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Compulsory Chapter 6

Word Processing (Exercise 1)

  1. Which of the following is the most primitive text-based file format readable by most application software?
  1. DOC
  2. PDF
  3. RTF
  4. TXT
  1. What are the names of file extensions X and Y in the following table?

File extension / Description
X / File format for cross-platform document interchange designed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
Y / File format for Microsoft Word

X Y

  1. PDF HTML
  2. RTF HTML
  3. PDF DOC
  4. RTF DOC
  1. What is the page orientation of the followingdocument?

A Presentation on
Word Processing
By Chan Tai Man
  1. Landscape
  2. Portrait
  3. Margin
  4. Watermark
  1. Study the following text carefully.

Introduction to Word Processors
A word processor, also known as word processing software, is the mostwidely used type of application software. It allows you to create, edit, format,save and print documents such as letters, resumes, reports, newsletters andmailing labels.

What are the types of justifications of the title and the paragraph respectively in the above text?

Title Paragraph

  1. Centre-alignedFull-justified
  2. Centre-alignedLeft-aligned
  3. Full-justifiedFull-justified
  4. Full-justifiedLeft-aligned
  1. Which text style cannot be found in the following text?

Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.orgWriter and WordPerfect areexamples of word processors.
  1. Character shading
  2. Bold
  3. Underline
  4. Italic
  1. Name the features X and Y in the following document.

XY

  1. Left margin Indentation
  2. IndentationLeft margin
  3. Document edgeLeft margin
  4. Document edgeIndentation
  1. Read the following formula.

E = mc2

Which of the following text stylescannot be found in the above text?

  1. Superscript
  2. Character Border
  3. Italic
  4. Subscript
  1. Which of the following may be affected when the font size is increased?

(1)The number of characters in each line

(2)The number of lines on each page

(3)The number of pages of the document

(4)The number of characters in the document

  1. (1), (2) and (3) only
  2. (1), (2) and (3) only
  3. (2), (3) and (4) only
  4. (1), (2), (3) and (4)
  1. The following object is produced by Microsoft Word.

Which of the following tools can produce the object above?

  1. Clip Art
  2. WordArt
  3. The ‘Shapes’ button in the ‘Illustrations’ group
  4. None of the above
  1. Which of the following statements is not correct?
  1. A table of contents is usually a list of titles and page numbers of each chapter or section.
  2. An index is anunsorted list of keywords and their associated meanings.
  3. Footnotes are short text messages that are used to comment on or cite a source of the main text in a document.
  4. A spelling and grammar checker in a word processor checks the spelling of words and the grammatical mistakes in a document.

  1. What is the name of the feature shown at the bottom of the document below?

  1. Header
  2. Footer
  3. Footnote
  4. Index
  1. Which of the following features of a word processor provides a list of synonyms for the word selected in the document?
  1. Spell and grammar checker
  2. AutoCorrect
  3. Thesaurus
  4. Mail merge

Answers

  1. D
  2. C
  3. A
  4. B
  5. A
  6. A
  7. D
  8. A

Explanation

Note that the number of characters in a document will not be affected by the font size. The increase of the font size will decrease the number of characters in a line and the number of lines of a page, which will decrease the number of characters on a page. This will then increase the number of pages in a document.

  1. B
  2. B

Explanation

An index is a sorted list of keywords and their associated page numbers.

  1. C
  2. C

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