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Computer Studies SG Grade 12 - 2000

Last updated 31 July 2000

Word processing examination - Creation of a book - 44 marks - Time 40 minutes

Practise this at home many times. Do the exam in class time at school. Open the program MSWord. Open the file storage.doc from the Shared H drive CSSG folder. Save the document in your own Personal folder as yourinitialstore.doc, for example, Pam Miller would store her file as PMstore.doc Only do what is required to the document. Do the work in the order given. If you have a problem you may ask for help but each time five marks will be deducted.

Your name: ...................................

InstructionMarkMark
Set all the text to point size 12, unless otherwise instructed
1

Set all the text to the style Arial
1

Set the margins to 2 cm top, bottom, right and left
1

3

Title page
Insert the following. Complete in every respect to get any mark.
Title - ' Storage media ' - point size 24, centre horizontally, bold, middle of page
1

Authors - ' M. Meyer and R. Baber ' - point size 20, centre horizontally, bold, below title
1

Publisher - ' Macmillan ' - point size 16, centre horizontally, bold, bottom of page
1

Place of publication - ' Indianapolis ' - point size 14, centre horizontally and bold, below publisher
1

Date of publication - ' 1998 ' - point size 12, centre horizontally and bold, below place of publication
1

Watermark - computer.jpg found on Shared H drive CSSG folder
only on title page,
centred horizontally.
1
1
1

8

Add a page break. Leave line spaces. Add another page break. In this area do the Table of contents later.

Note the following headings. Give them each these headings so they can get the 'correct' style for use in the Table of Contents
1 Traditional storage--Magnetic tape
1 Today's preferred storage--Magnetic disk
2 Floppy disks and Disk drives
2 Hard disks
2 Hard disk interfaces (HDI)
1 The storage media of the future--Optical disk

Instruction
Mark
Mark
Page numbering
Insert page numbers on all pages,
beginning from the second page.
1
1

2

Footer
Must appear on all pages except the first page.
1

Remove the footer with the words
Information from 1. Meyer, M. and Baber, R. Computers today and tomorrow. CD-ROM. Indianapolis: Macmillan, 1998. and add your First name and Surname
1

point size 8
1

italics
1

4

Bullets
In the section on Hard disks, paragraph beginning 'Why do hard disks ... ' bullet the three points with the stiffie disk wingding,
making sure that each point has a hanging indent.
1
1

2

Illustration
Insert any suitable illustration made by YOU,
near the content which it illustrates,
one line space before the illustration,
centred on the page,
caption under each illustration,
wording in the caption bold,
wording in the caption centred under the illustration,
one line space after the caption.
1
1

Minus 1 for each error
2

Columns
Section on Floppy disks and Disk drives
First two paragraphs must be formatted in columns
2 cm spacing between each
Heading (bold) ' Floppy disk ' above that section
Heading (bold) ' Disk drives ' above that section
1
1
1
1

4

Table
Just before the section on Hard disks, find text which should be put into a 3 column 3 row table with the caption ' Amount of Data That Can be stored on a floppy disk '
centred on the page
column headings shaded
text in the table column headings bold
text in the table column headings centred
columns of the table just wide enough
text in the body of the table left aligned
table have a border
grid lines of the table highlighted in the same way as the border
caption under the table in bold
caption under the table centred
caption under the table in sentence case
1
1

Minus 1 for each error
2

Table of contents
Insert a Table of contents, after the title page, with correct page numbers
on a separate page
1

all text sentence case
1

all text Arial
1

having
1 Traditional storage--Magnetic tape
1 Today's preferred storage--Magnetic disk
2 Floppy disks and Disk drives
2 Hard disks
2 Hard disk interfaces (HDI)
1 The storage media of the future--Optical disk
in your Table of contents
1
1
1
1
1
1

9

Index
The following words must be indexed:
cluster
formating
sector
sequential access
1
1
1
1

The index must be found on a new page
at the end of the body text
font type Arial
point size 12
1
1
1
1

8

Total
44

Print, staple together and submit.


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