tasks and also showed us screen shots of the typeface, margins and alignment, alphabetizing refrence list, keeping with text, page headers and page numbers, line spacing, use documents comments and such.

Reading 2 Summary

In this reading we find out about the diference between the most common types of graphic file formats for example bitmap(.bmp),compuserve(.gif), joint photographic experts group (.jpg) and also the tagged-image fime formate (.tiff).