Week Two, Office Applications, 7th August 2007

Lecture

The lecture for week two consisted of using basic applications in the computer this included:

• Windows Explorer
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Internet Explorer
• Outlook/Outlook Express
• Adobe Acrobat Reader

Each applications was explained briefly and why they are used in University, these applications are said to be the most used applications by students in University. Also a demonstration of how to access the ECU library web page was also shown. During the tutorial the activity involve using both Microsoft Word and Excel.

Workshop

The tutorial for the Microsoft Word consisted in completing various task that involves using basic functions of Microsoft Word. The end production of the task is shown below.

First page-

Second page-

The Microsoft Excel exercises consisted of doing a timetable of my daily week activities. This timetable then was converted to a pie graph using the average hours of my activities and a graph showing my social activity. This task can be seen below:

This workshop activity I think was a good way to refresh my skills in Microsoft Word and Excel as for I am very knowledgeable in using these two Microsoft applications. So I thought this was a good way to refresh my skills.