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The following topics will be on the final examination for the Computer Concepts course. However, you will have to know the material studied in the first part of the semester in order to succeed.
Graphics
- Autoshapes
- Adding basic graphics from files to Word
- Different graphic formats
- Copying, cutting, pasting, dragging and dropping
- Paint program
- Moving Paint images from from one document to another
- Moving part of a Paint image into Word
Word processing
- Copying and moving selections from within a document
- Writing reports, documents and letters
- Optional: Finding information in documents
- Optional: Replacing information in documents
- Optional: Indexing documents
- Optional: Automatic and manual search and replace
- Optional: Spelling and grammar
- Moving text: Drag and drop
- Optional: Format painter
- Business cards
- Basics of business labels
- Tables
- Header on each page
- Sorting
- Formatting tables
- Using a table to prepare two elements on the same line
- Forms with perfect lines
- Table Enter-Enter-Arrow up (why)?
- Lists - bulleted, numbering, multilevel
File management
- Inserting one document inside another
- Optional: Maintaining business records
- Locating documents
- Re-using documents from one client to another
- Renaming a document
PowerPoint presentations
- What is a presentation?
- How is it used?
- What makes a presentation become effective?
- How should you lay out a slide?
- What multimedia effects are available in PowerPoint?
- When and how do we use builds?
- What rules should we keep in mind when making a presentation?
Correcting mistakes
- Dealing with stupid mistakes
- Dealing with computer mistakes
Networks, networking, and the Internet
- Class network
- Searching for information on the Internet
- Searching by subject in Yahoo
Databases and spreadsheets
- Organized Word lists; secondary fields; ordering lists
- Word table
- Excel freeze panes
- Design: creating Word tables
- Sorting tables on several fields
- Formatting tables
- Tables as spreadsheets: Formulas and calculations
Excel spreadsheets
- Rows and columns
- Sum of any two cells in a third cell
- Adding rows
- Resizing columns
- Copy and paste
- Format painter
- Format cells
- Sorting
- Creating and inserting charts with data
- Freezing rows
You may want to do the optional extra credit project on Excel.
Computer ethics
- Buying vs. stealing software
- Sending viruses
Viruses
- What are viruses
- Why viruses exist
- Avoiding viruses
- Damage caused by viruses
- Some examples of viruses
- Eliminating or removing viruses
Print
- Print quality
- Which pages to print
- Using computer as a fax machine
Projects
Your final grade for the course will be based on our point system
Syllabus for the first half of the term
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