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Word Processing Assignment Guide

This document contains 25 multiple choice questions about features and functions in word processing. It asks about advantages of word processors over typewriters, differences between open and new and save and save as options, uses of sections and section breaks, how footnotes are used and their similarities and differences to footers, ways to combine documents, select paragraphs, define cells in tables, and reasons why spreadsheets may be preferred to tables. It also covers uses of columns in journalism, similarities and differences of page and column breaks, differences between tables and columns, what double line spacing means, hanging indents, benefits of the format painter, steps to format subscript text, advantages and disadvantages of replace all, documents produced by mail merge, advantages of different file

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Word Processing Assignment Guide

This document contains 25 multiple choice questions about features and functions in word processing. It asks about advantages of word processors over typewriters, differences between open and new and save and save as options, uses of sections and section breaks, how footnotes are used and their similarities and differences to footers, ways to combine documents, select paragraphs, define cells in tables, and reasons why spreadsheets may be preferred to tables. It also covers uses of columns in journalism, similarities and differences of page and column breaks, differences between tables and columns, what double line spacing means, hanging indents, benefits of the format painter, steps to format subscript text, advantages and disadvantages of replace all, documents produced by mail merge, advantages of different file

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Name: _______________________________________

Due Date: 4

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Word Processing Assignment
Structured Questions

1. List three advantages of using a word processor rather than a typewriter.


2. Explain the difference between :
a. Open and New b. Save and Save as
3. What is a Section Break?
4. What is the difference between the continuous and the next page section break?
5. Give two situations where the use of sections would be appropriate.
6. Describe an example of how a footnote is used in a word processing document.
7. What are the similarities and differences between footers and footnotes?
8. Explain two ways of combining documents.
9. List two ways of selecting a paragraph.
10. Write a definition for the term cell as it applies to a table.
11. Give one reason why a spreadsheet may be preferred to a word processing table.
12. Describe one use made of word processing columns in journalism.
13. Give one similarity and one difference between a page break and a column break.
14. Explain the difference between a table and a column.
15. Explain what double line spacing means.
16. Explain the term hanging indent.
17. Describe the benefits of using the Format Painter.
18. List the steps which you would take to format a word so that it appears in subscript text.
19. Explain one advantage and one disadvantage of using the replace all option.
20. State two documents that can be produced with the mail merge feature.
21. Give one advantage of using different types of files as data sources.
22. Explain the purpose of the Ignore once and the Ignore All option when using the spell-checking feature
23. Explain two ways in which you can print several copies of a document.
24. Why would you want to use the option Save File as Type?
25. Identify two methods of switching between two Windows applications.

Prepared by: Mr. Thompson

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