week 2

Lecture
In my week two lecture i learnt about Microsoft and Microsoft's applications:
word
Microsoft office
excel
PowerPoint
publisher
outlook
access

I also learn about Internet explorer's and search engines
Google
Yahoo
FireFox
Safari
explore
Netscape
AOL

Tutorial
In my tutorial i learnt:

how to do print screens to take picture of the screen pages on your computer.
by first selecting the print screen you want then pressing the PrtSc button on my computer then going into paint and pressing Ctrl and V at the same time this will bring up you pic in paint where you can then save it as jpeg on my computer or thumb drive.

What i should put in my project and the order they should go e.g.
cover page, header footer, page break, page number, table of content, table of fig,line spacing.



I also learnt how to use excel i made a spreed sheet table of the hours i spend doing particular activity's e.g sleeping, eating,travelling,in lectures,tutorials,lib/study,eating,social,exercise,

I also learnt some useful shortcuts e.g.
ctrl delete = delete words in front of cursor point
ctrl backspace = delete words behind cursor point
ctrl Z = undo
ctrl Y= redo
ctrl and arrow right or left to jump words
ctrl home = go to start of doc
ctrl end =go to end of doc
ctrl shift= word by word highlight words
ctrl A= select whole doc
ctrl F= finding key

and I learnt how to save documents so they can work on vista 2007 and the 98 to 2003 computer configurations

Readings

Reading summary "using MS word for APA tasks"

This reading is all about how to use Microsoft Word 2000 for Windows XL. The paper gives you general tips about how to use the following:

document comments
show/ hide
typeface
margins and alignment
alphabetize reference lists
keeping headings with text
indents
page headers and numbers
line spacing
regular spacing
irregular spacing
dot leaders in contents list
customize the tool bar
use document comments

This paper is not useful to me because i have windows vista at home making this paper irrelevant to me.

Reading summary two "graphic file formate"

This paper is about Adobe Photoshop, a program that is designed to edit images. The paper discusses Graphic Formats which is the types of formats pictures can be used in.the paper tells us about the following formats:

Bitmap (.bmp)
Compuserve(.gif)
Joint Photographic Experts group- otherwise known as (JPEG)
The tagged image file format (.tiff)
Photoshop document (.psd)

In conclusion this week I learnt some invaluable information that will undoubtedly save me time and effort i am very glad i choose to do this course if only i know how to do this stuff in high school i would have taken an hour to do the final copy of my assignments instead of all weekend ow well :0