Assignment 1

Q1. What is the importance of body language or paralanguage for presentation?

Ans. Body language comprises gesture, stance, and facial expression. More than half of your impact as
a speaker depends upon your body language. When you are presenting positive body language
becomes an essential tool in expressing your emotions, and connect with your listeners. It also
helps your listeners focus more intently on you and what you're saying. The tricky thing about
body language is that you are usually unaware of the messages you're conveying. Effective body
language supports the message and projects a strong image of the presenter. Audiences
respond best to presenters whose bodies are alive and energetic. Audiences appreciate
movement when it is meaningful and supportive of the message. The most effective movements
are ones that reflect the presenter's personal involvement in the message. One should always
keep the following points in mind.

1. Gesture: - Use hands to emphasize a point, to express emotion, to release tension, and to
engage your audience

2. Stance: - A balanced stance with weight even but slightly forward tends to say that the
speaker is engaged with the audience.

3. Facial expression: - The movements of your eyes, mouth, and facial muscles can build a
connection with your audience.

Q2. How visual aids and graphical elements play vital role in power point presentation?

Ans. Visual aids are worth including in presentations because they can help in explaining information
more coherently which makes presenting easier and learning easier for the audience. They also help
add variety to the presentation thus making it more interesting for the audience. If the audience
understands what you're saying and they are more engaged, they're more likely to be persuaded by
you. Your visual strategy can encompass one or more of the following goals.

 Evoking Feelings: Through choice of color, typeface and other visual attributes, the purpose of
your visual is to draw on the emotions. Visual strategies that correspond to this goal are
called decoratives.
 Evoke Action: Another goal of presentation graphics can be to move an audience to take action.
This is often done through the build of a bulleted list that will influence the audience to commit.
These visual strategies are known as indicatives.
 Promote Understanding: A third reason for using visuals is to promote understanding through
informative visuals like charts, graphs, diagrams and tables that express a concept. Visual strategies
that promote understanding are considered informatives.

Q3. What is Microsoft Excel and how many data formats are available in Excel
sheet.
Ans. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It
features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic
for Applications (VBA). Excel forms part of the Microsoft Office suite of software. Microsoft Excel has the
basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-
named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations. It has a battery of supplied
functions to answer statistical, engineering, and financial needs. In addition, it can display data as line
graphs, histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display.

There are 11 types of Data Formats available in Excel.

They are:-

 Number :- It is used generally for the display of numbers.

 Currency: - This is used generally for monetary formats.
 Accounting: - They line-up the currency symbols & decimal points in a column.
 Date:- They display date & time serial numbers as data values.
 Time:- Time formats display date & time serial numbers as date values.
 Percentage:- They multiply 100 with the cell value & display it in the form of %.
 Fraction:- They display the cell values in the form of a fraction.
 Scientific:- The cell values are displayed scientifically.
 Text:- Text format cells are treated as text even when the number is in the cell, the cell is
displayed exactly as entered.
 Special:- They are useful for tracking list & database values.
 Custom:- Type the number format code, using one of the existing codes as a starting point.

Q5. What are the features of Microsoft word?

Ans. Home tab - This has options like font colour, font size, font style, alignment, bullets, line spacing,
etc. All the basic elements which one may need to edit their document is available under the Home
option.

 Insert tab - Tables, shapes, images, charts, graphs, header, footer, page number, etc. can all be
entered in the document. They are included in the “Insert” category.

 Design tab - The template or the design in which you want your document to be created can be
selected under the Design tab. Choosing an appropriate tab will enhance the appearance of your
document.

 Page Layout tab - Under the Page Layout tab comes options like margins, orientation, columns,
lines, indentation, spacing, etc. 

 References tab - This tab is the most useful for those who are creating a thesis or writing books
or lengthy documents. Options like citation, footnote, table of contents, caption, bibliography,
etc. can be found under this tab.

 Review tab - Spell check, grammar, Thesaurus, word count, language, translation, comments,
etc. can all be tracked under the review tab. This acts as an advantage for those who get their
documents reviewed on MS Word.
Apart from all the above-mentioned features, the page can be set in different views and layouts, which
can be added and optimised using the View tab on the Word document. Margins and scales are also
available for the benefit of the users. 
 Q.6.How imperfections and disapprovals can help us for our betterment.

Ans. Imperfection in all forms and everywhere shows honesty, hope, and genuineness – better than

greatness ever can. Imperfection inspires because it doesn’t force us but lets us simply be. The pursuit of

greatness makes us delusional. We lie about our potential. We refuse to accept that we’re ordinary. The

confidence that comes with such pursuit is brittle – it breaks someday or the other.

That’s when our imperfections rescue us

Our incompleteness tells us that we can achieve more. Our weaknesses show us that there’s still space

for betterment. Impermanency of life signals that we can always move on.

The truths that we run away from are what we need, and they come disguised as flaws sometimes.