Step-by-step walkthrough of building a document from several sources and applying character, paragraph and page formatting: fonts, colour, bold, superscript, justification, line spacing, bullets, tabs, margins, headers, footers, page numbers and footnotes.
5 narrated scenes. Press play, listen and read along — the points appear as they are explained. Use ‹ Prev / Next › or the scene bar to jump to any scene.
A neat flyer or report is not about fancy effects. It is about using a small set of formatting tools correctly, and the same tools are marked in your SBA and in Paper 032.
Narration uses your device’s built-in voice. No sound? Switch to “Captions only” — the captions advance on their own.
Copy these into your notebook in your own words — that is how they stick.
Insert ▸ Text from File combines documents.
Unformatted text avoids unwanted formatting.
Font, size, colour, B/I/U, superscript, subscript, highlight, case.
Justify, line spacing, bullets and numbering, tab stops, word wrap.
Margins, orientation, size, page and section breaks.
Repeated text at the top / bottom of each page; page numbers.
Note at the page bottom / end of the document.
Select the text before you format it.
3 quick games on this lesson. Earn XP and badges as you play — your best score for each game is saved. Games are for practice and do not change your exam readiness. More games in the Information Technology Arcade.
8 items modelled on real CSEC Paper 1 questions. Choose one answer for each, then check. Aim for 80% or better. Work each item on paper first.
Write full answers, then reveal the mark scheme and tick the points you earned (13 marks in total). Show all your working — method marks count. Your answers are saved on this device.
Question 1 [13 marks]
Tara is typing a report on the school science fair. Parts of the text come from files written by other students.
(a) (a) Describe how Tara can bring text from another file into her report. [2]
(b) (b) State the formatting feature Tara should use to type (i) the 3 in 10³ and (ii) the 2 in H₂O. [2]
(c) (c) She wants the title centred in bold and the paragraphs fully justified with double line spacing. Describe how she does this. [5]
(d) (d) Explain how to add the page number to the bottom of every page. [2]
(e) (e) Distinguish between a footnote and an endnote. [2]
Find these in your own past-paper booklets for extra timed practice. Items above are written in the style of these papers; any adapted from a specific question say so.