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Unit 2 - Basic Computer Skills

The document discusses the essential components of effective presentations, particularly using PowerPoint, which allows for the incorporation of multimedia elements. It also covers various internet applications such as search engines, online education, email, and online shopping, highlighting their significance in modern communication and information access. Additionally, it explains the concept of URLs and domain names, emphasizing their role in navigating the internet.
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Unit 2 - Basic Computer Skills

The document discusses the essential components of effective presentations, particularly using PowerPoint, which allows for the incorporation of multimedia elements. It also covers various internet applications such as search engines, online education, email, and online shopping, highlighting their significance in modern communication and information access. Additionally, it explains the concept of URLs and domain names, emphasizing their role in navigating the internet.
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Auto content wizard Slide sorter view Rehear size show Notes view Multimedia and web support Office art Design templates Animation : This option pend text 5 t presentation with pre-defined pros as well as text. This slide 8 ‘Animation: This option is used for both pictures f | animated to make then more attractive. 9) ‘Charts and tables: The option is used fo imp PowerPoint. 10) Background color and effe for slides in PowerPoint. Not onl to the slides. PowerPoint is the powerful and ubiquitous presentation program from Microsoft, i ives you the facility to create stunning presentations that incorporate video and PowerPoint aimations. | PowerPoint is a slideshow presentation program that's part of the Microsoft offic te of tools. PowerPoint makes it easy to create, collaborate, and present your ideas it aamic, visually compelling me TS OF MICROSOFT POWERPOINT WINDOW oak nceeee feel ' me Sa customizable toolbar placed by default on the !@ of Ribbon, you can add icons for your often u: R : can also be placed below the Ribbon, sed commands to this toolbar. The ‘ort various charts and tables x cts: We can have wide varieties of background ly color we can also apply different textures and sl 10. IL. Gt is ‘Search Engines : Search engines are applications of web sites over the internet. ‘This provides facility to the user for locating a web page from world wide according to the given aiteria. Online Education : With the help of intemet you can apply for admission in any ‘university of the world and can also study virtually. email : E-Mail stands for Electronic Mail. The exchanging of text message and file ‘between computer over a network is called as E-Mail, Internet provides you to facility to send letters or messages anywhere in the world in just few seconds. Online Ticket Booking : Booking of Air, Train and Bus tickets is an important advantage of internet. You can reserve any ticket of any part of the world with its help. Job Search : With the help of intemet any person can search job all over the world. Many websites provides this facility. A person can also apply for job through intemet. They are provides Interview tips, Resume writing tips. Research : Intemet provides many facilities for research work; we can see different types of information on different topics. Many websites provides this facility for out extra knowledge and guidance. News Groups : Newsgroups are “Forums on the internet for discussion on different subjects”. A newsgroup consists of a topic of discussion and all the responses of posted by the people. With the help of intemet, we canget updated news about any country of world and about hot issues any time. Entertainment : Internet provides many types of entertainment for us. We can play games, watch movies, listen to music and see match etc. online, Online Shopping : This is the modern way of buying and selling goods over the internet. Vendors provide information about their products/services on the internet and customer can place order online. i bisa te “WWW. Its aisa way of exchand! ITP stands for Hypertext Transfer Wiebsltes, Few popular web brovisess The Wb only uses the HTTP rotor Secure. also uses web browsers to access Firefox, Chrome, Explorer, and Safari. ww. A search engine “ord Wide Web It is Examples © Following are the popular search engines a Se ee 7. 