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From the very day I saw the question on MS word activity on VLE; I felt that it was the assignment given for the pre service students for being not given the space to upload it. I thought that question mistakenly got uploaded in our VLEs. But after interaction made with my friends I came to know that it was really ours.

I have scanned the questions but all appeared simple to me. I thought it would take only few days to complete it and I left it undone for many days. It was on 21^st September that I sat to start the activity. The first question was found easy for we have been working on similar activities many times in the past. Getting deeper down to the next question, although it seems to appear easy, it wasn’t the way I expected. The drawing of triangle with arrow head crossed horizontally was really tough for me. How much ever I tried, the solution was different. Thinking that I would get late, I asked my friends to tell how it should be done. At first they had also struggled a lot. But having done much discussion, finally I could make out the diagram exactly the same, I believe.

 Coming to the birth day card and sport certificates, I took lots of time to complete it. The ideas learnt during Chephen Rigphel project have really helped me in this activity. We were taught those things during Chephen Rigphel project workshop. I have also asked my friend lop Kinley to share his experiences on making the merit certificates for sport players. Through this, I am sure I got a lot of experiences in production of invitation card and sport certificates.

Using mail merge was another where I referred the Chephen Rigphel Guide book where mail merging process is shown step by step. When I referred that book, I remembered I had also learnt this during the above mention workshop. It explained me that, to keep the learnt IT skills alive, we should keep in touch with the skills learnt. It was found that it has a tremendous benefit while preparing invitation cards where we don’t have to write for every individual address. The names of the recipients get printed automatically with the same content.

The alignment part and the insertion of pictures were not tough for me. Compared to others, it was found easiest part of the MS word activity. The biggest challenged was the preparing the front cover of the news letter. In the beginning I thought that, I would prepare a letter heading. But I was not sure that if it was the letter heading. I clarified with my friend who said it should be front page of the news letter rather than letter heading. I asked him how I should do. But he was generous enough to explain me the whole process of doing it. I have tried for many times and finally I could make out the one that was submitted.

 To this end, I firstly thank the tutor for providing such activity which has really awaken me in MS word skills. Had tutor not given this activity, I would have not learnt the things that I had, from this activity. And also I thank my friend Kinley for providing guidance in the production of the activity as a complete one.

Thanks!!!