1.
DC Electronics is developing robots for use in the new UK space program.
The secretary is about to send out a letter to all of the workers.
(
a
) On looking over the letter the secretary notices that spice has been used
instead of space throughout.
(i) State the feature of a word processing package, which can be used to
make this change in one operation.
(ii) Describe how you would use this feature to correct the spelling of
spice.
(
b
) Before printing, the secretary did a
spelling check
of the letter. It
highlighted RobotRanger each time as wrongly spelled.
(i) Explain how a spelling check feature works.
(ii) State how you would stop this happening again.
(
c
) After correcting the spelling, there are still some mistakes.
State the feature that would pick up the error shown below.
The first trial of the RobotRanger ar
e
the 12th of June.

1. (continued)
(
d
) When writing the letter, the secretary makes use of
standard paragraphs.
State
what
a standard paragraph is.
(
e
) The company decides to alter the letter and produce a newsletter using a
desk top publishing
package instead.
Describe how they can do this
without
re-typing the text of the letter.
(
f
) A picture of the robot designers, shown below, is to be put into the
newsletter. The photograph is too large to fit.
State what must be done to make it fit.
(
g
) The secretary has used
tables
before
but has forgotten how to use them.
She could use
on-line help
or an
on-line tutorial
for assistance.
(i) State which one would be more suitable.
(ii) Explain your choice for the above answer.

2.
Anwar Animations is a firm that writes games programs using a range of
different computers such as
palmtops
and
laptops.
(
a
) State
one
disadvantage of using palmtop computers for writing
programs.
(
b
) Palmtop computers use a special type of screen for input.
Name this type of screen.
(
c
) When programs are edited, the code is stored in
main memory
.
State the type of main memory used.
(
d
) One of the files created when writing the program needs to be used on
another computer. The file size is 850 megabytes.
What type of backing storage is required to allow them to move it to
another computer?
(
e
) The program is written in a
high level language
but the computer only
understands
machine code.
What needs to happen to the program to allow it to be used on a
computer?
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