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).