Theory question 105
Software and Operating SystemsPaper 2, Section B: Test of Practical Work
A student was given an assignment which involved typesetting a passage at home using a laptop computer. The student was required to bring the soft copy of the assignment in a flash drive with volume label STUDENT_ASSIGNMENT to the school. Highlight the steps the student would take to: (a) save the typeset work in the flash drive; (b) create a folder named ASSIGNMENTS on the desktop of a computer in the school's computer laboratory and save the typeset assignment in the folder; (c) print the assignment from the folder created in 5(b).
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(a) Insert the flash drive into a USB port; in Word click File → Save As; choose the flash drive (STUDENT_ASSIGNMENT) as the location; type a file name; click Save.
(b) Right-click the desktop → New → Folder; type ASSIGNMENTS and press Enter; insert the flash drive, open it, right-click the assignment file → Copy; open the ASSIGNMENTS folder → right-click → Paste.
(c) Open the ASSIGNMENTS folder; open the assignment (double-click); click File → Print (Ctrl + P); choose the printer and number of copies; click Print. (Or right-click the file → Print.)
Save As lets you choose the flash drive as the location.