Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Junior Secondary School 3

TERM: 2ND TERM

SUBJECT: BUSINESS STUDIES

CLASS: JSS 3

WEEK TEN

TOPIC: SIMPLE TABULATION 

CONTENT:

1. Tabulation
2. Table Creation
3. Keyboard Items into a table

Meaning of a Table

A table is a structure made up of rows and columns and used to organize data. Tables are very good for presenting figures and statistics.    

Tabulation involves arranging items in columns. In a tabular arrangement therefore,

Items stand out below each other, vertically, and on the same line as another in the next

column, if horizontally.

A tabular work has the following features:-

1. Top and bottom margins are equal, if vertical display.

2. Left and right margins are equal, if a horizontal display. 

3. Equal spaces between the columns, usually odd number spaces such as 3, 5 or 7 spaces.

4. Left and right margins, being equal, the table is centred over the page

NOTE

1 The effectiveness of any display work, particularly, in tabulation, depends on correct horizontal calculation.

2 Ensure correct width of your paper on the typewriter   

3 Pica and elite typewriters have six standard spaces to a vertical 1 inch (25 mm).

4 Horizontal spacing: Pica – 10 characters (horizontal spaces = 1 inch). Elite – 12 characters (horizontal spaces = 1 inch).

CREATING A TABLE IN MICROSOFT WORD

To create a table, do the following:

• Start a new word document
• From the menu bar, click on table.
• From the menu that drops down, click insert
• A sub-menu appears and from the sub-menu, click insert.

For instance, one can create a table for ten natural resources and their locations in Nigeria. The first step is to type the headings.

The table will have two columns and ten rows. The number of columns and the number of rows will be adjusted. Then click OK button. Your table will look like this.

The boxes in the table as drawn in the Microsoft Word are called cells. You can go ahead and type into cells

TWO-COLUMN TABULAR DISPLAY

FOUR-COLUMN TABULAR DISPLAY

      SUBJECT LECTURERS

EVALUATION

1 What are the typewriting typefaces?

2 What is most important in the  effectiveness of any display work?

READING ASSIGNMENT

Business studies for JSS3 by O. A Lawal and others pages 152-154.

GENERAL REVISION QUESTIONS

1. State the principle of double entry. 
2. Give three examples of current assets.
3. What is a capital?  
4. What is the reward of capital?
5. State the other name for entrepreneur as a factor of production

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1     Pica and elite typewriters have --------- standard spaces to a vertical 1 inch (25 mm)

1. 5       B.  6        C.   7       D.   8

2    For a vertical display top and bottom margins must be -------------

1. odd number       B.   unequal       C.   equal        D.  even number

3     To centre the table heading, the left and right margins must be -------------

1. equal       B.  even       C.   odd number        D.  unequal

4     The odd-number spaces between columns helps to insert ------------

1. missing words       B.   missing letters       C.   lines           D.   decorations

5     To ensure the correct width of your paper on the typewriter by inserting the paper with left edge  on scale point ---------- A. 25mm       B.   0       C.   2        D.   3

THEORY

1     Display with your typewriter the manuscript in Exercise 5 on page 155.

2     In an A4 landscape how many characters are there in a pica typewriter?