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ICT Paper 2 Notes

The document provides instructions for tasks related to taking an ICT exam, including setting up folders, creating evidence documents, taking screenshots, formatting documents and tables, creating presentations, working with databases and queries, and generating reports. Key steps include changing the region setting, saving files in the required format and folder, setting up styles, page layout and margins, adding images and tables, and inserting headers and footers.

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ICT Paper 2 Notes

The document provides instructions for tasks related to taking an ICT exam, including setting up folders, creating evidence documents, taking screenshots, formatting documents and tables, creating presentations, working with databases and queries, and generating reports. Key steps include changing the region setting, saving files in the required format and folder, setting up styles, page layout and margins, adding images and tables, and inserting headers and footers.

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ICT Paper 2 notes

Things to do when you get there


- They will make you enter for 30-45 minutes prior and you are not allowed to touch anything on the
laptop.
- During wai ng me, check your keyboard and mouse but don’t do anything on the screen.
- You will be asked to create a folder and only follow their instruc ons to do so.
- Everything you need will be given on your computer.
- As soon as the exam starts, change your UK Region se ng.
o Search  Control Panel  View by: Category  Clock & Region  Region  Format English
(United Kingdom)

Create folder
- Select the required files and put them into a folder with required name
Tips:
Make sure to copy paste your whole folder in case you do anything wrong on your original folder.
Do your work on original folder and keep the copied folder as a sub.
REMEMBER TO DELETE THE COPIED FOLDER BEFORE THE EXAM ENDS.

Evidence Document
- Open MS word
- Create new file
- Double click the header
- Header & Footer tab  Header bu on  Blank three columns
- Header & Footer tab  Quick Parts  Field  page, filename, filepath, etc.
- Enter your name, centre number and candidate number
- Save the file as EVIDENCE followed by your candidate number

Screenshot
- Ctrl + Shi + S
- Window + PrtSc
- Right click tle bar  More  frame width, frame height, resolu on, etc.

Document
Save the document
- File tab  Save As  Browse  choose the folder  file name as required  .docx

Page Setup – Layout Tab


- Size bu on  A4
- Orienta on bu on  portrait, landscape
- Margin bu on  custom margin
- Gu er: Page Setup  Margins  Gu er posi on
- Columns bu on  More Columns  no. of column, spacing, whole document, this point forward,
selected text
- Window and orphan remove: Break bu on  column break, page break
Styles
- Create new style:
o Default/normal paragraph style  Styles based on:  Normal
o Style name  Name
o Font style  serif: Times New Roman, sans-serif: Arial
o Format bu on  Paragraph bu on  Line spacing, before, a er, Indenta on before, a er,
etc
o Format bu on  Font bu on  All Caps, superscript, subscript, strikethrough, etc.
o Format bu on  Numbering bu on  bullets

Import image
- copy the image file and paste
- text wrap:  square
- Picture Format tab  Size group  Crop, Width, Height
- Picture Format tab  Arrange group   rotate, flip, etc.

Tables and Lists


- Home tab Paragraph

o Indenta on:

o Line spacing:
- Cell shading: Table Design tab  Shading bu on
- Border colour: Table Design tab  Border painter bu on
- Border style: Table Design tab  Border bu on  borders and shading bu on
- Insert column and rows: right click table  Insert bu on
- Merge: Select cells  Merge bu on
- Table tools  Layout tab

o
- Text border  Home Tab  Paragraph group 
- Text background filling/shading  Home Tab  Paragraph group 
Tips:
There is 6 points space a er the table  use “6 points before paragraph” to the line directly under the
table.
Presenta on

- Open MS powerpoint  Open  Browse   select file


- View tab  Slide master  only edit on the very first page of the slide master
- Insert tab  Header & Footer bu on  Slide number, Footer  Apply to all
- Home tab  Slides group  Layout bu on  tle slide, tle and content, two content, etc.
- a tle slide layout is applied with no bullets  change to tle slide layout
- Presenter’s note: bo om of the MS power point so ware 
- Adding link: Insert tab  Link bu on  Email address, exis ng file or web page, etc.

- Prin ng presenter’s note  print bu on 


- Adding sound file: Transi on tab  Timing group

- Bullet Anima on:


o Click on the list  Go to Anima on Tab
- Slide show loop: Slide show tab  Set up Slide Show bu on  Loop con nuously un l Esp  All
(or) From (choose the number of slides)

Database
Opening file
- External data tab  New data source  From File  Text File  Delimited  Comma  First Row
contains fieldname
- Check data type  Short Text, Long Integer, Currency, Date with me, Yes/No, Double
- Choose my own primary key

Changing Data types


- Right Click  Design View  Change in Format and Decimal Places
- Date and Time:

- Boolean: Lookup  Textbox

Table Rela onship


- Database Tools  Rela onships  Add Table  Rela onship type: One-to-many  Create

Form
- Create tab  Form Wizard
- Columnar or Tabular
- Modify form’s design
- Form header: Format Tab  bold and black
- Details: Arrange Tab  Size/Space, Align
- Labels: Right-aligned
- Text boxes: Le -aligned

- Combo boxes:
o I will type in the values I want
o Type under the same column
o Store that value in this field:
o Resource type: Table/Query, Value list

- Op on Group/Radio bu on:
o Enter values in the same column
o No, I don’t want a default.
o Store as 1,2,3
o Store the value in this field

- Bu on
- Before adding new record : keep note of the exis ng numbers of record

Query
- Create tab  Query Design
- Select the fields

-
- Adding new calcula on fields: NewFieldName: [Exis ngFieldName] operator [Exis ngFieldName]

Report
- Create tab  Report wizard
- Sort the field names in order
1. Delete everything in page footer
2. Bold, Black your page header
3. Bold, Black your field names
4. Page size: A4
5. Right click layout view  arrange the fields in order
6. Calcula on: Report Design tab  Groupings & Totals group  Totals
a. =Sum([field name])
b. =Avg([field name])
c. =Max([field name])
d. =Min([field name])
e. =Count([field name]) → count value
f. =Count(*) → count records

Label
- Create tab  Reports group  Labels
- Avery J8165 → 8 records per page
- Avery J8166 → 6 records per page
- Arial, 12 pt font, text color: black

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