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MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD

WORD PROCESSING.

Introduction:
- Office documents are generally mechanically or electronically produced records: e.g.
letters, spreadsheets, memos, invoices, and so on.
- These are produced on a variety of equipment, including typewriters, word processors,
and computers, and may be saved on paper or in electronically encoded form.

Definition and Explanation of terms:-


1. Word Processing: -
- Refers to the art of typing, editing, formatting, saving, printing etc of text material using
a computer.

2. Word Processor: -
- Refers to an application program that creates enabling environment for manipulating text-
based documents.
- It is the electronic equivalent of paper, pen, typewriter, eraser, and most likely, dictionary
and thesaurus.
- Word processors run the gamut from simple through complex, but all ease the tasks
associated with editing documents (deleting, inserting, rewording, and so on).
- Some word processors can also check spelling, find synonyms, incorporate graphics
created with another program, correctly align mathematical formulas, create and print
form letters, perform calculations, display documents in multiple on-screen windows, and
enable users to record macros that simplify difficult or repetitive operations.
- The term word processor has also been used to refer to computers introduced in the 1980s
that were designed solely for word processing.

Features of Word Processors: -


- All word processors offer at least limited facilities for document formatting, such as font
changes, page layout, paragraph indention, and the like.
- Depending on the program and the equipment in use, word processors can display
documents either in text mode, using highlighting, underlining, or color to represent
italics, boldfacing, and other such formatting, or in graphics mode, wherein formatting
and, sometimes, a variety of fonts appear on the screen as they will on the printed page.

Word processing computers were able to perform multiple editorial and formatting
functions, such as editing text: -
1. Typing text.
2. Saving text documents.
3. inserting new text,
4. deleting text,
5. performing search and replace functions
6. Table features.
7. Word Art.
8. Mail merging etc.

- Examples of word Processors: -


1. Word.
2. Ms – Word.
3. Word Perfect.
4. Word Star.
5. etc.

3. Dedicated word processors: -


- These are computers designed solely for word processing.
- As with word-processing software designed for personal computers, dedicated word
processors features multiple editorial functions that facilitate manipulation of text,
including the ability to insert new text at any point in a document, delete text, "cut and
paste" (move blocks of text to a new location within the same document or to another
document), and search for and replace portions of text—enabling users to make multiple
changes in a document without extensive retyping.
- In addition, word-processing software may incorporate a type-composition function and a
page-layout function, enabling the user to electronically design and lay out a printed page
—key features of desktop publishing (see Typesetting Equipment).
- Word-processor text can be stored on a magnetic disk or other medium for later use and
may be transmitted to a printer to produce a document on paper, or "hard copy."

4. Word Wrap:-
- feature of word-processing computer software (see Word processor) and other computer
software that automatically places text within set margins.
- To do so, the program has to keep track of how much space is left on a line of text and
start a new line when necessary. Most word processing software moves the entire last
word on a line to the next line if even a few letters extend beyond the margin.
- This feature improves word-processing efficiency because a typist does not have to worry
about manually beginning a new line, as is necessary on a typewriter.

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