EMPOWERMENT

TECHNOLOGIES

LESSON 4:

DEVELOPING ICT CONTENT

FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

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WENDELYN M. ALO
 OBJECTIVES
At the end of the 2-weeks period, student will be
able to:
Determine what are some of the productivity tools
with advanced techniques.
Independently apply advanced productivity tools to
create or develop ICT content for use in specific
professional tracks.

Appreciate the importance of productivity tools to

create or develop ICT content for use in specific
professional tracks.

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CHALLENGE QUESTIONS!

What was your

earliest memory of
productivity tools?

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 Three basic functions
of digital tools
Generally combined to support decisions
in:
BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
AND IN COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS.

Note: These 3 basic tools supports:

 WRITING
NUMERACY
PRESENTATION SKILLS.
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The prescribed tools and techniques are listed below in the
context of situational use-cases along with the respective
resources:

MAIL MERGE AND LABEL GENERATION

CUSTOM ANIMATIONS AND TIMING

HYPERLINKING IN PRESENTATIONS

INTEGRATING IMAGES AND EXTERNAL MATERIAL IN

WORD PROCESSORS

EMBEDDED FILES AND DATA

ADVANCED AND COMPLEX FORMULAS; AND

COMPUTATIONS

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MAIL MERGE AND LABEL GENERATION

WHAT IS
AN E-MAIL?
BACK

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ALO
 E-MAIL

Is short for electronic mail.

similar to a letter, it is sent
via the internet to a
recipient.
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 MAIL MERGE

Is used to create multiple

documents at once.
Three documents involved in the process:
Your main document
Data source
Merged document

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 ACTIVITY(Mail Merge)
Step 1. Open Microsoft excel application
in your computer.

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ALO
Here are some tips to prepare your data for a
mail merge. Make sure:
Column names in your spreadsheet match the field
names you want to insert in your mail merge. For an
example, to address readers by their first name in
your document. Separate columns for first and last
name.

All data to be merged is present in the first sheet of

your spreadsheet.

Data entries with percentages, currencies, and postal

code are correctly formatted in the spreadsheet so
that word can properly read their values.

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Here are some tips to prepare your data for a
mail merge. Make sure:

The EXCEL spreadsheet to be used in the mail

merge is stored on your local machine.

Changes or additions to your spreadsheet are

completed before it’s connected to your mail merge
document in Word.

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ACTIVITY(Mail Merge-excel)
Step 2. Create an excel document w/c contain the
following contents the ff. details. Create a header for
the sheet.
• Title
• First name
• Last name
• Address
• City
• Grade
Level
• Section
• Age
• Phone no.
• Email

You need to acquire the information of your 15 classmates record data and
save as “Data.xlsx“.
ACTIVITY(Mail Merge-word)
Step 3. Create a WORD document and select your template.
Save the file as “yourLastName-Mailmerge.docx“. You can
change the template color.
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