Computer Basics

REPORT WRITING
1.Title page
Should be interesting,concise and informative.
2.Table of contents
3.Introduction
What is the report about?
Introduce topic being investigated
State objectives
4.Methods
Details procedure followed and how the work was carried out,
Should be in the passive tense.
5.Results
What did you find?
Tables and figures can be used here.
6.Discussion and conclusion
What do the results mean?
This is where you answer the questions raised in the introduction.
Give a brief conclusion on findings.
7.Rererences
Use Harvard system (author-date system)

10 Basic steps to word.

Having trouble with word? Here are a few tips to help with the basics.

1. To change size of your font Simple select the text you wish to change and go to the top left of the screen and scroll through the different font sizes and select which one you want.
2. To insert superscript to select the text and in the bottom right corner click the arrow to open the font dialogue box and tick super script and OK.
3. To Insert a footer or a header, go to insert select footer or header and select which style you need.
4. To put a smart art shape in you document, go to insert, select smart art and choose your smart art graphic and select ok.
5. To change the heading style, go to home and to the right of the header selections click change styles  and select style set  to get a drop menu of all the differ ant types of styles to choose from, this menu also lets you change the colour and fonts of you headings.
6. To insert a table of contents, firstly you need to allocate heading types throughout your document this is done simply be highlighting the text and selecting either Title, subtitle, heading 1,2,3,4... then go to references and select table of contents here you can choose your layout and then click insert table of contents, this will bring up a menu in which you can select how many headings you have chosen and which to display and the format you want it to be displayed in.
7. To make text sit beside a picture, select your picture and right click scroll down to text wrapping select which format suits and then move the picture around till you get the desired effect.
8. To insert a cover page, go to insert select cover page and choose your layout .
9. To Complete a spell check go to review and on the left hand side click the spelling and grammar icon and it will bring up a box listing through all you spelling and grammar mistakes.
10. To Upload a document to moodle, First the document must be saved to the computer in a known folder, then select upload document on the moodle site it should bring up an option to browse your computer for the file, click browse go to the folder your document is located in click the document and ok then click upload file.