Setting up and formatting tables in a word processing package

Skills covered:

• Basic formatting of text in a table
• Adding shading to table cells
• Adding a border
• Changing the colour and thickness of a table border
• Removing table borders
• Using table styles
• Sorting data in a table
• Inserting and deleting table rows and columns

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Setting up and formatting tables in a spreadsheet package

Skills covered:

• Entering data to create a table
• Basic formatting of text
• Wrapping text in a table
• Changing cell height and column width
• Formatting currency
• Decimal places
• Inserting rows
• Background shading
• Text alignment
• Borders

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Setting up and formatting tables in a presentation package

Skills covered:

• Creating a table
• Entering text into a table
• Column widths
• Inserting rows
• Format painter
• Table style options
• Table styles
• Borders
• Text alignment within table cells

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Using a table to create a travel itinerary

Students might well be given details of travel information and asked to present them as a professional looking travel itinerary. If they have never come across an itinerary before then they might struggle with this task in the exam.

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