Week 2

In today’s lecture, we covered a range of topics. These included; the different Microsoft applications available, such as Excel, Word, Database and PowerPoint. We looked at the different Internet browsers, such as, Firefox, Netscape (AOL), Internet Explorer and Safari.

Once we had covered the basics, we then learnt about the common computer tasks for example Word processing. This includes table formatting, editing spreadsheets viewing PDFS and emailing.

In the tutorial today we were given a few different tasks to complete. These included editing a written piece about computers in Microsoft word. Creating a table in excel, about how we send our day. We did this by creating a few formulas eg. =Sum(a1:a2) this creates a formula adding up the to cells. Also we created a pie chart displaying the weekly average of what we spent our time doing.

My Weekly averages.



Overall, today’s lecture and tutorial has touched on the different Microsoft applications available, some common computer tasks and has shown me the new Vista program. As I have never used this I had to spend a bit of time playing around figuring out where things were.