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ITA Word-Processing & WWW Course Work

You have three hours to complete this practical, which will be conducted under examination conditions. You may reference any work that you have, either electronic or printed. Please read carefully the requirements for this practical, save your work often and good luck!
  1. Using the File Manager, copy the file Z:\COURSES\ITA\ARTICLES.DOC to the C:\USER directory. Open the file with Microsoft Word. Within it are articles from various sources which chronicle the history of Channel 5.
  2. Format the document with the techniques used in the previous tutorials. For example:-

  3. At the top of the document, insert the Channel 5 logo Channel 5 LOGO, but first it must be saved. To do this, click on the picture with the right mouse button, select "Save this Link as..." and save the file into the C:\USER directory.
  4. The articles are ordered by date, and within each article is an estimate of how much of the population will be able to receive Channel 5 when it begins broadcasting on March 30th. The best and worst estimate of each article is summarised in the table below:-

    Figure 1
    Date Best Worst
    17/10/96 85% 85%
    26/1/97 85% 75%
    21/2/97 85% 80%
    23/2/97 95% 33%
    11/3/97 85% 70%

    Enter this table into your document. Try to use borders and shading to make it look more interesting. Give it a caption.
  5. Plot the table's information in a suitable chart that is inserted after the table. Give it a caption.
  6. To finish the document we need to put an article at the top. The following contains the main heading and text you require, and it shows how to position the picture, table, chart and articles that you have been working with. Try to use cross-references (to captions and headings) wherever you can.

    Channel 5, or Channel 41/2

    Channel 5 LOGO

    Channel 5's reception over the past few months has seemingly been slipping, even before it has begun broadcasting. Articles and press releases from Channel 5, The Times and The Telegraph have revealed that receiving the station is not quite as simple as having a re-tuner visit your house.

    Predictions of the population that will be able to pick up Channel 5 have varied from 33%, right up to 95% (see figure 1 and figure 2). Experts differ, but most foretell that half the country will be disappointed on the 30th of March, the day when Channel 5 begins broadcasting.

    Many viewers will need a new aerial (see Aerial setback for Channel 5), a new television after theirs is broken (see Trouble with The Video: The fifth channel still has a lot of retuning to do) or will even have to move out of their flat (see Two-thirds of homes 'will miss Channel 5'). Anyone with cable television better think again if they expect a perfectly clear Channel 5 picture. Many companies are unhappy with the financial situation of broadcasting Channel 5 over their networks (see Channel 5 upsets cable companies).

    Perhaps the least troublesome way to pick up Channel 5 is to wait until digital television is launched which will broadcast all the terrestrial channels, plus many new channels. By then, you will hardly miss one channel out of the dozens on offer.

    Table here, followed by chart, followed by articles

  7. Save your work, quit Word and email your document to cokap1@hpm.lboro.ac.uk