Beginning word processing

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This is a primer for anyone starrting a word processing course and needs a quiz to get a discussion moving around the topic
tony thompson
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Questão 1

Questão
Word processors were developed because computers became very popular
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 2

Questão
The remington no 1 - invented by american Chritopher Sholes was the first commerical typewriter. Which of the following are true?
Responda
  • Only type capital letters
  • Was very popular with businesses
  • Did not need any training to use
  • Was invented in the 20th century

Questão 3

Questão
What improvements to the typewriter made it more popular?
Responda
  • The shift key allowed upper and lower case letters to be typed
  • Portable models were developed in the early 1900s
  • Microsoft bought the rights of the typewriter in 1972
  • It helped women to gain office jobs
  • IBM made the electromatic electonic typewriter in the 1930s

Questão 4

Questão
M Shultz invented the automatic or repetitive typewriter that could produce multiple copies of form letters identical to a hand typed original. How did it work?
Responda
  • A floppy disk stored the information
  • The typing sequence was recorded onto punched tape
  • Several typewriters were linked together to make multiple copies
  • It used special paper that could trace documents and make carbon copies.

Questão 5

Questão
IBM invented the 'golfball' typewriter in 1961
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 6

Questão
when IBM brought out the selectric MT typewriter it was able to edit text for the first time because it used a new technology. what was it?
Responda
  • Punched card
  • Hard drive
  • Magnetic tape
  • Floppy disk

Questão 7

Questão
What IBM developed feature replaced the magnetic tape and is in common use today for a variety of other uses?
Responda
  • Magnetic swipe cards
  • USB sticks
  • removable keyboard
  • hard drive

Questão 8

Questão
Lexitron and Linolex changed the way that everyone used word processors by adding this device in 1972
Responda
  • big keyboard
  • removable keyboard
  • mouse
  • video screen
  • tape cassette

Questão 9

Questão
IBM developed the floppy disk for storing numbers not word processing
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
The first word processing software was called
Responda
  • Word
  • Wordstar
  • Lotus notes
  • Electric pencil

Questão 11

Questão
Microsoft Word was first released for the Apple Mac
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 12

Questão
which of these are real word processing titles
Responda
  • Microsoft word
  • Macwrite
  • Gypsy
  • Ami Pro
  • Word Perfect

Questão 13

Questão
What features in Microsft word allows you to customise the writing on any document?
Responda
  • Fonts
  • styles
  • themes
  • format painter

Questão 14

Questão
Microsoft word is used for a variety of word [blank_start]processing[blank_end] tasks because it is very versatile and has more features and many of its competitors. It is not the best at everything but can tackle most tasks involving text.
Responda
  • processing
  • typing
  • writing

Questão 15

Questão
Word has been translated into more than 100 languages
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 16

Questão
word has a dictation function to allow typing without a keyboard
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
Word automatically saves files at fixed time intervals in case of crashes
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
which of these can be incorporated into a word document
Responda
  • table
  • chart
  • picture
  • text
  • music
  • movie
  • web page

Questão 19

Questão
A grammar checker is able to check the [blank_start]readability[blank_end] of a document
Responda
  • readability
  • number of words
  • spelling
  • font

Questão 20

Questão
What would you not use word for?
Responda
  • keeping count of the stock for a big business
  • making standard letters to send to customers
  • birthday cards
  • newsletters
  • making a CV

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