Word Processing

Word Processing

What is word processing?

Word Processing

is the creation, editing and printing of documents.

Advantage

The advantage of using a word processor is that documents can be combined and edited without having to retype!

Word Processing

Allows us to add shapes, tables, charts and images to documents easily!

Word Processors have a variety of uses:

Journalism
Publishing
Literacy arts

Home
Business
Education

We can modify text to suit our document style!

Word processing has many advantages, and once the basic skills are accomplished, document creation can become very creative!

Word Processing

Begin with font manipulation and move on to images, word art, tables, and charts.
As you become more familiar with the software, you will discover more advanced options such as mail merge.

Word
LibreOffice Writer
Google Sheets
WPS Office
Pages

Examples of Word Processors

MS Word

Word is used for a variety of purposes, including composing text, creating documents, formatting text, and creating tables and diagrams.
It also supports a wide range of fonts and colors, as well as advanced formatting features such as headings, subheadings, lists, and tables.
There is the mobile version, desktop version and online version.

Google Sheets

Google Docs is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.

LibreOffice Writer

LibreOffice Writer is a free and open-source office productivity word processing software

Pages

Pages is a word processor developed by Apple Inc. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the macOS, iPadOS and iOS operating systems. It is also available on iCloud on the web.

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the word processer software that we use in class?

• Microsoft Word

• Microsoft Excel

• Microsoft Windows

• Firefox

Fill in the Blanks

What is it called when you create, edit and print documents?

Multiple Select

What are some of the elements that you can create in a word processor? (Choose 3)

• Charts

• Tables

• Paragraphs

• Videos

Multiple Choice

You can always go back and edit your documents.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Which of the following is not a word processor? (Choose 2)

• Word

• Writer

• Excel

• Photoshop