This lab is just a chance to exercise your Word skills and knowledge.

I expect that there will be adequate time for everyone to finish the lab during class. Therefore, after you are done, please call me over and show me your lab. This is the only way in which you will receive credit for having done the lab. You must follow all instructions.

Remember to save your file periodically! It doesn't matter where you save it (i.e., your desktop, your My Documents, etc), so long as you remember where you save it.

I also expect that you will use a few of the shortcut keys that we learned last week. In particular, I expect to see you using alt-tab to switch between your web browser (containing the lab) and Word. I also expect you to use the home, end, page up, page down, and ctrl-end, ctrl-home short cuts when applicable (instead of, for example, holding down the right or left arrow key and just waiting for the cursor to eventually reach the correct spot).

IMPORTANT NOTE: In this lab, when typing something in the pattern of "[number] [unitname]" (e.g., "1024 kilobytes", "100 yen", etc) use non-breaking spaces in between the number and the unit. When I take a look at your lab, I will choose a random part of your lab and check to see that you used non-breaking spaces. Using non-breaking spaces is a good habit to get into anyways.

1. Find out how much hard drive space (used, free, and total) your computer has.
   • You did this in the shortcuts practice lab
2. Find out how much RAM your computer has.
   • You did this in the shortcuts practice lab
3. Now, open up Word and type up a sentence for each of the 4 numbers (e.g., "My computer has 3 gigabytes of RAM."). Please write out the entire unit (e.g., "megabytes" instead of "MB"). Then also add a new sentence fragment to the end of your sentence that says, "Equivalently, that is:"
4. Then, make a list after each sentence. Each item in the list should be the number & unit that you just typed up, but converted into a different unit (e.g., instead of gigabytes, use megabytes). See the bottom of this page for a conversion table. Additionally, add the words "which is also" to the first 3 items in each list. For example:

My computer has 3 gigabytes of RAM. Equivalently, that is:

1. 3072 megabytes which is also
2. 3145728 kilobytes which is also
3. 3.221225e9 bytes which is also
4. 2.576980e10 bits

You should do the conversion in 1 of 2 ways. Either, use your own physical calculator or use the Windows calculator (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Calculator)¹⁾. In other words, don't use some online converter to do it. Depending on the quality of your calculator, you may be given different answers than a neighbor with an equivalent computer.

So, in total you should have 20 numbers (4 base numbers [hard drive space free, used, total, and total RAM] and then 4 conversions done for each base number). If you don't have a whole number amount of something (e.g., you've got 23.36 gigabytes of free hard drive space) then just round to the nearest tenth (e.g., 23.4).

Now,

1. change the list style to be Roman numbers. I (personally) think that looks a little better. If you disagree, choose a style that you prefer (You could even make it simply a bulleted list, without any order to it).
2. change each paragraph to have 1.5 spacing
3. change each paragraph to have some space before the beginning of it (do NOT just insert a blank line before each paragraph)
4. change the font of the entire document (ctrl-a to select everything)
5. insert a picture of a hard drive, next to the hard drive section
   • Use either Microsoft Clipart, or something you find on the Internet. Wikipedia is a good source. We'll ignore the potential illegality of just copying and using someone else's work. I'm just going to assume you know how to do this. If you aren't sure or need help, feel free to call me over. The gist of it is that you can simply copy and paste it in.
6. insert a picture of RAM, next to the the RAM section
7. add a page break between each section (hard drive section, and RAM section)

1. Almost done! Open up the Windows task manager. You can do this in 2 ways:
   1. press ctrl-alt-delete and then click "Task Manager"
   2. right click the Windows task bar and choose "Task Manager"
2. You should be looking at the applications tab of the task manager and should see Microsoft Word there.
3. In the applications listing, right click Microsoft word and choose "go to process"
4. You should notice that you've now switched to the processes tab and that there are many processes running on your computer.
5. Insert a page break after the last section in your Word document. Go ahead and type up some (at least 4) observations that you see (full sentences please). Things to look at might include:
   • How many processes are there?
   • Are there any really oddly named processes?
   • Are there any duplicate processes? (2 or more processes with the same name)
   • Which attributes of each process are listed?
   • Does a process name look similar to any programs that you're currently running?
6. Go ahead and close the task manager.

1. Seriously, now you're almost done! Choose 2 things that you'd like to buy (whether you can realistically afford them or not doesn't matter). Decide which one you would prefer to have, if you could only have 1 of them. Feel free to use amazon.com for example, to find ideas or prices.
2. Hit enter a few times (so that there's some white space after your task manager observations).
3. Type something to the effect of, "I would really like to own:" and hit enter
4. Type the names of the two items that you'd like, making sure that they're items in a list. The first item in the list should be the item that you'd most prefer.
5. Did you know that Google can convert currency for you? You do now! Go to www.google.com
6. You're going to list how much your desired item costs in various world currencies. To do that, just type (for example) "10 dollars in euros" into Google's search and hit enter. It should immediately tell you how many Euros it would cost (you won't have to click any links to a separate web site). You can of course do this for other forms of currency.
7. Just go ahead and make a sublist under each item detailing how much your item would cost in various currencies. List at least 4 world currencies for each item. Example currencies include:
   • GBP (Great Britain's Pound)
   • Euros (from… Europe)
   • Yen (Japan)
   • Renminbi (China) (uses the same character as Japanese Yen)
   • Australian Dollar (AUD) (uses $ symbol)
8. Instead of using the word "dollar", "yen", etc., insert the symbol instead. If you don't know what the symbols look like, look them up on Wikipedia.
9. Change the list style to a look that you like.
10. Call me over to look at your lab and I'll give you credit.
11. Have a good day!

Handy conversion chart: