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Keyboarding

This document provides an overview of keyboarding, word processing, and the differences between using a typewriter and word processor. It discusses that keyboarding involves entering data using a keyboard, while word processing uses a computer program like Microsoft Word to create, edit, and print documents. The main advantages of a word processor over a typewriter are the ability to easily edit documents by inserting, deleting, or moving text without retyping the entire document.

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Keyboarding

This document provides an overview of keyboarding, word processing, and the differences between using a typewriter and word processor. It discusses that keyboarding involves entering data using a keyboard, while word processing uses a computer program like Microsoft Word to create, edit, and print documents. The main advantages of a word processor over a typewriter are the ability to easily edit documents by inserting, deleting, or moving text without retyping the entire document.

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KEYBOARDING & DOCUMENT PROCESSING WORD PROCESSING VS.

USING A TYPEWRITER

This course includes both keyboarding and The advantage of using a word processor over a
document processing. You will master the typewriter is that changes can be made without
computer keyboard, acquire effective keyboarding having to retype the entire document. You can
skills, and key letters, memos, tables, reports, and correct mistakes, and insert or delete words,
business forms in the keyboarding section. Speed sentences, or entire paragraphs anywhere in the
and precision are becoming increasingly document. You can also move sections of text
important. from one place to another, or even between
documents. The final version can be sent digitally
(by email), or to the printer to produce a hard
INTRODUCTION copy.

Keyboarding is the process of entering data by


means of a keyboard. Word processing is the TOUCH TYPING
process of using a computer to create, edit, and
print documents. To perform word processing, Touch typing (also known as touch type or touch
you need a computer and a program called a keyboarding) is typing without using the sense of
“word processor” (ex. Microsoft Word), and a sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist
printer. A word processor enables you to create a will know their location on the keyboard through
document, store it electronically on a disk, display muscle memory.
it on a screen, modify it by entering commands
and characters from the keyboard, and print it out
on a printer.

So, what is keyboarding? For short, the act of


inputting information onto a computer is known as
keyboarding.

And Word processing is the act of utilizing a


computer to produce, edit, save, and print
documents.

One example of a Word Processor is Microsoft


Word, but other word processing applications are
also widely used.

What are the features of word processors?


Typical features of a modern word processor
include multiple font sets, spell checking, grammar
checking, a built-in thesaurus, automatic text
correction, web integration, HTML conversion, pre-
formatted publication projects such as newsletters
and to-do lists, and much more.

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