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UNIT                                                            Digital


                    3                                                  Documentation









                        Topics Covered                                                                          95%

                         Typewriter                                         Word Processor
                         What is LibreOffice?                               Create a New Document
                         Save a Document                                    Close a document
                         Open an Existing Document                          Cursor Movement
                         Non-Printing Characters                            Undo and Redo
                         Cut, Copy and Paste the Selected Text              Selecting the text
                         Find and Replace                                   Jumping to a given page number
                         Spell Check and Grammar Check                      Thesaurus and Synonyms
                         Formatting a Document                              Formatting the Text
                         Formatting a Paragraph                             Formatting a Page
                         Creating and Working with Tables                   Printing a Document
                         Mail Merge


                 A document is a written, printed or digital information available in a specific format. A process of making and maintaining
                 a document is called documentation. Earlier formal official or legal documents were made using manual or electronic
                 typewriters but with the time they were replaced by computers. Computers have word processing software to create,
                 edit, format and print documents.
                 A person  with  good  typing  skill  and  knowledge of  a word  processor can  work as  a data entry operator in  many
                 government or private organisations. This chapter will introduce you to commonly used word processors and their
                 important features.
                 With the development of computers in the 1970s, people slowly shifted from typewriters to computers that were
                 supporting word processor for creating and editing documents. Within a few years, after this, the falling prices of PCs
                 made word processing available, for the first time, to the common people in the offices and at home.



                           The term “word processing” was given by a German IBM typewriter sales executive,
                           Ulrich Steinhilper, in the 1950s.




                         TYPEWRITER

                 A typewriter is a machine used for writing by pressing keys that print letters on paper. It was popular for typing
                 documents before computers were common.

                 Limitations of Using a Typewriter

                 The typewriters were replaced by word processing software after a few years due to several limitations, as listed below:
                 •  There is no concept of undo. Which means a simple typing error or spelling error will make you change the whole
                   sheet and type again the whole content.




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