Unlike old-fashioned typewriters, text entry, editing and manipulation is facilitated with great speed and efficiency. Words that are typed a keyboard or, in the case of using voice recognition, spoken into a microphone, appear on a monitor.
All text formatting takes place automatically and can been revised under the direction of the user.
For instance, all the text entered into a document will automatically wrap around to the next line - the user does not have to delimit where the sentence begins or ends unless he or she wants to do so. Likewise, all margins, tabs, page sizes default to pre-determined characteristics that are set either by the system, or the user. The user can copy, move and delete text that has been entered into a document, create headers, footers and assign page numbers for each page. When the document is complete or when the user does not want to work on anymore, it can be saved to the retrieved at another time. Microsoft Word contains file management capabilities that are similar to other Windows software applications.