Sample questions for Part B of the Offaly County Council Word
Processing Exam.
NOTE: This is a sample of 8 question types that may appear in Part B of the exam. Part B of
the actual exam itself will contain a total of 10 questions. All backup files can be
found in the folder called SAMPLE EXAM 2015
Question 1:
Open up the document called Camera Course Letter. This document is to be converted to a
mail merge form letter using the file students as its data source. Replace the existing name
and address lines with the following merge fields.
<<Title>> <<First Name>> <<Surname>>
<<Street>>
<<Town>>
<<County>>
Merge the students data source file with the letter to create the mail-merged document.
Save the new document as Merge1 and save and close all documents.
Question 2:
Recall the Camera Course Letter File, and add the style called Letter to the heading “Digital
Camera Course”. Edit the style so that the font colour is now red. Ensure that the style is
saved in the document
Question 3:
Open the document called Digital Camera. Enter your name in the centre of the header of the
document and apply the date and time, left aligned to the footer.
Question 4:
Highlight the text starting at the heading Automatic Mode to … click the shutter button to
take a picture. Set the highlighted text to 2 column of equal size with 0.75 cm space and a
line between.
Question 5:
At the end of the document add the following table
Camera Types
Camera No.
Zoom
Resolution
Camera 1
10 x digital zoom
5 megapixels
Camera 2
4 x optical zoom
4 megapixels
Camera 3
6 x optical zoom
5.5 megapixels
Merge all the cells in the first row of the table and add a light green background colour.
Question 6:
Apply the image called leaf to the right hand side of the document header. Change the size of
the image to 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm. Set the wrapping on the image to tight.
Question 7:
Highlight the list Camera Modes to Shutter Speed after paragraph 1. Add a right aligned
tab at 15 cm, with a leader dot style 12 and align the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the newly
created tab.
Question 8:
Highlight the heading “The Digital Camera”. Change the Formatting of this text to Tahoma,
Size 16, with a shadow effect. Set the text to Small Caps and change the font colour to blue
Accent 1 lighter 40%