Checklist: Language Transformation

Date:02/12/2016
Advanced

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Set margins
Align (center, right, left, or proportional) text using ruler

Change fonts and styles of text
Use page break option to force material to new page
Create a header and footer
Use current date & time in header or footer
Use title page option (not print header or footer on first page)

Use automatic page numbering in header or footer

Turn automatic formatting options off and on
Use indent markers to create hanging indent format, and indented quote format

Apply spacing and alignment with ruler options and with formatting palette and
toolbar options
Set tabs for columns of data
Use tab markers and type tabbed columns of data appropriately

Use Leader Tabs

Use Outline options
Create columns then add text; format existing text into columns

Use column break to force text to a new column

Use section break to allow part of a page or one part of a document to have a
different type of formatting from another (as varied number of columns, different
margins, restarted page numbers)

Create Tables using the menu bar and toolbar, with and without pre-selected text

Use Tables Toolbar and menu to change the size of a table or merge or split cells

Use convert text to table and table to text, using Table Menu and various text/table
formats
Save and organize document files and backups
Use spell checking, thesaurus, and word count
Use borders and shading around text
Insert a graphic from clip art or a file
Use text wrapping options on a graphic
Use highlighting (not selection)
Use Comments

Beginner

Word Processing Skills

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Zoom in and out

Mail Merge with a word-processed document (a table in MS Word), a spreadsheet
(in MS Word), or a database Word, spreadsheet database
Use Track Changes
Copy (Paint) text and paragraph formats
Advanced: Create and use Styles
Total # = 33

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Intermediat
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Graphic Skills
Create a drawing using draw tools
Hide and show Drawing toolbar
Add pages to document (AppleWorks only)
Use a variety of the Drawing Tools
Create layers of objects and move objects to different layers

Group and ungroup objects

Change Fill Pattern, Color, and Gradient
Change Line/Pen Pattern, Color, and Gradient
Change Line/Pen width
Wrap text around graphic/make graphic in-line with text

Create Text Objects for selected text (note: this is different from borders) and
before text is typed.

Beginner

Spreadsheet Skills

Enter data in a cell

Align cell data (center, justify, etc.)
Format cell data (as number, date, etc.)
Enter a formula in a cell
Use relative references to cells in a formula
Use absolute references to cells in a formula
Use functions (Sum, Average, If, etc.)
Use Fill Down (Fill Right, etc.)
Use Fill Series
Create charts from data in cells
Edit chart components
Use options for copying and inserting charts into Word documents, so that data
can/cannot be changed in the Word document to change the chart
Word Word

Total # = 12

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Advanced: Link text boxes

Total # = 12

Slide Presentation Skills

Create slides of different types
Apply a background design
Use transitions between slides
Use build effects and custom animation within a slide

Add a graphic you created to a slide

Change bullets on the Slide Master
Change colors of background
Add a text object to a slide
Total # = 8

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Advanced

E-mail
Send and receive messages
Create mailboxes/organizational divisions
Store addresses and use them to send mail
Send an attachment
Receive an attachment
Open an attachment that doesnt open automatically (if the application is on your
computer)
Edit and spell check your mail
Total # = 7
Total all Categories # = 80; Count of items by column

Intermediat
e

Search for a specific record

Sort records by two fields
Edit records
Add and delete records
Change the layout of the record
Add and delete fields
Change the format of a field (as increase decimal places in a number field)

Merge the file with a word processing document Word

Total # = 8

Student: ___________________

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Beginner

Database Skills

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Instructor __________________
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Course: ___________________

Semester ___________________

Yes No

At least 80% accomplished at intermediate level

Yes

Self-Report Checklist is congruent with and adequately supported by class

work

No

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