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Introduction To Computer Concepts: Percival A. Fernandez

This document discusses word processing, beginning with a definition of word processors as computer applications used for document production, editing, formatting, and printing. It describes key features of word processors like formatting options and the ability to save documents. The document then covers the history of word processing from early text editors to the rise of personal computers and word processing software. It notes how word processing led to time savings and replacement of typists with the ability for all workers to directly create electronic documents.

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Introduction To Computer Concepts: Percival A. Fernandez

This document discusses word processing, beginning with a definition of word processors as computer applications used for document production, editing, formatting, and printing. It describes key features of word processors like formatting options and the ability to save documents. The document then covers the history of word processing from early text editors to the rise of personal computers and word processing software. It notes how word processing led to time savings and replacement of typists with the ability for all workers to directly create electronic documents.

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INTRODUCTION TO

COMPUTER
CONCEPTS

Percival A. Fernandez
Word Processing ,
Spreadsheet and
Presentation Tool
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processor-

 A word processor(more formally known as


document preparation system) is a computer
application used for the production (including
composition, editing, formatting, and possibly
printing) of any sort of printable material.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processor-

 A word processor may also refer to a stand-


alone computer unit similar to a typewriter, but
often including technological advancements
such as a screen, advanced formatting and
printing options, and the ability to save
documents onto memory cards or diskettes.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processor-

 Word processors almost invariably allowed the


user to choose between standard typing and
word processing modes by way of a switch.

 Word processors are descended from early text


formatting tools (sometimes called text
justification tools, from their only real
capability).
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-

 Word processing is the ability to create


documents using a word processor. It can also
refer to advanced shorthand techniques,
sometimes used in specialized contexts with a
specially modified
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-

 Microsoft Word is the most widely used


computer word processing system; Microsoft
estimates over five hundred million people use
the Office suite.

 There are also many other commercial word


processing applications, such as WordPerfect.
Open-source applications such as OpenOffice's
Writer and Kword are rapidly gaining in
popularity.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-Characteristics

 Microsoft Word is the most widely used


computer word processing system; Microsoft
estimates over five hundred million people use
the Office suite.

 There are also many other commercial word


processing applications, such as WordPerfect.
Open-source applications such as OpenOffice's
Writer and Kword are rapidly gaining in
popularity.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-Characteristics
Word processing typically refers to text manipulation
functions such as automatic
generation of:
 batch mailings using a form letter template and
an address database (also called mail merging);
 indices of keywords and their page numbers;
 tables of contents with section titles and their page
numbers;
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-Characteristics
Word processing typically refers to text manipulation
functions such as automatic
generation of:
 tables of figures with caption titles and their page
numbers;
 cross-referencing with section or page numbers;
 footnote numbering
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-History
 Word processing developed as specialized programs
on mainframe computers during the 1970s as online
computing with the use of personal terminal
devices having keyboards and display screens
became more common.
 These programs evolved from text based editors
used by programmers and computer professionals.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-History
 Microprocessors and, in the late 1970s, the ability
to place intelligent devices on the desks of workers
at reasonable cost including cheaper and smaller
printers, led to the introduction of machines
dedicated to "word processing".
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing-History
 Considerable time saving economies were achieved
by word processing operators. This resulted from:
 the faster typing speeds achieved by as a result
of electronic keyboards
 the assistance of the word processing software
for functions like layout and spell checking.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Time savings


 Further time savings were gained because the
originators of documents could mark corrections and
additions, return them for revision in the electronic
files and then re-review without checking the entire
document again for new errors but only checking the
updates.
 Not only were economies gained but superior
presentation and layout was achieved with the use of
multiple fonts and superior print quality, when
compared with typewriters.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Time savings


 These advantages led to a rapid replacement of
typists with word processing operators, especially as
the word processing systems evolved to give more
powerful functions and the power to cost ratio for
electronic equipment continued upwards
exponentially.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Personal computers


 For a few years word processing was very much
centralized in the way that typing was.
 The special word processing systems were still
too expensive and complex to become general
issue..
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Personal computers


 However, this began to change rapidly as the PC
began to appear on desktops throughout
organizations, with general staff doing their
own typing and document preparation.
 By the early 1990s, the typing and word
processing pool had disappeared.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Personal computers


 The evolution of word processing software
continued with both increased ability and ease of
use as PC's increased in power and as graphical
user interfaces (GUIs)became the norm.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Personal computers


 Not only had the typing pool disappeared but the
career of typist too, with ordinary workers doing all
their own typing and document creation and
increasingly by direct entry from thoughts into
electronic form, via a PC keyboard, without any
drafting of ideas onto paper.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Commercial evolution


 This evolution from typing using mechanical
devices to electronic word processing systems to a
do-it-yourself PC based packages, provided
commercial opportunities as well as pit-falls.
Companies rose and grew strong and then declined
and even disappeared as a result of the fast changes
that were occurring.
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER CONCEPTS
 Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Tool

Word Processing- Commercial evolution


 Perhaps the best example of a company that became
very successful on the back of specialized word
processing systems was Wang Computers but then
collapsed when it lost its revenue from word
processing systems and was not able to substitute
newer forms of computing quickly enough.
 Olivetti is another company that struggled to
migrate from mechanical typewriter devices to
word processing systems and then to PC
computing.

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