8. Search engines utilize 2 These software sie. Alter that another program call e words contained in each document. index based on th algorithm to create its indices Google. Bing Baidu. Yahoo! Yandex. Ask. DuckDuckGo. Naver plications travel is a web-based tool that : enables. informa @ service that allows Internet aan cS sheenthoss software applications like robots, bots, or spiders. | along the Web, following links from page f0 page; site to an indexer reads these documents and creates an Each search engine uses a proprietary or bots. It is 2'software co ler “Web Crauter: It is also known as spider Sak the web is stored In database. It condi 2. Database : All the information on 3% Ta coer an teins baton owe oS Ithelps the user to search through the database. t Quesho UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) she @ URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. URL is the address or location of somet on the internet It is used to create a complete web address to direct a baie toa n page online called a web page. It is asset of directions and every web page has a unique i is a unique identifier used to locate a resource on AURL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique identi : n the intemet. It is also referred to as a web address. End users use URLs by typing them. directly into the address bar of a browser or by clicking a hyperlink found on a webpage, bookmark list, in an email or from another application. URL Format URLs consist of multiple parts -- including a protocol and domain name -- that tela web browser how and where to retrieve a resource. URLs have the following format. protocol://hostname/other_information Example : http://www.amazon.com/ A URL incorporates the domain name, along with oth le in. A domai ler detaik Ba etailed informatio: servers \ jn the browser URL bar to visit ime is the address of your website that people $e your domain name will be its ee For example, if your website was a house, A domain name is the website name. A domai where Internet - A domain is .ysers can access your website. A domain name is used for! fii Seca = a 9 a lentifying computers Need for Domain Name The Internet is a giant network of computers connected to each other through a global network of cables. Each computer on this network can communicate with other computers. Jo identify them, each computer is assigned an IP address. It is a series of numbers that identify a particular computer on the internet. Now an IP address like this is quite difficult to remember. Imagine if you had to use such numbers to Visit your favorite Websites. Domain Name Format Adomain name takes the form of two main elements 1. Website Name 2. Domain Name Extension Example : In the domain name Facebook.com, the website’s name is Facebook and the domain name extension is .com. Adomain name can be any combination of letters and numbers, and it can be used in, om, .net and more. combination of the various domain name extensions, such @s registered before you can use it, Every domain name is The domain name must be je domain name: Unique, No two websites can have the sar Domain Name Types Top-Level Domain (TLD) refers to the suffi alimited list of predefined suffixes which includes o .com - Commercial Business x or the last part of adomain name. There's Clients : Email clients are m itself ae the email you es es lon might not be that beginner 0D ProtonMail 1 Yandex Mail Webmail : Webmail is an online email system which allows users to set up a free email account. This allows users to create/send emails and manage their address book. As long as you have an internet connection, you can access your account on any iivice and browser. It is ideal for general users or small companies) COnsidannia mags webmail services are free. The storage is limited too, which prevents you from sending large files”) GETTING AN E- MAIL ACCOUNT Setting up an email account is very easy. There are many email service providers. However in this book, we are showing setting up an Gmail Account. AGmail account offers these and a robust spam filter. You can use it to access be junk. You can also use it ®isting email accounts and profit from Gmail eliminating the profit from Gmat ; that old mail or as a backup. Setting up a free Gmail account is a quick, easy proce little time to complete Bae file known as workbook. is tegories of people like accounts, be used by various ca ’ 5 meee eae FEATURES OF MS-EXCEL ‘ sailable number of features that are av: sea ofthe important feature of MS-Excel. Formattir 1. Formatting: Formattingis one ides i ksh legible out look. MS-Excel provides different tyy Boe date and time formatting, text formatting ef. formatting, like number formatting, 2, Macros: Macros are particularly useful when you want to perform repetitive : Macros is a series of commands and other actions, recorded and saved witha for later use. Macro saves the time and speed up the activities. 3. Charts: Charts are the pictorial representation of worksheet data. These aero analytical tools. MS-Excels has fifteen basic charts types and many sub types. The choice you make depends on the kind of data you're plotting. 4. Autofill: This feature allows you to quickly fill cells with repetitive or sequential daft such as chronological dates or numbers, and repeated text. Autofill feature canalsobe in Excel to make our task easier used to copy functions. Automatic worksheet formatting: Auto format is a very useful feature of excel thateal | help you to quickly format data entered in the enitioct

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