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“MICROSOFT WORD”
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“NOTEPAD”
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“WORDPERFECT”
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*TYPEWRITERS*
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–>a ‘word processor‘ is an ‘electronic device’ (or ‘computer software application’) that performs the ‘document’-related tasks of...–>
‘composing’
‘editing’
‘formatting’
‘printing’
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(the ‘word processor’ was a ‘stand-alone office machine’ in the ‘1960s’, combining the ‘keyboard text-entry’ + ‘printing’ functions of an ‘electric typewriter’ with a…)
‘recording unit’
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‘tape’
(or ‘floppy disk’)
(as utilized by the ‘wang machine’)
(“what’s this?’ you say)
(“the ‘wang machine’?)
(“THE WANG MACHINE!”)
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(+ a ‘simple dedicated computer processor’ for the ‘editing’ of ‘text’)
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(although ‘features’ + ‘designs’ varied among ‘manufacturers’ + ‘models’…)
(and new features were added as ‘technology’ advanced)
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(‘word processors’ typically featured a ‘monochrome display’ + the ability to ‘save’ documents on ‘memory cards’ (or ‘diskettes’))
(later models introduced innovations such as ‘spell-checking programs’ + ‘improved formatting options’)
(as the more versatile combination of ‘personal computers’ + ‘printers’ became commonplace, and ‘computer software applications’ for ‘word processing’ became popular, most ‘business machine companies’ stopped manufacturing dedicated ‘word processor machines’)
(as of ‘2009’ there were only 2 US companies (‘classic’ + ‘alpha-smart’) which still made them)
(many older machines, however, remain in use)
(since 2009, ‘sentinel’ has offered a machine described as a ‘word processor’, but it is more accurately a ‘highly specialized microcomputer’ used for ‘accounting’ + ‘publishing’)
(‘word processing’ was one of the earliest applications for the ‘personal computer’ in ‘office productivity’, and was the most widely used ‘application’ on ‘personal computers’ until the ‘world wide web’ rose to prominence in the ‘mid-1990s’)
(although the early ‘word processors’ evolved to use ‘tag-based markup’ for ‘document formatting’, most modern ‘word processors’ take advantage of a ‘graphical user interface’ providing some form of ‘what-you-see-is-what-you-get’ (“WYSIWYG”) editing)
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(most are powerful systems consisting of 1 or more programs that can produce a combination of …
‘images’, ‘graphics’, and ‘text’, the latter handled with ‘type-setting capability’)
(typical features of a modern ‘word processor’ include ‘multiple font sets’, ‘spell checking’, ‘grammar checking’, a ‘built-in thesaurus’, ‘automatic text correction’, ‘web integration’, ‘HTML conversion’,”pre-formatted publication projects such as ‘newsletters’ and ‘to-do lists'”, + much more)
(‘microsoft word’ is the most widely used ‘word processing software’ according to a ‘user tracking system’ built into the ‘software’)
(‘microsoft’ estimates that roughly ‘half a billion people’ use the ‘microsoft office suite’, which includes ‘word’)
(many other ‘word processing applications’ exist, including
‘wordperfect’
(which dominated the market from the ‘mid-1980s’ to ‘early-1990s’ on computers running microsoft’s ‘MS-DOS’ operating system, and still (as of ‘2014’) is favored for ‘legal applications’),
apple’s ‘pages’ application
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(and ‘open source applications’ such as…)
‘openoffice.org writer’
‘libreoffice writer’
‘abiword’
‘kword’
‘lyx’
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(‘web-based word processors’ (such as ‘office online’ or ‘google docs’) are a relatively new category)
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👈👈👈☜*“COMPUTER PROGRAMS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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