WORD PROCESSING CHALLENGE 5

Word processing applications are used primarily to write and format text. Type the following
document in the box below as is and perform the instructions listed below.
BUYING COMPUTER EQUIPMENT
Buying Hardware
Hardware is the term given to describe the physical equiptment that makes up a computer
system. An office system must be able to withstand the long hours of work. The arrangement
must also be given great consideration since it must withstand long hours of prolonged use.
The computer configuration for the home however, is dependent on the cost. Most impact
printers are becoming obsolete. It typical system congigfuration consist of a CPU, a monitor
or VDU, a keyboard, disk drive and (CD ROM) drive, speakers, modem and a printer.
Buying Printing Machines
Most impact printing machine are becoming obsolete, so they may be difficult to find in
computer stores. Off the non-impact printing machine, ink jet and laser printing machine are
the most popular. Although laser printing machine are expensive their ever reducing cost is
making them very popplar in institutions, large company and small businesses. Laser printing
machine produce a very high quality output at high speeds. Ink jet printing machine spray
electrically charged droplets of ink onto the paper. However, although the quality of print is
high, for ink jet printing machine the ink tends to smudge. There are so many options available
today when purchasing a printer.
Perform the following instructions in the sequence given.
1. Type the passage.
2. Insert the words: Compact Disk Read Only Memory in the second sentence of the first
paragraph, before the words CD-ROM drive.
3. Replace the word company in the third sentence of the second paragraph, with the word
companies.
4. Place the last sentence of the first paragraph after the first sentence.
5. Copy the last sentence of the last paragraph to the beginning of the last paragraph.
6. Change the font of the sentences in quotation marks in the second paragraph and bold it.
7. Delete the last sentence of the first paragraph.
8. Center-justify and bold the headings.
9. Change the size of the heading to 16 points. (Format, Font, Font Size)
10. Underline the heading. (Format, Font, Underline)
11. Indent each paragraph. (Use the Tab key on the keyboard)
12. Full-justify the margins of the document.
13. Spell-check your document. (Tools, Spelling and Grammar)
14. Highlight the words laser printers throughout your document.
15. Set the left margin of your document to 1.5 and all other margins to 1. (File, Page Setup)
16. Change the colour of the text in the quotation marks to blue. (Format, Font, Font colour)
17. Insert your name and address at the top of the document and right align it, using font size 12.
18. Insert the date. (Insert, Date and Time)
19. Replace all occurrences of the words printing machine with the word printers. (Edit,
Replace)
20. Print the document.