DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS

(ODIT I, ODCS I, ODPLMI, ODBMI, ODAI, ODFBI, ODBMC I, ODIRM I, ODMM

I, ODLIS I, 2023/2024)

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

PRACTICAL GROUP ASSIGNMENT

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

 This is a group assignment that carries 15 Marks of your total coursework.

 The group should not exceed 15 members.
 This work will be presented in a class session.
 You must prepare a word document for submission and a PowerPoint
document for presentation.
 This group work will be presented during the practical session. 3. All group
members are required to participate on the assignment. Failure to attend the
presentation session will lead to 0 score of an absentee
 The deadline for this work is January 8th 2024
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MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

● Tables

● Columns and column breaks

● Charts

● Page breaks

● Section breaks

● Page numbers

● Header and footers

● Bullets and numbers

● Paragraph alignment ( indentation and line spacing,)

● Creating cover page

● Automatic table of contents

● Bibliography and references

A: WORKING WITH TABLES

1. Open a new blank document in Ms Word.

2. Create a table of 6 columns and 5 rows
3. Name the columns as , Monday, Tuesday , Wednesday, Thursday , Friday
and Saturday
4. Add your weekly activities on the first column start at the second row. Select the
activities on each day By ticking on the cell.
5. Delete the Saturday column.
6. Insert a column to the right of the Friday column and name it as Sunday.
7. Change the table style to a medium shading Accent 2 style: Style names appear
when you hover over them.
8. Select the entire table. In the Borders drop-down menu, choose All Borders.

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 9. Select the first row and change the cell alignment to Align Center.
10. Save your work as table activity.

B: WORKING WITH COLUMNS

You have been provided with the following paragraph, copy it and paste it on a new word
document, then do the following
1. Select all the text.
2. Format the selected text into two columns.
3. Add a column break. Add a column break before the line; “Typically, IT is used in the
context of business operations.”
4. Save your work as a column activity.

 THIS IS THE PARAGRAPH TO WORK ON

What is information technology?

Information technology (IT) is the use of any computers, storage, networking and other physical
devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange all forms of
electronic data. Typically, IT is used in the context of business operations, as opposed to
technology used for personal or entertainment purposes. The commercial use of IT encompasses
both computer technology and telecommunications.

C: WORKING WITH CHARTS

1. Open a new blank document from Microsoft word 2013/2016/2019.

2. Insert a 3-D cylinder column chart into your Word document.
3. In the Excel sheet change the information as follows; Columns Jan, Feb and
Mar. and the row categories as Furniture, electronics, fittings and stationeries.
Change the chart title to Monthly Sales.
4. Change the chart type to Stacked Column.
5. Use the Quick Layout drop-down menu to change to Layout 3.
6. Use the Add Chart Element drop-down menu to add a Primary Vertical and
horizontal Axis Title.
7. Switch the Row/Column data.
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 8. Save your as Chart activity.

D: PAGE BREAK ACTIVITY

Sample Document
to work on Automatic table of content (1).d
1. Open an existing Word document, use the following linked document
2. Insert a page break in the document, insert a page break to move the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT section to the next page.
3. Insert a section break in the document. If you're using the above document, insert a Next
Page section break to move the CHAPTER ONE section to the next page. Try changing
the formatting of paragraphs in that section.
4. Insert headers above the document, Name It field Report, and add a footer text below
and name it Created by your Name.
5. Insert automatic date and time
6. Insert page numbers from page one to four in the format of roman numbers, do not
include the cover page.
7. From the fifth page insert page number using numeric number.
8. Add Borders to the cover page with a double line and green color.
9. Align the paragraphs as justified with 1.5 line spacing
10. Change the margins of page 2 to Normal size and landscape orientation
11. Add bullets and numbers under the Strategic direction heading.
12. Insert the automatic table of content after the cover page.
13. Use a Shaded style automatic table of content in all your entire documents.
● Format the headings level from heading level 1 which will be represented by the
chapters.
● Format heading level 2 will be represented with all text with subsections.
● Format all other bolded texts with heading level 3.
14. Save changes to your document.
15. Prepare a PDF document from the word document.

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