The document outlines the development of ICT content through application software features, focusing on mail merge, custom animations, hyperlinking, and integrating images. It details the components and steps of mail merge, types of animations in PowerPoint, and methods for incorporating external materials in word processors and Excel. Additionally, it highlights the use of advanced formulas for computations in Excel worksheets.

1. DEVELOPING ICT CONTENT
FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

2. APPLICATION SOFTWARE (APPS)
• Useful for reports containing three features:
a. Textual
b. Numerical
c. Presentation

3. TECHNIQUES IN EMPOWERING
USERS OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE
• Mail Merge
• Custom animations and timing
• Hyperlinking
• Integrating images and external material in word
processors
• Embedded files and data
• Advanced and complex formulas and computations

4. A. MAIL MERGE
•A feature in Word where you can merge
boilerplate information (such as form letter) with
variable information (such as databases of names
and addresses of customers)

5. 3 COMPONENTS OF MAIL MERGE
1. Main Document- contains the boilerplate information:
text and graphics.
2. Data Source- contains the variable information (e.g. list
of names and addresses)
3. Merged Document- contains the combined boilerplate
text and variable information.

6. MAIL MERGE PROCESS FOUR MAIN
STEPS:
1. Open or create the main document
2.Open or create the data source
3.Edit the main document
4.Perform the merge

7. B. CUSTOM ANIMATIONS AND
TIMING
• There are four kinds of animation effects in PowerPoint
2010:
1. Entrance effects
2. Exit effects
3. Emphasis effects
4. Motion Paths

8. C. HYPERLINKING IN
PRESENTATION
• Hyperlink is a connection from one slide to another slide
in the same presentation (such as hyperlink to a custom
show) or to a slide in another presentation, an e-mail
address, a Web page or a file.
• You can create a hyperlink from text or from an object,
such as picture, graph, shape, or WordArt.

9. D. INTEGRATING IMAGES AND
EXTERNAL MATERIALS IN
WORD PROCESSORS
•Pictures can be inserted (or copied) from many
different places, including a computer, an online
source like Bing.com or a web page.

10. E. EMBEDDED FILES AND DATA
• When you want to create a dynamic link between the
content of your document and the content in a PPT,
insert the content as object.
• Unlike pasting content or simply pressing CTRL+V, when
you insert it as a linked or embedded object, you can
still work with it in the original program

11. • If you insert the slide into the document as a PowerPoint
object, Word runs PowerPoint when you double-click the
slide, and you can use PowerPoint command to work on
it.
• When you insert an entire PPT presentation as an object,
the document displays only one slide. To display different
slides, double-click the PowerPoint object, and then press
ENTER to run the slide show.

12. F. ADVANCED AND COMPLEX
FORMULAS AND COMPUTATIONS
•Worksheets in Microsoft Excel help create
formulas and computations.
•Example: The function SUM is used to add
values in cells.