Word Processing
Word Processing
This domain tests document creation and formatting: character and paragraph formatting, styles, tables, headers/footers, page setup, find/replace, and mail merge. Questions often ask for the correct feature or the order of operations.
Core rules
- Character formatting affects selected text; paragraph formatting affects alignment, spacing, indents and line spacing for whole paragraphs.
- Styles store reusable formatting and support consistent headings and automatic tables of contents.
- Headers/footers repeat on pages; page setup controls margins, orientation, paper size and breaks.
- Tables organize tabular data; merged cells combine adjacent cells, and formulas can reference cells.
- Mail merge combines a main document with a data source to produce personalised copies.
Worked example
To merge letters: create the main document containing the fixed text; create or connect a data source with fields such as Name and Address; insert merge fields at the correct places; preview the merged result; then complete the merge to a new document or printer. The reasoning is separation of template from records: one main document is reused for every row, so fields must match data-source column names.
Traps
Saving as PDF is not the same as saving an editable document. A header is not the document title. Find/replace can change formatting or text, so check scope. In tables, deleting cell contents is not the same as deleting rows or columns. Mail merge fails if field names are misspelled or the data source is not connected.