Untitled Word Processing Tammi Bosko University of San Diego Word processing is one of the most common applications for computers today. Word processing is the use of a computer program to write, edit and print a document. It is an application of software that focuses on the ability to handle text. Word processing software can produce a variety of documents including letters and manuals. Text is entered using a keyboard like that of a typewriter, but word processing has many advantages over typewriters.
Word processing allows the user to revise text without retyping an entire document.
When the text is entered or after it has retrieved from a file, anything from words and sentences to paragraphs and pages can be moved, copied, deleted, altered, and added to when it is displayed on the computer screen. Today's word processors make it possible for just about any person to communicate effectively in writing. The success of word processing is related to the easiness of changing and manipulating documents and from the reduced time it takes to create documents. Word processing is a tool that everyone should take advantage of.