Word & DP

Practical Task From Hodder Education IGCSE ICT Book

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Task

1.       Open the file Text1.rtf and insert the file Table1.csv as a table within the document.

2.       Change the document heading to “Winter weather forces schools to close”.

3.       Move the last sentence in the document so that it becomes the last sentence in the paragraph.

4.       Add a new subtitle “school closures” just above the table, and add this short paragraph: The dramatic change in the weather has meant that a number of areas has been experiencing transport problems. This means that many schools across the country have been closed. ‘between the subtitle and the table.

5.       In the third paragraph change the word ‘was’ to ‘is’, and add the word ‘has’ between counties and ‘reported’.

6.       Add the images Heavy Snow fall, Snow Man and SNOWBALL.jpg  from the file.

7.       Resize the image SNOWBALL.jpg to 8 cm high maintain its aspect ratio. Place this at the top right of the first paragraph.

8.       Resize the Snow Man image to 2.8 cm high and 2 cm wide. Place this at the top left of the second paragraph. Ensures that the text wraps around both of these images.

9.       Place the Heavy Snow fall image to the right of the table, aligned to the right margin. Resize this image if needed.

10.   Crop the image Snowball to remove the top 25% of it. Ensures that all the text and images fit on a single page.

11.   Change the page size to A5 and the orientation to landscape. Set the top and bottom margins to 3cm and the left and right margin to 3.5 cm. place your name in the centre of the header. Place the date and time on the left, an automated page number in the centre and the filename on the right in the footer.

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12.   Add the text “Winter wonderland or woe” as a new title at the start of the document. Keep the two titles on the first page of the document.

13.    Set the orientation of the first page to portrait and columns, with a 2 cm spacing and vertical line between the columns.

14.   Set all of the text on the first page to an 18 point sans serif font.

15.   Make the sub-heading a 13 point sans serif font and the body text a 13 point serif font.

16.   Make the text ‘Winter wonderland or woe’ red.

17.   Make the name of each airport in the text stand out by highlighting it in cyan.

18.   Make all of the text in the top row of the table an italic font. Make the word snowmen and snow angels bold. Underline the subheading.

19.   Set all of the text on the first page to an 18 point sans serif font. Make the subheading a 13 point sans serif font and the body text a 13 point serif font

20.   Add the following paragraph at the end: “ Temperature recorded at the end of one weather station in Ross-on-Wye during the week read:” below this add the following table.

_______________Table __________________________________________________________

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Open the file TEXT4.rtf and place your name on the left, today’s date in the centre and the file name on the right in the header.

Make the blue text into a bulleted list, using a bullet of your choice.

Make sure that this bulleted list is indented by at least 2cm.

Make the green text into a numbered list, using numbers followed by bracket.

Make the red text into a bulleted sub-list, indented from the numbered list using different bullet points.

Change the color of all the text to black.

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Open the file TEXT5.rtf and place your name on the right in the header.

Delete the second column and the ‘Martial Arts’ row. Insert a new third column with this data.

                                            --------------------------------------------------------------------------------à144

Insert a new row between the  ‘Dance Workshop’ and ‘Discover Scuba’ with this data.

144

Merge cells 2 and 3 in the top and cells 4 and 5 in the top row.

Right align all of the cells containing numbers in the second column.

Centre align all of the cells in the top two rows.

Set the background color of all cells in the top two rows to yellow. Ensure that there is no text wrapped within the cells of the table.

Vertically align all data to the top of each cell.

Remove the grid lines from any unused cells.

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Open the file TEXT6.rtf and place your name in the centre of the header.

 Make only the title a 36 point sans serif font that is centre aligned and fits in a single, full width column.

 Move the third paragraph so that it becomes the last paragraph. Fully justify the body text. Centre align the second paragraph with 1.5 line spacing.

 Left align the third paragraph with double line spacing.

 Right align the fourth paragraph.

Make the first word ‘grew’ in the story 16 points high, the second ‘grew’ 20 points and the third ‘grew’ 24 points.

Set the heading spacing to 12 spaces before and 24 spaces after the paragraph.

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 Open TEXT3.rtf and place your name on the right in the header in a 14 point serif font. Place the file name in the centre of the footer.

Change the twelve items listed into a bulleted list. Use a bullet of your choice. Make sure that this bulleted list is indented by at least 3 cms.

21.   Open the file TEXT2.rtf and insert the file TABLE2.csv as a table as a table within the document after the paragraph that ends ‘This table shows the number of schools closed in some of the local authorities’.

22.   Change the document heading to ‘Snow brings disruption to Britain’.

23.   Move the last paragraph in the document so that it becomes the first paragraph.

24.   Add the text ‘Heavy snowfalls were reported to the north of London. London was also affected but not the same extent as the disruption that has been caused the week before.’ As a new paragraph immediately before the paragraph that starts ‘flights were suspended …..’.

25.   Add the image TREES.jpg and rotate it through 180 degrees. Resize it to 7 cm wide, maintaining its aspect ratio. Place it at the top left of the first paragraph. Ensure that the text wraps around this image.

26.   Add the image SNOWANGEL . place and resize this image at the start of the second paragraph, so that it left and right aligns with the text wrapped around the first image like this:

 

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27.  Crop the top and bottom of the SNOWANGEL image so that the child is within 5ml of the edge of the image.

28.  Add an image of a car or train from clipart and place this at the bottom of page 1 so that it moves the table onto page 2.

29.  Add the image of car and place this in an appropriate place on page 2.

30.  Save and print this document.

Open the file ACTIVITY3.rtf. Change the page size to A4 and the orientation to portrait. Set all the margins to 4 cm and remove the gutter.

Place the date on the left, the file name in the centre and the time on the right in the header.

 Place your name on the left and an automated page number on the right in the footer. Ensure that the header and the footer are 2 cm from the top and bottom of the page respectively.

 Save and print the document.

Change the page margins to 2 cm and the alignment of the header and footer to fit the margins.

Ensure that the header and footer are 1 cm from the top and bottom of each page.

Add a new title ‘Arctic blast grips the United Kingdom’ at the start of the document.

Place the two titles on a single portrait page with a single column.

All other text should be on landscape pages, in three columns with 1.5 cm column spacing.