ICT-LAb (4) .Docx Zoya Zaib COSC321101094
ICT-LAb (4) .Docx Zoya Zaib COSC321101094
Lab-04
4.1. OBJECTIVE
Mathematical Notation
AutoRecovery Information
Using the Clipboard
Entering Symbols
Creating Hyperlinks
Macros
Tables
Water Marks
To ensure against data loss owing to computer and power failures, Office saves files on its own
every ten minutes. These files are saved in an Auto recovery file.
If we want the program to save files more or less frequently, you can change the Auto recovery
setting.
Follow these steps to tell office how often to save data in an Autorecovery file:
1. On the File tab, choose options.
2. Select the Save category
3. Enter the Minutes setting in the Save Autorecover information entry box.
4. Click ok.
The clipboard holds the last 24 items that you cut or copied. You can open the clipboard and
view the last 24 items you cut or copied to the clipboard.
To open the clipboard, go to Home tab and click the clipboard group button.
We can enter any symbol or foreign character by way of this dialog box. Click where you want
to enter the symbol and follow these steps:
a. On the insert tab, click the Symbols button.
b. If you want to insert any Symbol, we can choose the Webdings or Webdings 1, 2, 3 in the
Font drop down list.
a. The Webdings font offer all kinds of weird symbols
c. Select the symbol and press insert.
A hyperlink is an electronic shortcut from one place to another. We can use a hyperlink to
connect to Email id’s, webpages, other documents or another place within the same document.
To insert a hyperlink follow the steps:
a. Select the text that you want to form a hyperlink
b. On the Insert tab, click the hyperlink button or press CTRL + K.
c. Under Link to, select, either Existing document or web page, Place within the
same document, Email Address etc.
d. Click Ok to insert Hyper link.
4.7. Macros
Macro is a saved sequence of commands or keyboard strokes that can be stored and then recalled
with a single command or keyboard stroke. To form a new macro do as:
1. In the View Tab, in Macros group> click on Record Macro > Give your macro a Name
and press keyboard option.
2. Give a keyboard shortcut to your macro, like CTRL + SHIFT + R , then press Assign
button > ok button.
3. A macro is now recording. After you have done your work stop the macro recording.
4. Press the keyboard short cut key you specified , to check if your macro is working.
4.8. Tables
A faint mark can be added to the background of a word document, to ensure copyright. To add a
water mark, go to Page Layout, in the Page Background use Watermark option.
For the document “Founder of Pakistan – Quaid e Azam”, create header with the following
information:
KFUEIT University Dept of CS / IT
Format the header to be Arial font type, black color, size is 12 and bold face.
4.10.4. LAB TASK 4
For the same document, create Footer with your name and section number on the right and insert
the date on the left. Use the same font attributes used in the header.
Create a new document with the same header and footer as in Task 3 and 4. The page should
contain the following data:
Title centered across the page with Times New Roman font type, black color, size is 14,
underlined and bold face. As:
Mathematical Report
b. Table with the following information and format:
Data Table
Table 1
c. Page two should list some mathematical formulas, use bullets to separate the formulas and format
the paragraph to 1.5 lines spacing, as shown below:
Þ The distance between two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) is
Þ The midpoint of the line segment joining the points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) is
4.10.6. LAB TASK 6
Insert a cover page for your report showing the report title and your name. Make sure that no
page number appears at the cover page.
4.10.7. LAB TASK 7:
Use spelling and grammar checking tool to make sure you do not have any spelling mistake.