Word processing offers several advantages over typewriters including the ability to edit text, add images, change font styles and formatting, save work, and copy and paste. Formatting options allow changing font size, style, color, and alignment. Word wrap and search/replace functions help format long documents. Spell check identifies misspelled words while grammar check highlights grammatical errors. Standard paragraphs and mail merge allow reusing text and linking databases to documents.

1. WORD PROCESSING By CRAIG THOMSON

2. Advantages of Word Processing Over A Typewriter You can edit text. You can add images to a document. Change font style, size and colour. Save work. You can also copy and paste.

3. Formatting Font By formatting a piece of text you can; Change size Change font Change the alignment (left, centre, right, justify) Change colour of font Underline and make text bolder.

4. Word-Wrap, Search and Replace Word-Wrap If typing a really long word and there is not enough space on the line, then it will automatically move the whole word to the next line. Search and Replace If you want to change a certain word in a document a multiple number of times then you would use search and replace, search and replace looks for the word you want to change and replaces it with a word of your choice, Example, violin to fiddle

5. Spell Checker, Grammar Check Spell Checker A spell checker works by comparing the typed word to words in the computer’s internal dictionary, any word it does not recognise will have a red line under it. Grammar Check Grammar check works by highlighting sentences with grammatical errors.

6. Standard Paragraphs, Mail merge Standard Paragraphs A 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. Mail merge Mail merge is the process in which you link fields from a database to a standard letter.