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What Is Word Processing

The document discusses what word processing is and the basic and advanced features of word processors. Word processing involves using a computer, word processing program, and printer to create, edit, and print documents electronically. Basic features include inserting and deleting text, cutting and pasting, searching and replacing text. More advanced processors offer additional formatting and file management capabilities.

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What Is Word Processing

The document discusses what word processing is and the basic and advanced features of word processors. Word processing involves using a computer, word processing program, and printer to create, edit, and print documents electronically. Basic features include inserting and deleting text, cutting and pasting, searching and replacing text. More advanced processors offer additional formatting and file management capabilities.

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What is word processing

Using a computer to create, edit and print documents of all computer applications, word processing is
the most common.to perform word processing .you need a computer a special program called a word
processor and a printer a word processor enables you to create a document, store it electronically on a
disk display it on a screen, modify it by entering commands and character from keyboard and print it on
a printer

The great advantage of word processing over using a typewriter is that you can make changes without
retyping the entire document ,IF you make a typing mistake ,you simply back up the cursor and correct
you mistake .If you want to delete a paragraph, simply remove it .without leaving a trace . It is equally
easy to insert a word, sentence, or paragraph in the middle of a document .World processor also make it
easy to move section of text from one place to another within a document or between documents.
When you have made all the change you want, you can send the file to printer to get a hardcopy. Word
processor vary considerably. But all word processor support the following basic features

A. Insert text allows you to insert text anywhere in the document.


B. Delete text. Allows you to erase character, word lines , or pages as easily as you can cross
them out paper
C. Cut and paste. Allows you to remove cut a section of text from one place in a document
paste it somewhere else.
D. Copy. Allows you to duplicate a section of text
E. Page size and margins. Allows you to fine various page size and margins, and the word
processor will automatically readjust the text so that it fist
F. Search and replace. Allows you to direct the word processor to search for a particular word
or phrase you can also direct the word processor to replace one group of character with
another everywhere that the first group appears.
G. Word wrap. The word processor automatically moves to the next line when you have filled
one line with text. And it will readjust text if you change the margins
H. Print. Allows you to send a document to a printer to get hardcopy

Word processor that support only these features and maybe a few others are called text editors.
Most word processor, however, support additional features that enable you to manipulate and
format documents in more sophisticated ways, these more advance word processors are
sometimes called full-features word processor. Full –features word processors usually support
the following features

A. File management. Many word processor contain file management capabilities that allow you
to creat, delete, move, and search for file.
B. Font specification. Allows you to change fonts within document for example. You can

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