Word Processors

Features of Word Processors
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Software on windows: Word  Word Perfect  PDF
Software on: linux  Mac OS  Palm OS

*Wordwrap: automatic arrangement of text in lines of specified length without the necessity of touching the return key.
* Discretionary Hyphenation: option of inserting a hyphen to break a word that endsa line: the hyphen does not print if later editing moves the word to the middle of a line.
* Justification: automatic alignment of text to both the left and right margins.
* Adjustment:realignment of text to new margin and tab settings.
* Alignment: positioning text or numbers to specified margin and tab settings.
* Decimal Alignment: positioning columns of numbers withthe decimal points vertically aligned.
* Indents: the setting of temporary margins within a document differing from the primary margins used.
* Centering text on a line.
* Insertion:the entry of new text within previously typed material without erasing the existing material.
* Overstriking: the substitution of new text for old by typing over the old text.
* Deletion:erasure of text from the screen, or of whole documents from the disk.
* Search and Replace: moving directly to specified words or parts of words within a document and replacing them withdifferent words or word portions.
* Copying or Cutting: the duplication or moving of blocks of text within a document.
* Boilerplate: the separate storage and retrieval of blocks of text fromwhich standard documents can be built.
* Pagination: automatic division of a document into pages of specified numbers of lines.
* Page Numbering: automatic sequential numbering of pages.* Headers and Footers: option of creating standard blocks of text that will automatically appear at the top or bottom of each page in a document.
* Footnoting: automatic sequential numbering...