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Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717)

Elaborations
  • selecting and combining software functions as needed to create texts
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
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