3.1.3 ICT Application software and systems
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- Created on: 23-11-17 08:34
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- 3.1.3
- Application software
- Output of application software
- Letter
- Graphs
- Charts
- Brochures
- Greeting card
- Reports
- Software that can be used for
- Sorting data
- Searching for data
- Mail merge data
- Manipulating graphics
- Presentations
- Output of application software
- Application systems
- Wizard step by step production
- Often in forms interface
- Users is presented with questions or choice
- Answers to questions are used to produce final product
- Advantages
- Easy for inexperienced people to use
- Quick to create documents by answering questions
- Consistency
- Dis-advantages
- Loss of originality
- May not meet requirements
- Wizard step by step production
- Style sheets
- Defines styles to use
- Font
- Colour
- Size
- Borders
- Advantages
- House styles can be achieved
- Consistency
- Users don't waste time choosing fonts
- Quick to select pre-defined styles rather than creating them each time
- Dis-advantages
- Have to be created previously
- Loss creatvity
- Often reliant on users
- Defines styles to use
- Templates
- Pre-defined lay outs
- Business cards
- Newsletters
- Envelopes
- Certificates
- Advantages
- Speedy document creation
- House style
- No information
- Novice users can produce complex documents
- Dis-advantages
- Originality can be lost
- Requirements not always met
- Custom templates have ti be created before
- Pre-defined lay outs
- Macros
- Actions performed in one go
- Batch operation (done and used over and over again)
- Used by
- A button
- Menu
- Creating a macro
- Setting start point
- Performing action
- Setting end point
- Advantages
- Repetitive tasks performed quickly
- Complex tasks achievable
- Software can be tailored
- Dis-advantages
- Macros need creating
- Macros go wrong easily
- Difficulty remembering short cut keys
- Application software
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