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Word processing is the art of creating, saving, editing, formatting and printing text and graphic documents using electronic word processors.
Examples of word processors include Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, Lotus WordPro, Apple Pages, OpenOffice.org Writer, etc.
NB: Text editors are simple word processors that are generally used to type without any special formatting.
Text editors are mainly used to create small notes, memos and programs. Examples of common text editors are Notepad, Notepad++, Gedit etc.
PURPOSE OF WORD PROCESSING
Word processors are mostly used for writing letters, reports, projects, books, essays, memos, resumes (CVs) etc.
BASIC TERMINOLOGY
Typeface A typeface is the shape of the characters. Some common typefaces are Times New Roman, Arial, and Tahoma.
Line Spacing refers to the amount of vertical white space between two lines of text, from baseline to baseline. Line spacing is measured in points.
Text Alignment refers to the way lines of text are arranged relative to the edges of a block of text. There are four types of alignment: left, centre, right, and justify. Justification is the process of aligning text in a document to both the left and right margins at the same time. Justified text may have extra spaces between letters within words, so that paragraphs appear as a block with an even right-margin ending.
Indent: An indent is the amount of white space set in between the margin and the beginning of text. Examples of indents include the first line indent, hanging indent and right indent.
Formatting Text Formatting text is the process of changing the appearance of text in a document. Formatting text involves using commands like bold, italics, underlining, changing font colour, etc.
Editing text: This refers to the process of making changes to the content of an existing document. Editing text involves commands like cut and paste, overtype, undo, insert, and delete.
Copy – To place selected text on the clipboard, without removing it from its current location.
Cut – To remove selected text from its current position and place it on the clipboard.
Copy and paste duplicated text, while Cut and paste move text to a new location.
The clipboard is an area of memory in which you can store copied or cut text, graphics or any other items temporarily before being pasted into other locations.
The paste special feature helps to avoid pasting text with all its formatting. The paste special feature provides more control over what to paste.
Header – The header refers to text that appears in the top margin of all pages in a document.
Footer – The footer refers to text that appears in the bottom margin of all pages in a document.
Ruler – You can use the ruler to set the indent, margin and tab markers. Avoid using the space bar to align text!
Tabs Stops – tab stops are places where text can be made to line up. You can set a tab stop by clicking on the ruler bar at the desired position.
Hard Copy – A copy of a document printed out on physical paper.
Soft Copy – A copy of a document that is stored on a disk or other computer storage device.
Overtype Mode – Also called overwrite mode, causes any characters you type to replace (“overtype”) the characters at the cursor. You can switch between overtype mode and insert mode by pressing the insert key.
Paragraph – The text between one paragraph break and the next. A paragraph break is inserted by pressing the Enter key.
Save – To write the document’s current state from RAM to a storage device.
Proofreading is the process of reviewing a document to ensure the accuracy of its content. Proof reading tools include spelling and grammar check (F7), thesaurus, etc.
COMMON FEATURES OF WORD PROCESSING APPLICATIONS
Word Wrap: this feature automatically sends a word that does not fit within the margin settings onto the next line, without the user pressing Enter key.
Find: allows the user to locate all occurrences of a particular character, word or phrase.
Replace: allows the user to substitute existing characters, words or phrases with the new ones.
Spell checker: allows the user to check spellings of the whole document at one time or to check and even correct the spelling of individual words as they are typed (Autocorrect)
Grammar checker: this reports grammatical errors, usually by a wavy green line, and suggests ways to correct them.
Thesaurus: suggests alternative words with the same meaning (synonyms) for use in the document.
Mail Merge: This is feature used to create similar letters to be sent to several people. The names and addresses of each person can be merged with one single main document.
Automatic page numbering: numbers the pages automatically in a document
Tables: allow users to organise information into rows and columns.
Multi-columns: arranges text into two or more columns that look similar to newspaper or magazine
Drop cap – Formats the first letter in paragraph to be dropped across two or more lines.
Clip art: refers to pre-made images about various subjects used to illustrate concepts in documents.
Templates: establish the initial document layouts and formats for various document types.
Printing: allows a user to obtain a hard copy of a document from the printer.
Word Count: Establishes the number of words, characters, paragraphs, etc. in a document.
Headers and Footers: Used to insert text in the top and bottom margin through the document.
Footnotes and Endnotes are used as references that provide additional information about a word or phrase within a document.
Insert and Delete allows a user to add and remove portions of text while editing a document
COMMON PARTS OF A WORD PROCESSOR
Title bar—indicates the task currently running. On the right-hand side of the title are the minimize, restore/minimize and close buttons
Menu bar—provides the user with a group of commands that are used to manipulate the document
Tool bars—consist of sets of command buttons for quick execution of frequently used groups of commands.
