The skills acquired in ICTICT203 Operate Application Software Packages will enable you to use three software packages, including a word-processing and spreadsheet package. It applies to individuals who use different applications to produce diverse documents.

At the completion of this course you should be able to:

• identify and set up elements that constitute safe and healthy computer usage
• work with the basic features of Word
• create a new document
• work with a document
• use a range of font formatting techniques
• format paragraphs
• work effectively with features that affect the page layout of your document
• learn how to work with section breaks
• apply styles and themes
• insert headers and footers into a document
• save various kinds of documents
• print a document
• create new workbooks in Microsoft Excel
• understand, create and work with formulas and functions
• use font formatting techniques
• align the contents of cells in a number of ways
• insert pictures or create charts in a workbook
• print data from workbooks
• customise Microsoft Excel workbooks
• work with the basic features of PowerPoint
• work with presentations
• create a new presentation
• work with the various slide layouts
• insert text into a slide and apply basic formatting
• insert and edit images
• create animations in a presentation
• navigate a slide show in PowerPoint
• use a range of printing techniques
• save and share your presentations in other formats