National Qualifications Online - Core skills

Activity 1

The local café puts up a notice of the special dishes of the day.

The notice is a word processed file which is edited each day.

Before After
A picture of the cafe's notice before alteration A picture of the cafe's notice after alteration

Follow these steps to change the original 'Before' document to the edited 'After' document.

  1. Open your folder and find the file Menu.
  2. Open the file.

Enter new text

  1. Place the text cursor just after "Today is".
    Remember to leave a space before the next word.
  2. Enter "Wednesday".
  3. Place the text cursor just after "Your chef is"
  4. Enter "Gordon Lambert".

Edit text

There were no red peppers, only green ones at the market.

  1. Place the text cursor at the end of "Red".
  2. Press "backspace" three times.
  3. Enter "Green".

The lamb is finished and the chef is going to use chicken.

  1. Place the text cursor at the end of 'lamb'.
  2. Press "backspace" four times.
  3. Enter "chicken".

Now save and print your file.

Keep your printout in a folder of work. Your tutor may want to see it.