Word processing

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Word Processing For those who may be a little uncertain as to precisely what word processing entails, the answer can be put in a nutshell - the most basic word processor is a typewriter. So what is all the fuss about? A word processor performs all the functions of a typewriter, but also does a great deal more. A word processor may be an office machine in its own right with a large range of special facilities, but frequently (and certainly for the situations covered by this book) it will be an ordinary micro operated with a work processing program and almost essentially provided with a printer. The major difference between the word processor and the typewriter is that the former has a substantial memory and the ability to display it, so that text which is keyed in (typed) can be seen before being printed. The text can be corrected on the screen, centred, and words or paragraphs inserted or deleted, etc.

Then the text can be printed off as many times as desired, or one copy can be printed and then subsequent changes made before more copies are run off.

What can the word processor do for children? When children write by hand they often do a rough outline first, which is then modified and corrected; the changes involving words, lines or larger items of text. Adults often go through the same process, producing a rough draft, editing it and then writing it out again.

A word processing program for a micro is provided on tape and loaded from the cassette recorder in the usual way. ( in some versions the word processing program is available as a special ROM - a chip which has to be fitted inside the computer; use of a disc drive can also be...