Microcomputer Applications

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Microcomputer Applications
CIT 1503 -- Fall 2005 www.clt.astate.edu/jseydel/m
is1503

• Getting Started with MS Word

Instructor John Seydel, Ph.D.
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Student Objectives

• Understand and apply storage volume concepts
• Become familiar with Word
• File manipulation
• Moving about
• Basic editing

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Administrative Stuff

• Today
• Questions about course, syllabus, assignments, .
  . .
• Quiz
• Brief discussion of computer concepts
• MS Word Projects 1 and 2 Lessons
• Tuesday complete Project 2 and start Project 3
• All Lessons
• Prepare for class by
• Reading through text sections
• Completing multiple choice sections
• Working through the Lessons

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Questions, Clarifications, etc.

• Syllabus
• Homework
• Missing email
• Work on exercises
• Course in general
• Posting work on the server
• Other . . . ?

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Some IT Concepts

• Data storage
• Includes document contents and program
  instructions
• Hierarchy
• Bit binary digit
• Byte essentially 1 character typically 8 bits
• Collections
• Processing (and data transfer) megabits, etc.
• Storage kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes
• Related processing speeds
• CPU
• Network

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Organization of the Textbook

• Note the layout
• Sections (e.g., Word, Excel, . . . )
• Chapters (i.e., Projects)
• Tutorials (i.e., Lessons)
• Chapter-end materials
• Summary, Concepts, Quiz, Discussion
• Skill Drills
• Challenges
• Discovery Zone
• Prep for class typically Lessons
• In class typically Challenges

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MS Word Project 1

• Orientation to the interface
• Learning the terminology
• Lessons
• Opening a document
• Scrolling and moving around
• Inserting text
• Selecting and modifying text
• Creating tables
• Making bullet lists
• Page numbering
• Changing views
• Note many of these concepts apply to all
  applications software (e.g., scrolling)

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MS Word Project 2

• Open files use Save As
• Moving about (scrolling, short-cuts, etc.)
• Inserting text, auto-complete
• Creating a complete letter
• Selecting text (click, double-click,
  triple-click, drag)
• Deleting and replacing text
• Views zooming in/out
• Envelopes and labels

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Summary of Objectives

• Understand and apply storage volume concepts
• Become familiar with Word
• File manipulation
• Moving about
• Basic editing

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Appendix
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Anatomy of a URL

• Example
• http//www.clt.astate.edu80/jseydel/mis1503/syll1
  503.htmtext
• Protocol
• Assumed is http
• Others https, mailto, ftp, file (i.e., local
  resource), . . .
• Location of the computer (corresponds to IP)
• Domain
• Domain name
• Machine
• Port (not part of IP) 80 is standard for http
• Location on the computer
• Folder
• Subfolders
• File extension (.htm, .asp, .html, .php, . . .
  )
• Bookmark (anchor)

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Organize Your Desktop

• Note the following structure
• My Documents
• Misc
• index.html
• index.txt
• Access
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Word
• Create the above folder/file structure
• Files are indicated by their extensions
• Folders are those names without extensions
• Copy this structure to your floppy disk
• Open Windows Explorer (should already be open)
• Scroll to top in Folders panel and click on
  Desktop
• In Contents panel select the folders youve
  created
• Click on first
• While holding down the Ctrl key, click on the
  other folders
• Click on Edit on the Menu bar

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Post Files to the Server

• All homework (and class exercise) files to be
  turned in are to be posted to your SuSE1 server
  account
• Well use FTP to do this
• Heres how
• In IE, go to ftp//www.SuSE1.astate.edu
• Enter your UserID and password
• First initial plus lastname (e.g., jseydel)
• Last 4 digits of student number plus first
  initial (e.g., 1234j)
• Navigate to Documents folder (not public_html)
• Copy the file from Windows Explorer
• Paste into Documents
• If its a web page, you can now view it anywhere
  in the world
• http//www.SuSE1.astate.edu/jseydel/index.html