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Unit-3 DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION
DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION: 3
WORD PROCESSOR
Written information is more authentic than other modes of communication. Writing involves
typing & composing text. The composed text materials enable to prepare the documents.
Imagine a situation where we are making documents, it would be lengthy & tedious if we have to
do the following task manually with the help of pen & paper:
Writing text for a document that has a large number of papers.
Editing & changing some content after composing it.
Moving content from one part of the document to another.
Changing the width (sidewise) of page margins of the papers in a document.
Adding new pages in between the pages of the document.
Doing corrections of spellings & checking the grammar of textual contents of the document.
Searching a particular word or phrase in the document and replace it with the other word.
Such tasks can be done in a traditional way also but that would take a lot of time and resources.
A written work or document can be created in a more organised way and can be easily handled
when typed on a computer with the help of a ‘Word Processing’ package.
A word processing package is a kind of software that provides page layout & enables to type text
& create documents and also helps in editing, formatting, modifying, printing and storing the
contents of the document.
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