The document outlines key features and operations of a word processor. It discusses features like document creation and storage, editing text, formatting, and printing. It also describes common operations such as inserting and deleting text, cutting and pasting, searching and replacing text, changing fonts and formatting, adding footnotes and graphics, and controlling page layout.
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The document outlines key features and operations of a word processor. It discusses features like document creation and storage, editing text, formatting, and printing. It also describes common operations such as inserting and deleting text, cutting and pasting, searching and replacing text, changing fonts and formatting, adding footnotes and graphics, and controlling page layout.
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Features of word processor
1. Document creation, storage and retrieval. 2. Type a document through the keyboard and save it on disk. 3. Edit characters, words, lines, and images anywhere in the document. 4. Retrieve documents from the disk. 5. Move or copy paragraphs or images from one place in the document to another. 6. Reduce or increase the left, right, top and bottom margins according to the requirements. 7. Change the text font and style. 8. Search for a particular word or phrase. 9. Search for error in spelling and make corrections. 10. Print a document in various formats. Operations in word processor • a. Insert text: Allows you to insert text anywhere in the document • b. Delete text: Allows you to erase characters, words, lines, or pages as easily as you can strike out them on paper. • c. Cut and paste: Allows you to remove (cut) a section of the text from one place in a document and insert (paste) it somewhere else. • d. Copy: Allows you to duplicate a section of text. When you copy a piece of data, a duplicate of that data is placed in a temporary location. • e. Page size and margins: Allows you to define various page sizes and margins, and the word processor will automatically read just the text so that it fits. • f. Search and replace: This feature supported by most word processor which lets you replace a character with another character wherever the first character in the document. • g. Word wrap: This is the feature that causes the word processor to force all text to fit within the defined margins. • h. Print: Allows you send a document to printer to get hard copy • i. File management: Many word processors contain file management capabilities that allow you create, delete, move and search for files. • j. Font specification: Allows you to change fonts within a document. Ex: bold, italic, underline, size and style etc. • k. Foot notes and cross references: Automates the numbering and placement of foot notes enables you to easily cross references other sections of the document. • l. Graphics: Allows you embed illustrations and graphs into a document. • m. Headers and footers: Header is a line or lines of text that appears at the top of each page of a document. Once you specify the text that should appear the header, the word processor automatically inserts it. Footers are one or more lines of text that appears at the bottom of every page of a document. • N. Page number: The word processor automatically keeps track of page numbers so that the correct number appears on each page. • o. Layout: Allows you to specify different margins within a single document and to specify various methods for identifying paragraphs.