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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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