Word Processing Presentation
- 2. the advantages of using word processing over a type writer advantages faster edit documents change font, style & colour change layout print many copies less noise add pictures & sounds disadvantages don’t need to wait on documents equipment costs upgrade software train staff more complicated virus, popups
- 3. formatting font you can change c o l o u r of text font bold , italic , underline alignment (left, right, centre, justify) size
- 4. word wrap & search & replace word wrap automatically creates a new line if a word does no fit. search and replace is a feature to replace a word a number of times in a document, for example Paris to Barcelona.
- 5. spell checker and grammar check spell checker works by comparing the typed word to words in the computer’s internal dictionary, any word it does not recognise it will place a red line. grammar check features works by highlighting sentences with grammatical errors, this will show a green line if not right.
- 6. standard paragraphs & mailmerge standard paragraph is a piece of text that has been typed up, saved to backing storage and inserted into a document a number of times. mailmerge is the process of linking the fields in a database to a standard letter. steps .. - create the standard letter - create the database with fields - merge the fields onto the standard letter - print