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Unit-3: OFFICE TOOLS
WORKING WITH 3
WORD PROCESSOR
Written information is more authentic and proficient than other modes of communication.
Writing involves composing of text and composed text materials that serve as a medium of
valuable ideas and expression.
Imagine a situation where we are creating documents, it would be tedious and lengthy task to
do the following operations manually with the help of a pen and a paper:
l Preparing a document that has large number of papers.
l Editing and changing some contents after the writing work is over.
l Removing some contents of the document and inserting them at some other place in the
document.
l Changing the width (side wise) of the page margins of the document.
l Adding pages and inserting page numbers instantly in the whole document.
l Doing the corrections of the spellings and grammar of text contents of the document.
l Searching a particular word or phrase in the document and replacing it with the other.
All such tasks can be done in a traditional way but that will take a lot of time and energy. Such
tasks or written work can be created in a much organised manner and can be easily handled
when typed in a computer with the help of a Word Processing package.
INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING
A word processing package is an application software that helps type text and create documents.
It also helps in editing, formatting and printing documents. Modern word processing software
provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI). They also support the What-You-See-Is-What-You-
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