Document window—this is the working area where the document is created
Status bar—Displays information that the user may need to know such as the current position of the insertion point, progress, edit mode, etc.
ADVANTAGES OF USING ELECTRONIC WORD PROCESSORS AS COMPARED TO MANUAL TYPEWRITERS
Advantages:
NB: MORE POINTS CAN STILL BE GENERATED BASING ON THE FEATURES AND OPERATION OF A WORD PROCESSOR IN COMPARISON TO A TYPE WRITER
DISADVANTAGES OF USING ELECTRONIC WORD PROCESSORS
NB: It is this tangible writing experience free from computer meltdowns or deletions that is saving the typewriter from extinction.
COMMONLY USED WORD PROCESSING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Ctrl- ] or [ Increase/ Reduce Font
Ctrl – Soft hyphen –
Ctrl = Subscript
Ctrl-0 Paragraph Space Above (add/delete 12 pt.)
Ctrl-1 Line-spacing 1
Ctrl-2 Line-spacing 2
Ctrl-5 Line-spacing 1.5
Ctrl-A Select All
Ctrl-Alt-1 Heading Level 1
Ctrl-Alt-2 Heading Level 2
Ctrl-Alt-3 Heading Level 3
Ctrl-Alt-C ©
Ctrl-Alt-E Endnote
Ctrl-Alt-F Footnote
Ctrl-Alt-I Print Preview
Ctrl-Alt-K AutoFormat
Ctrl-Alt-M Insert Comment
Ctrl-Alt-N View—Normal
Ctrl-Alt-O View—Outline
Ctrl-Alt-P View—Page
Ctrl-Alt-R ®
Ctrl-Alt-S Split a window
Ctrl-Alt-T ™
Ctrl-Alt-U Table—remove border lines
Ctrl-Alt-Y Repeat Find
Ctrl-Alt-Z Go Back (3 max)
Ctrl-B Bold
Ctrl-C Copy
Ctrl-click Select Sentence
Ctrl-D Font Dialog
Ctrl-drag Drawing—draw from center
Ctrl-E Align—Center
Ctrl-Enter Break—page
Ctrl-F Find
Ctrl-F10 Maximize window
Ctrl-F4 Close
Ctrl-F5 Document window—restore
Ctrl-F7 Document window—move
Ctrl-F8 Document window—size
Ctrl-G GoTo
Ctrl-H Replace
Ctrl-I Italics
Ctrl-J Justify—Full
Ctrl-K Hyperlink
Ctrl-L Align—Left
Ctrl-M Indent—increase
Ctrl-N New document
Ctrl-O Open a document
Ctrl-P Print
Ctrl-Q Remove Paragraph formats
Ctrl-R Align—Right
Ctrl-S Save
Ctrl-Shift- >or <Font next/ previous size
Ctrl-Shift –Hard hyphen
Ctrl-Shift = Superscript
Ctrl-Shift-8 Nonprinting characters on/off
Ctrl-Shift-A All Caps
Ctrl-Shift-C Copy formatting
Ctrl-Shift-D Double Underline
Ctrl-Shift-Enter Break column
Ctrl-Shift-F Font Face
Ctrl-Shift-K Small Caps
Ctrl-Shift-L List Bullet Style
Ctrl-Shift-M Indent decrease
Ctrl-Shift-N Normal Style
Ctrl-Shift-T Hanging indent decrease
Ctrl-Shift-Tab Dialog box previous tabbed section
Ctrl-Shift-V Paste formatting
Ctrl-Shift-W Underline words only
Ctrl-spacebar Remove Character formats
Ctrl-T Hanging Indent—increase
Ctrl-Tab Dialog box next tabbed section
Ctrl-U Underline
Ctrl-Up/Down GoTo Next/Previous Paragraph
Ctrl-V Paste
Ctrl-W Close
Ctrl-X Cut
Ctrl-Y Repeat/Redo
Ctrl-Z Undo
F1 Help
F10 Menu Bar
F12 Save As
F7 Spelling and Grammar check
F8 Selection extended
F9 Update selected field
Shift-drag Drawing—constrain shape to symmetrical
Shift-drag Graphic—crop
Shift-Enter Line break
Alt Drag Vertical Selection
Shift-F10 Shortcut Menu
Shift-F3 Case change (capitalization)
Shift-F7 Thesaurus
Shift-F8 Selection reduced
THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS MORE ABOUT WORD PROCESSORS
ASSIGNMENT : INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING S.2 ASSIGNMENT MARKS : 10 DURATION : 1 week, 3 days