ICT lesson, 4 October 2021 notes
Submit notes on word processing (Chapter 6 in ICT textbook)
Chapter 1 and 5 tend to be common sense
Quick recap on Word processing
Text attributes (mainly related to font, e.g. font type, color)
Paragraph Settings (alignments)
Page Layout (Orientation, margin, etc.)
Table
row is 打橫 and column is 打直
格仔 = Cell
邊界 = Border
Merge cell / split cell
Columns (Page layout function)
Header / Footer
Footer mainly stores page numbers.
Header mainly stores logos & details of the company / school.
Table of Contents
Microsoft Word can automatically generate the table of contents.
Generated by trying to recognize the titles (Bold / Underlined text) in every page.
Spelling and Grammar checker
Spelling: American English and British English is [DIFFERENT] .
Can also check word count. (Note: Cannot really check Chinese characters properly sometimes)
Autocorrect
Autocorrect != Spelling and Grammar check
Predicts what you want to type and automatically corrects your spelling mistakes.
Checks capital letters at the first letter of the sentence.
Thesaurus
Gives a list of words that has the same meaning.
Use with caution.
Mail Merge [IMPORTANT!]
Import Excel Column -> Convert into word table
Extremely useful during work
Used for data analysis
Max Rows = XFD, Max Columns = 1048576
Cell Address = row number & column number, e.g. A1
Format cells (Data type)
Category. Self detecting may cause problems (e.g. mess formatting with extra zeroes)
e.g. Numbers, Text, Date, Percentage, etc.
After switching to text, formatting will be different with numbers. Sorting by ascending order will sort from 1-9 on the first significant figure.
Data format is very important in Microsoft Excel.
Pay attention to data type.
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