Word Processing
Word Processing covers creating and formatting documents: text entry, selection, fonts, paragraphs, pages, tables, printing and mail merge. CCC tests practical results-what happens when you apply a style, insert a page break or merge a data source-rather than menu memorisation.
Core rules
- Character formatting changes selected text (font, size, bold, italic, colour). Paragraph formatting changes alignment, indentation, spacing, and applies to the whole paragraph even if nothing is selected.
- Styles bundle formatting and enable a table of contents; direct formatting overrides a style.
- Page setup controls margins, orientation, paper size and headers/footers.
- Find and Replace can replace text throughout a document; use Replace All carefully.
- Mail merge combines a main document with a data source (table or list) to produce one letter per record.
Worked example
You have a letter with the placeholder «Name» and a data source with 100 recipients. After completing the merge, the output contains 100 personalised letters, each with that record’s name. If one letter shows «Name» instead of a name, the field name in the main document does not match the column header in the data source. Fix the header or reinsert the field, then merge again. Merging does not edit the original data source.
Traps
Selecting a word and changing font size affects only that word; placing the cursor and changing paragraph spacing affects the paragraph. Save updates the current file; Save As creates a new file or format. A manual page break is not the same as pressing Enter repeatedly. Do not expect .docx and .odt to preserve every feature perfectly. Check the print preview before printing.