Word Processing

Introduction to Word Processing

What is Word Processing?

When you are creating a document, you may need to;

• Edit and format text
• Insert and format tables, graphics, charts and objects from other applications
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That is, you need to process the document.

Typing/Inserting editing and formatting text, graphic and other objects is simply termed as "Word Processing".

Applications help you to do these tasks are called as Word Processing Applications.

Word Processing Applications

Today there are two most popular and commonly used Word Processing Applications.

• Microsoft Word
• Open Office—Writer

Microsoft Word runs only with MS Windows environments where Open Office-Writer runs with Open Source Operating Systems like LINUX as well as with MS Windows.

History

History of Word processing goes beyond the age of computer starting form the
typewriter. The term "Word Processor" was first used by the IBM in 1964 in their MT/ST (Magnetic Tape / Electric Typewriter).

In 1969 IBM introduced MagCards (Magnetic Cards) to record, recall and reprint the text once typed.
In: 1970 IBM produced Word Processing Systems using floppy disk for storage. In 1977
the disk Based Word processing applications were introduced.

1^st Word Processing Application for PC is called Easy-Writer. Next, came the Word Star,
the ware Perfect ...etc. and now there are lots of Word Processing Applications in the
world. Those are been developed based on the operating system on which they should
run.

Examples

Easy-Writer, Word Star, Word Perfect, Ability Writer, 
KWord, LyX, Open Office Writer, MS Word.