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Lesson 4 - ICT Content

This document discusses productivity tools, mail merge, custom animation, LibreOffice applications, hyperlinks, and integrating images. It defines productivity tools as software used to create documents, presentations, databases, charts and graphs. It explains mail merge combines a mailing list with a main document to address individual recipients. Custom animation refers to displaying a series of pictures or frames to simulate movement. LibreOffice includes applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and formulas. Hyperlinks allow users to directly follow links by clicking. Integrating images in word processing allows making documents more presentable.
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Lesson 4 - ICT Content

This document discusses productivity tools, mail merge, custom animation, LibreOffice applications, hyperlinks, and integrating images. It defines productivity tools as software used to create documents, presentations, databases, charts and graphs. It explains mail merge combines a mailing list with a main document to address individual recipients. Custom animation refers to displaying a series of pictures or frames to simulate movement. LibreOffice includes applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and formulas. Hyperlinks allow users to directly follow links by clicking. Integrating images in word processing allows making documents more presentable.
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Lesson 4:

DEVELOPING ICT
CONTENT FOR SPECIFIC
PURPOSES
PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

It refers to the software that people use to create and


produce documents, presentations, databases, charts, and
graphs. Productivity tools helps you create professional
quality documents, presentation, graphics, and more.
Common productivity tools
 Microsoft Word
 Microsoft Excel
 Microsoft PowerPoint
 LibreOffice
Mail Merge
It is a Word’s way of generating mass mailings. It involves combining a list of
names and addresses to individually address to each person / receiver on the list.
You can use Mail Merge to create envelopes or address labels, as well as form
letters.
Mail Merged involved the following documents;
Main document – this document contains text and graphics. Example: body of
the letter.
Mailing list – this is your data source that is used to populate information in the
letter. It contains names and address of the recipients.
Merged document - this document the combination of the main document.
Custom Animation
Animation is a simulation of movement created by displaying a
series of pictures, or frames. Animation on computers is one of the chief
ingredients of multimedia presentations. There are many software
applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on a
computer monitor. One of this application software are presentation
software that you can use to create a slide show for your presentation.
Some of the popular software that are available online for free or for
LibreOffice, and MS-PowerPoint.
LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the
most versatile Free and Open Source office suite on the
market: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets),
Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and
flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).
HYPERLINK
A hyperlink or simply a link, is a reference data that the
reader can directly follow either by clicking or tapping.
Hyperlinks are found in nearly all Web pages, allowing users
to click their way from one page to another. In text hyperlinks
are often color blue and underlined. When you move the
cursor over a hyperlink, whether it is text, button or an image,
the arrow cursor should be change to a small hand pointing
to the link.
Integrating Images
In Microsoft word processing you can do a lot of things to make your
documents look good and presentable. One of its function is to integrate
image. Word processing refers to an application program for manipulating
text-based documents; the electronic equivalent of paper, pen, typewriter,
eraser, and most likely, dictionary and thesaurus. Word processors run the
scope from simple through complex, but all ease the tasks associated with
editing documents (deleting, inserting, rewording, and so on).

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