Word Processor and it's benefits|Ms word

Concept of Word Processor

Word processor is application software that helps in the creation of a document. It facilitates the creation of documents through computerized text editing, formatting, storing, and printing. It allows the user to type text, make corrections without retyping the entire matter, and has the feature to make the text look attractive.

Features of Word Processor

The following are common features of Word Processor software:

Fast operation: Typing text in a Word Processor becomes very fast as there is no mechanical carriage movement associated.

Editing text features: Any type of operations, likewise insert, delete, modify the documents, and undo/redo, find/replace can be performed very easily.

Formatting features: The electronic typed text can appear or insert in any form or style like bold, italic, underline, different fonts, font size, color, and paragraph formatting can be made.

Print design: It provides a print preview, printing area (four sides), no. of copies, paper size, before print to view the document exactly as per the convenience or not.

Mail merge: It is an option used to merge a list of information such as names, addresses, e mail, phone numbers (data source) with the main document.

Some popular word processing Packages

1. Ms word
2. Ms write
3. AmiPro
4. Word star
5. Kingsoft Writer
6. Lotus Notes
7. Lotus Word Pro 
8. Professional Write
9. Ted
10. MultiMate

Uses of a Word Processor

A Word Processor can accomplish the following task:

• To create resumes / bio-data
• Update a blog
• Cover letters.
• World Wide Web Pages.
• Advertisements.
• Newsletter
• Reports writings.
• Annual Reports.
• Brochures.

Ms Word

Microsoft word is a very powerful, advance, and useful word-processing software developed by Microsoft Corporation, USA. It has all kind of word processing facilities like to create, edit, format, save and print a document, to check spellings and grammatical errors, to search for synonyms and antonyms (thesaurus), to work with newspaper columns, tables, to add footnotes and endnotes, page number, special symbols, bookmarks, comments, to insert the picture, objects (e.g. video clips, audio clips).

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