Week 2: Office Applications.

LECTURE:

In today's lecture we listed all the Microsoft applications and all the Internet browsers that we could think of.
Some Microsoft applications would be:
*Word
*Excel
*Publisher
*Access
*Front Page
*Mind sweeper

Some Internet browsers would be:
*Internet Explorer
*Mozilla FireFox
*Netscape

Some common PC tasks would be using Word, Internet browsing/surfing, e-mailing, viewing PDF's, listening/watching audio and video, viewing and editing files.

TUTORIAL:

In today's tutorial we did two exercises. Firstly, we practised how to use Word and then practised an activity in Excel.

Screenshots of my Word exercise:





Screenshots of my Excel exercise:







READING 1: "Using MS Word for APA Tasks"

This reading was extremely helpful! It tells you step by step how to use MS Word and how to edit or change everything you can possibly think of! It is very useful as an undergraduate as I will be producing all my assignments or reports in this format and I will save a lot of time if I know how to use it effectively and as quick as possible.

READING 2: "Graphic File Formats"

This reading tells us all about the different types of images you can get.
Bitmap (.bmp) is the standard Windows bitmap image format for PC's. e.g. a wallpaper would be saved as a .bmp
CompuServe (.gif) images contains a maximum 256 colours, used in HTML images and images on the WWW and other online services. It can also support animation or moving frames.
Joint Photographic Experts Group - or Jpeg (.jpg) images are commonly used to display images on the Internet such as when we store our images on photo bucket or image shack.
The Tagged-Image File Format (.tiff) is used to exchange files between applications and computer platforms so it can be read by both Macintosh and Windows computers.
Photo Shop Document (.psd ~ .psp ~ .spp) includes all flat images.

I enjoyed this reading and I now know a bit more about the different types of images you can save one as and why they are saved that way.