Study Sheet Prior to Test - Word and Excel
I. Microsoft Word
General
1. Screen and Toolbars - name of, recognizing tools
2. Menus - locating functions
3. Download - Be able to download the practice files.
Editing
1. How to Select text
2. How to cut/copy and paste,
3. How to find and replace
4. How do you check spelling and grammar?
5. What's the clipboard?
6. Find a synonym for a word
7. Check spelling and grammar at once
Formating
1. Putting text in with different fonts and font sizes
2. Font effects or styles - Bold, Italics, Underline
3. Fonts types: Serif (feet - body text), Sans Serif (no feet - headings)
4. How do you Indent a paragraph of text? (left and right, different types)
5. Tabs - how to add, remove, types
6. Alignment - how to (meaning left, center, right, justify)
7. Page margins - how to set
8. Font effects (bold, italics, underline) and Font styles
9. Bullets and Numbering
10. Using WordArt & inserting Pictures
11. How to view and change the header or footer
12. How to insert a page break, column break, or continuous break.
13. How to format a section with 2 or more columns.
Tables (only if included in the class):
1. A cell is the intersection of rows and columns
2. How to insert a table in a document
II. Microsoft Excel
1. Parts of the screen - Name Box, Formula Bar, Status Bar, Active Cell
2. Toolbars - you need to recognize icons
3. Cell = intersection of row and column
4. Types of data - labels(text), values(numbers), formulas(computations)
5. Can do What-if analysis with cell
6. Workbook can have multiple worksheets (see tabs at bottom of sheet)
7. How to move around in a worksheet
8. How to change the name of a worksheet and a workbook
9. How to print a worksheet with the formulas showing.
Editing, Formulas and Functions
1. Entering data in cells
2. How to edit data in cells
3. What is a Range - how to select it and write it down.
4. How to cut and paste (text, numbers, and formulas)
5. Formulas - how to write
6. Functions - SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, PMT, TODAY() - several ways to enter.
7. Absolute and relative addressing - how to write, how to use in a spreadsheet
8. How to Insert special data into cells, such as MSN Stock Market Data using the "Import External Data" capability.
9. Enter a formula using the keyboard
10. Enter formulas using Point mode
Formatting
1. Using different fonts, font sizes for a cell
2. Formatting for a range of cells or a whole row or column
3. Inserting and deleting rows and columns
4. Make cells different background colors, patterns
5. Make the letters in a cell different colors.
5. Put a border around a group of cells or the whole page
6. How to use Spell checker
7. How to you use "Merge and Center" to center text over columns A through H.
8. Display and print the formulas version of a worksheet
Charts:
1. How to make (and resize to fit) simple charts.
2. How to print your data and it's chart.
Other - varies with semester:
1. Inserting specific functions into worksheet (PMT, SUM, MAX, MIN, IF...)
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