L6 Word Processing

Question 1

What is the ASCII number for A?

Answer 1

65

Question 2

What is the ASCII number for a?

Answer 2

97

Question 3

What word has been represented using ASCII? [69, 65, 83, 89]?

Answer 3

EASY

Question 4

What word has been represented using ASCII? [67, 111, 109, 112, 83, 99, 105]?

Answer 4

CompSci

Question 5

Whats the ASCII numbers for YES?

Answer 5

89, 69, 83

Question 6

What is a text editor?

Answer 6

Application software that enables the user to edit text
(.txt)
Examples:
Notepad
Notepad++
Textpad

Question 7

What are Word processors?

Answer 7

Application software that enables the user to edit text and add formatting to the text
(.doc) (.odt)
Examples:
Microsoft Word
Apple pages
OpenOffice Writer

Question 8

What does the font window let you change?

Answer 8

• Font
• Style (bold, italic)
• Size (in points)
• Colour
• Effects (strikethrough, subscript, superscript)

Question 9

What does the paragraph window let you change?

Answer 9

• Alignment
• Indentation
• Spacing
• The ‘Line and Page Breaks’ tab let you adjust how the paragraph behaves between pages

Question 10

What are styles and what are advantages of styles?

Answer 10

A named group for formatting changes that can be applied to text in the document

Advantages:
Gives the document a consistent appearance
Makes applying formatting faster:

Select the content and apply the style.
Modified the style and all content using the style have their formatting updated automatically.

Question 11

What are Headers and Footers?

Answer 11

Header: content found in the top margin of every page

Footer: content found in the bottom margin of every page

Question 12

What are Footnotes and Endnotes?

Answer 12

Footnote:
- small note located at the bottom of a page.
- provides more information about something in the main text

Endnote:
- text that appears at the END of the document

Question 13

What are formatting symbols?

Answer 13

Formatting symbols are non-printing characters that are used to mark spaces, paragraphs and page breaks etc. in a document.

Question 14

What are page breaks?

Answer 14

Page breaks mark where the current page ends.
Anything below the page break is moved to the next page of the document.

Question 15

What are section breaks?

Answer 15

• Section breaks mark the point where one section ends and a new section begins
• Individual sections can have their own

Question 16

What are the two types of section breaks?

Answer 16

Continuous: the new section begins on the same page as the original section

Next page: the new section begins on a new page after original section

Question 17

What is plagiarism and what does it include?

Answer 17

Involves taking another person’s ideas, words, or inventions and presenting them as your own.

It includes:
- Paraphrasing, or summarising another person’s work

• Using graphs, images or other media from someone else’s work

Question 18

What is citation and references?

Answer 18

Citation:
- Tells readers where the information came from
- Usually shown within the text (Kent, 2001)

References:
- Provides details about the source
- Should enable reader retrieval of source
- Found at the end of a document

Question 19

Activity: What word has been represented using ASCII? [67, 76, 65, 83, 83]

Answer 19

CLASS

Question 20

What is one advantage of using style?

Answer 20

Consistency, Quick to change

Question 21

What are formatting symbols and what are they used to mark?

Answer 21

Invisible characters used to mark spaces, paragraphs and page breaks