Theory question 106
Word ProcessingPaper 2, Section B: Test of Practicals
A student was asked to record the type of vehicle that entered the school compound the school's main gate on a Monday morning. The passage below is an excerpt from the student's report on the assignment. “Report on the vehicular traffic at the gate on Monday. 1. Introduction: I was directed by the school principal to sit at the main gate and record type and number of vehicles that passed through the gate on Monday morning. 2. Observation: I arrived the gate at about 8:00 am and left at 12 noon. During this period, I made the following observation: Car, bus, bus, car, car, lorry, motorcycle. bus, bus, car, car, car, lorry, motorcycle, tricycle, motorcycle, car, tricycle, motorcycle, bus, bus.”
(a) Beginning from the desktop, outline a step by step procedure of how to type the passage in MS word, using A4 paper size and potrait orientation.
(b) State the procedure for carrying out the following operations in the passgage: (i) Begin the second and third sentences in new paragraphs; (ii) Write the first sentence in capital letters, undeline it and bold it; (iii) Begin the first letter of a sentence with capital letters; (iv) Represent the student's observation in a table with three columns under the headings; Serial Number, Type of vehicle, Number of vehicle; (v) Merge the first two cells of the last row of the table, type “Total” and give the total number of vehiclesobserved in the column for number of vehicles; (vi) Save the document with the name “Vehicular traffic”; (vi) Print the document.
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(a) Click Start → All Programs → Microsoft Office → Microsoft Word (or double-click the Word icon on the desktop); click Page Layout → Size → A4; click Orientation → Portrait; type the passage.
(b)(i) Click just before the second sentence and press Enter; do the same before the third sentence.
(ii) Select the first sentence; press Shift+F3 (or Home → Change Case → UPPERCASE); click B (Bold) and U (Underline).
(iii) Select the text and use Change Case → Sentence case (or retype the first letter with Shift held).
(iv) Insert → Table → 3 columns and enough rows; type headings Serial Number, Type of vehicle, Number of vehicle; enter: 1 Car 7, 2 Bus 6, 3 Lorry 2, 4 Motorcycle 4, 5 Tricycle 2.
(v) Select the first two cells of the last row → right-click → Merge Cells; type Total; in the third cell type 21.
(vi) File → Save As → type Vehicular traffic → Save.
(vii) File → Print (Ctrl+P) → choose printer and number of copies → OK/Print.
Count each vehicle type carefully from the list before filling the table: car 7, bus 6, lorry 2, motorcycle 4, tricycle 2, total 21.