Pre-assessment Challenge
What have you learned?
Well - you are nearly at the end of this short Document Production unit. Hopefully you have learned a few new tricks that might be useful to you in your school or working life! Hopefully you have gained some confidence in using technology, too, if you were a bit tentative at the start of the course. This is just a general Skill Challenge. Read the scenario below.
Poulsen Pooches is a company that is trying to highlight the issue of stray pets in society. It has identified the names and addresses of 10 district government workers and is going to send a letter directly them. The letter will be the same for everyone, except a little difference relating to whether or not the recipient owns a pet. Follow the instructions below and set up a mail merged letter to be received by each of the 10 government workers.
Download the 2 files and save them in your work area - do not leave them in the downloads folder of your computer; .
Open the letter text in a document production software package eg Microsoft Word.
Follow the document specification at the bottom of this webpage.
Create a Mail Merge letter to each of the government officials. Insert fields as indicated on the letter. Use officials.csv as the data file.
Replace the text Owner Text with the following rule: if the recipient of the letter is a pet owner, include the text "We are very happy to see that you own a pet!"; else include the text "Even though you do not own a pet, we'd like your support."
Make sure you finish the merge after spellchecking the document.
Upload your final merged letter document to your Google Drive folder. Save it as "Poulsen Letter"
Document specification
- orientationportrait
- Datebold and underlined
- letter textTimes New Roman, font size 10, justified, 1.5 line spacing, each paragraph has first line indenting (1cm)
- imageFind an image of a pitiful stray pet and insert it to the right of the list of 5 qualities. The height of the image should be the same as the height of the qualities list.
- listMake the list of 5 qualities a numbered list.
- listIndent the list by 2cm.
- page numberingUse automatic page numbering in the footer, right-aligned.
When you have finished generating the letters, make sure you save the individual letters in a file. It could be a single file or multiple files.