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Practical Work
1. Write a letter to 5 of your friends telling them about ‘Annual Day Celebration’. Use Mail Merge.
• Save the letter • Exit OpenOffice Writer
2. Type a few sentences on ‘National Animal of India’ in OpenOffice Writer and save file as ‘National_Ani’.
3. Open OpenOffice Writer in your computer and do these things:
a. Create a document in OpenOffice Writer and type two of the poems of your textbook.
• Write each poem in different style, bold the name of poem.
b. Write the following text in the Landscape orientation. Apply character and paragraph styles to the document.
Software is a set of instructions that makes the computer perform tasks. Software is another
term for a computer program. It controls the computer and makes it do useful work. Without
software a computer is useless.
Types of software
• System Software: It is the most important component to operate a computer. The
operating system is a type of system software.
• Application software: It is a program designed to help users perform specific tasks. It is
designed to be used by end-users.
• Take a print out by the help of Ctrl + P command and paste in your computer file.
4. Write an invitation letter for your birthday party by using Mail Merge feature.
• Add recipients, enter required details like Title, Name, and address of all the recipients.
• Send to your friends.
5. Make a poster for celebrating the Children’s Day Carnival in your school. Insert image and also use all the features
you have learnt so far.
6. You are planning to celebrate your grandparents’ birthday in a grand way. Design an invitation card and use mail
merge to mail to your family, friends and neighbours for inviting them to the birthday party.
7. Design your own letterpad and save it as your template in a word processor.
• Reset the default template as your letterpad
8. Write an article on “Save Girl Child”. Use all the features learnt so far. Insert an image and do the following with the image:
• Horizontal and vertical flip of the image • Crop the unwanted part of the image
• Wrap the image with the text • Modify, resize and rotate the image
• Insert few objects and group them • Apply any three graphical properties to it
9. Consolidate data of two sheets given below in third sheet of OpenOffice Calc.
Sheet 1
Name June Pocket Money
Amit 1200
Sumit 1000
Naina 1500
Suman 1300
Kamal 1400
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