CHAPTER FOUR

WORD PROCESSORS

 Performance objectives

1.       Students should be able to:
2.       Explain the term word processing
3.       State the use of word processor
4.       State examples of word processors
5.       Load and exit word processor
6.       Create, save and retrieve files

UNIT ONE: WORD PROCESSORS

4.1. DEFINITION OF WORD PROCESSOR

Word Processor is a Software package that enables you to create, edit, print and save documents.

4.1.1. Advantages of Word Processing

Some of the advantages of word processors are:
1.       You can edit your document or text without retyping it.
2.       You can customize your documents to suit your taste- text type, text size, text color etc.
3.       Word processors have inbuilt dictionary that checks spellings and grammar. 

4.1.2. Word Processing Packages

The followings are examples of some popular word processor available
1.       Word perfect
2.       Microsoft word
3.       Kingsoft
4.       Openoffice

UNIT TWO: MICROSOFT WORDS

4.2. MICROSOFT WORDS

Microsoft word is one of the commonly used or available word processors in Nigeria. Usually, most computers, especially those that using windows operating
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