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Access to HE – The ICT Units The Word Processing Unit – Introduction This unit consists of a series of tasks, designed to improve and prove your skills in using a word processing program to produce documents of various types. Hopefully, it will assist you when producing documents for your other Access to HE units and improve the quality, presentation and consistency of those documents. The college currently has Microsoft Office 2003 installed on most of its PC’s and the supporting material for this unit will mostly be for that version. You may however have Office 2007 or even 2010 on your own computer or use the free OpenOffice suite. If you require help with those applications, don’t hesitate to ask the tutor. Other sources of guidance are also available – see the college Portal and the ICT Induction section for more information. The Tasks As mentioned, to complete this unit, you must produce a series of word processed documents, which will be checked and passed by your ICT tutor and should be printed out and presented in a portfolio (binder) for final assessment. The tasks will be posted on the college S drive and on Sharepoint and you may complete them at your own pace as the course progresses. All tasks completed must be saved as directed, preferably in Microsoft Office 2003 format. All tasks completed should be emailed to your ICT tutor (using your college email) to be checked, hopefully passed and printed. As you have a limited number of college print credits, you may find that last option useful to you as the year progresses. The Word Processing Unit – Task 1 Open your Word Processing program, start a new document and type in the text in the box below: Anyone can Word Process – but doing it properly is a skill These days, Word Processing is probably the one program most people will use, to type some form of document; a letter maybe, a list of shopping items, or perhaps a longer document. Most people new to computers can usually manage to produce a simple document without help. Word Processing programs are designed to be easy and convenient to use, but like many other computer applications, have many options and controls that are, at first sight hidden, or merely difficult for the uninitiated to understand and master. Most untrained people are also unaware that Word Processing should follow certain conventions of document layout and presentation, to better get across the original intention of the writer to the prospective audience. A letter for example will be laid out differently to a notice and documents may also need to present certain kinds of information, such as lists, tables and images. Therefore the choice of layout, fonts and images used can all be used to assist the reader. So paying attention to the aforementioned items will improve your documents. Are you confident that you are competent or even expert at word processing? Completing this and the rest of the tasks in the unit will hopefully prove your competence and increase your confidence in producing good word processed documents that will improve your overall standard of work on the Access to HE units. Type your name at the end of the document and save it to your Z drive with the file name: ict_wp_task1. You should make a folder on your Z drive called ‘ICT – Word Processing’ to save it in. If you need help accessing your Z drive and making a folder, ask your tutor. Finally, you should email the file as an attachment to the ICT tutor. Pete’s college email address is [email protected] Again, if you need help with this, ask the tutor. Pete Gill - 2010
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Access to HE – The ICT UnitsThe Word Processing Unit – IntroductionThis unit consists of a series of tasks, designed to improve and prove your skills in using a word processing program to produce documents of various types. Hopefully, it will assist you when producing documents for your other Access to HE units and improve the quality, presentation and consistency of those documents.
The college currently has Microsoft Office 2003 installed on most of its PC’s and the supporting material for this unit will mostly be for that version. You may however have Office 2007 or even 2010 on your own computer or use the free OpenOffice suite. If you require help with those applications, don’t hesitate to ask the tutor. Other sources of guidance are also available – see the college Portal and the ICT Induction section for more information.
The TasksAs mentioned, to complete this unit, you must produce a series of word processed documents, which will be checked and passed by your ICT tutor and should be printed out and presented in a portfolio (binder) for final assessment. The tasks will be posted on the college S drive and on Sharepoint and you may complete them at your own pace as the course progresses.
All tasks completed must be saved as directed, preferably in Microsoft Office 2003 format.
All tasks completed should be emailed to your ICT tutor (using your college email) to be checked, hopefully passed and printed. As you have a limited number of college print credits, you may find that last option useful to you as the year progresses.
The Word Processing Unit – Task 1Open your Word Processing program, start a new document and type in the text in the box below:
Anyone can Word Process – but doing it properly is a skill
These days, Word Processing is probably the one program most people will use, to type some form of document; a letter maybe, a list of shopping items, or perhaps a longer document. Most people new to computers can usually manage to produce a simple document without help. Word Processing programs are designed to be easy and convenient to use, but like many other computer applications, have many options and controls that are, at first sight hidden, or merely difficult for the uninitiated to understand and master.
Most untrained people are also unaware that Word Processing should follow certain conventions of document layout and presentation, to better get across the original intention of the writer to the prospective audience. A letter for example will be laid out differently to a notice and documents may also need to present certain kinds of information, such as lists, tables and images. Therefore the choice of layout, fonts and images used can all be used to assist the reader.
So paying attention to the aforementioned items will improve your documents. Are you confident that you are competent or even expert at word processing? Completing this and the rest of the tasks in the unit will hopefully prove your competence and increase your confidence in producing good word processed documents that will improve your overall standard of work on the Access to HE units.
Type your name at the end of the document and save it to your Z drive with the file name: ict_wp_task1. You should make a folder on your Z drive called ‘ICT – Word Processing’ to save it in. If you need help accessing your Z drive and making a folder, ask your tutor.
Finally, you should email the file as an attachment to the ICT tutor.
Pete’s college email address is [email protected]
Again, if you need help with this, ask the tutor.
Pete Gill - 2010
