Get premium membership and access revision papers, questions with answers as well as video lessons.

Got a question or eager to learn? Discover limitless learning on WhatsApp now - Start Now!

Word Processing Question Paper

Word Processing

Course:Diploma In Information Technology

Institution: Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture And Technology question papers

Exam Year:2009

JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
OF
AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
EXAMINATION FOR THE DIPLOMA IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DIT 0102: WORD PROCESSING
DATE: JULY 2009 TIME: 1HR 30 MIN

ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS

1.(a) Define the following terms in relation to Ms Word:

a) Spell check
b) Menu bar
c) Formatting [6 marks]
(b) Give the command used to save a document for the first time and list Four ways of saving a document [4 marks]
(c)Explain briefly the steps of renaming a document [2 marks]
(d)Differentiate paragraph style from character style [2 marks]
(e)Give two ways of adding rows and columns in tables [4 marks]
(f)Give two ways of reversing the last action you take while working with a word document.[ 2 marks]
2. (a) Explain the use of the following shortcut commands used in MS-word.
i) CTRL+ x
ii)Alt+ F4
iii)CTRL+C
iv)CTRL+V
v) Esc [5 marks]
(b) Explain the meaning of the following terms:
(i) Sentence case
(ii)Title case [2 marks]
(c) Explain the steps of printing the current page. [4 marks]
(d) State the various ways of highlighting text [4 marks]
(e) Explain the meaning of the headers and footers and give steps of inserting them in a document [ 5 marks]
3. (a) Define portrait and landscape types of orientation [ 2 marks]
(b) Differentiate between footnotes and end notes and explain how they are added to a MS-word [ 4 marks]
(c) Name the command used to copy a style and transfer it to other paragraphs in Ms Word and explain how this is done [ 4 marks]
(d) Define word art and give two ways of applying this feature in Ms Word [ 4 marks]
(e) List and explain any four ways of aligning text in Ms word [ 4 marks]
(f) Explain how to insert date/time in a document [ 2 marks]
4. (a) State the four main steps of creating a word document and producing a hard copy of the same. [ 4 marks]
(b) Explain three ways of creating hyperlinks in Ms Word [ 6 marks]
(c) Define what a table of contents is and explain the steps of adding a table of contents in Ms word documents [ 8 marks]
(d) Define the term printing in Ms word [2 marks]
5. (a) Define the following terms used in mail merge
i) Data source
ii)Main document
iii)Merge fields [ 6 marks]
(b) Give five areas where ms word is used [ 5marks]
(c) List and explain five features of any word processor [ 5marks]
(d) Explain how the following is done ina table created in Ms Word
i) Sorting data
ii) performing SUMMATION calculations [ 4 marks]

Word Processing Question Paper

More Question Papers

Popular Exams