COMMON PC TASKS- week 2

LECTURE

Today we became familiar with the common PC tasks. All that is required for the course.

Windows explorer

Naming conventions

MS Word

Formatting, Styles, Document, Mapping

NOT JUST WORDS ON A PAGE

MS Excel

Record keeping, columns and rows

MS Powerpoint

Graphics, animations, pictures

Internet explorer

Information source

Outlook

emails

The lecture journeyed us through the goods and bads of MS Word. For example: spams, reply forward, CC, BCC, attachments and viruses. I gained alot from this lecture as it showed me exactly what was expected and what I should and shouldn't enter.

READINGS

USING MS WORD FOR APA TASKS

This reading begins with discussing what the two delete buttons are used for on the keyboard. It educates the user on saving valuable time. It informs you on how to use dashes and hyphens, how to highlight a huge block of text, to remove hyperlinks simplifying it by expressing a number of different methods. It shows how to use each function and defines how each concept works. This is extremely useful as it shows the best use of each aspect and how you can save your time and getting your work done quicker.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

This is the introduction to all those files that we save things under, normally not taking any notice what each is for.

Bitmap (.bmp) - image format file

CompuServer (.gif) - Minimizes file transfer time

Joint Photographic Experts Group or Jpeg (.jpg) - Display images on the internet, retains all colour information

The Tagged- Image File Format (.tiff)- Exchanges files over computer applications and platforms

Photoshop Document (.psd/ .psp/ .spp)- Image formats flat images.

TUTORIAL ACTIVITIES

During the tutorial we approached simple exercises that enabled us to experience MS Word and MS Excel. I particularly enjoyed the excel activity as I am not familiar with this program. The MS Word program did appear to be quite easy as I have experimented with this beforehand. I suppose it is a great guide to newcomers.