Cambridge IGCSE™

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 0417/31

Paper 3 Spreadsheets and Website Authoring February/March 2023

2 hours 15 minutes

You will need: Candidate source files (listed on page 2)

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INSTRUCTIONS
● Carry out all instructions in each step.
● Enter your name, centre number and candidate number on every printout before it is sent to the printer.
● Printouts with handwritten candidate details will not be marked.
● At the end of the examination, put all your printouts into the Assessment Record Folder.
● If you have produced rough copies of printouts, put a cross through each one to indicate that it is not the
copy to be marked.
● You must not have access to either the internet or any email system during this examination.

INFORMATION
● The total mark for this paper is 70.
● The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

This document has 8 pages.

DC (CJ) 327570/6 R
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You have been supplied with the following source files:

m23bat.jpg
m23batting.csv
m23logo.jpg
m23tcc.htm
m23text.txt

Task 1 – Evidence Document

Create a new word-processed document.

Make sure your name, centre number and candidate number will appear on every page of this
document.

Save this document in your work area as m23evidence_ followed by your centre number_candidate
number, for example, m23evidence_ZZ999_9999

You will use this as your Evidence Document during the examination.

Task 2 – Spreadsheet

The Tawara Cricket Club records on a spreadsheet the number of runs scored by each player in each
match that they played.

1 Open and examine the file m23batting.csv in your spreadsheet software.

Delete row 2.

Insert a new row at the top of the spreadsheet.

Merge cells A1 to V1. Place the text Tawara Cricket Club in this merged cell.

Merge cells A2 to V2.

Place in the footer, right aligned, the text Spreadsheet edited by followed by a space, your name,
centre number and candidate number.

Save this as a spreadsheet with the file name m23cricket_centre number _candidate number, for
example, m23cricket_ZZ999_9999
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2 Format the spreadsheet to look like this.

Tawara Cricket Club

Format row 1 to have 36 point sans-serif white text on a dark-grey background.

Format row 2 to have 18 point sans-serif black text on a light-grey background.

[10]

3 Place in cell U4 a function to count the number of matches played by this player. Replicate this
formula for each player.
[3]

4 Place in cells B33 and B34 functions to display the highest and lowest scores for this match.
Replicate this for all other matches.
[5]

5 Place a replicable formula in cell V4 to calculate the average score for this player, rounded to
1 decimal place.

Total runs scored

Average score =
Number of matches played – Not out

Edit this formula to make sure that cell contents are not displayed if this player has played fewer
than 5 matches.

Replicate this formula for all players.

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6 Save your spreadsheet.

Print your spreadsheet showing the formulae.

Make sure:

• the row and column headings are displayed

• the gridlines are displayed
• the page orientation is landscape
• the contents of all cells are fully visible and can be easily read.
[2]

7 Sort all the data for the players in descending order of their average score. Those players who do
not have an average score displayed must be at the bottom of the list.
[5]

8 Save your spreadsheet with the file name m23cricket1_centre number_candidate number, for
example, m23cricket1_ZZ999_9999

Print your spreadsheet showing the values.

Make sure:

• the row and column headings are not displayed

• the gridlines are not displayed
• the page orientation is landscape
• the contents of all cells are fully visible and can be easily read.
[2]

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Task 3 – File Management and Image Manipulation

9 Create a new folder called TCC

Locate the following files and store them in your TCC folder:

m23bat.jpg
m23logo.jpg
m23tcc.htm
m23text.txt

Open and edit the file m23logo.jpg by:

• reflecting (flipping) it horizontally

• rotating it 180 degrees so that the text is readable
• reducing the image dimensions to 900 pixels wide by 180 pixels high.

Save this new image in your TCC folder in .png format, using the file name tcclogo_ followed by
your candidate number, for example, tcclogo_9999

Display the contents of your TCC folder showing the folder name, all file names, file extensions,
image dimensions and file sizes.

Take a screenshot of this folder and place this in your Evidence Document.
[5]

[Total: 5]

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Task 4 – Web Page

You are going to create a stylesheet and part of a web page for the Tawara Cricket Club. The web
page and stylesheet must work in any browser. All colour codes are in hexadecimal and any new
colour codes must also be in hexadecimal. Make sure that your stylesheet contains no HTML. Make
your HTML and stylesheet as efficient as possible.

10 Create a new stylesheet in your TCC folder called m23tcc.css

Add CSS to this stylesheet to meet these specifications:

background colour blue component 0a

green component 04
red component 6d
h1, h2, h3 and p font style Domino, but if this font is not available then
Domino Regular, or if these fonts are not
available, the browser’s default serif font
font colour yellow
table alignment centre within the browser window
borders collapsed
not visible

Place your name, centre number and candidate number as a comment at the start of the
stylesheet.

Save your stylesheet. Place a copy of your stylesheet in your Evidence Document. Make sure that
the contents are easy to read.
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11 Open, in your TCC folder, the web page called m23tcc.htm

The web page has a structure like this.

B C

Each cell contains a letter which must not appear on your final web page.

Replace the letter:

• A with the image tcclogo that you saved in step 9

• B with the contents of the file m23text.txt
• C with the image m23bat.jpg
• D with the text Web page created by: followed by your name, centre number and candidate
number.

Apply style h2 to all text in cells B and D.

Make sure the aspect ratio of both images is maintained.

[6]

12 Edit this web page so that the table fits 85% of the browser window. [1]

13 Attach the stylesheet m23tcc.css to this web page.

Save the web page.

Display the web page in your browser. Take screenshot evidence and place this in your Evidence
Document.

Make sure that:

• all the page can be seen

• all the text can be easily read
• the address bar is fully visible.

Display the HTML source. Take a copy of the HTML source and place this in your Evidence
Document.
[2]

[Total: 22]

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Task 5 – Printing the Evidence Document

Make sure your name, centre number and candidate number appear on every page of your Evidence
Document.

Save and print your Evidence Document.

Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every
reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the
publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity.

To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge
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