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Introduction To Productive Tools

Word processors are productivity software programs used to create text documents. They allow users to enter, format, edit, save and print text-based content. Core features include text formatting, copying/pasting text, checking spelling and grammar, and inserting tables and multimedia elements like images. Popular word processors allow multiple people to collaborate on documents simultaneously. Microsoft Word is currently the most widely used word processor.

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Introduction To Productive Tools

Word processors are productivity software programs used to create text documents. They allow users to enter, format, edit, save and print text-based content. Core features include text formatting, copying/pasting text, checking spelling and grammar, and inserting tables and multimedia elements like images. Popular word processors allow multiple people to collaborate on documents simultaneously. Microsoft Word is currently the most widely used word processor.

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Introduction to

Applied
Productive
Tools
Group 7
Short BACKGROUND
PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS or also known as
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE are programs that are
used to create new information such as text
documents, charts, graphs, tables, and
presentations.

Here are some of the most commonly


used productivity tools.
WORD PROCESSOR
is a program that is
used to create, view, edit
and print documents. It is a
digital version of typewriter.
SPREADSHEET
is an application tool that store,
organize, and calculate data in
tables. They are primarily used to
record keeping task and accounting.

PRESENTATION PROGRAM
is used to design presentations in
the form of slide shows.
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(DBMS)
is a tool for creating, editing,
and managing collections of
information called data bases.

GRAPHICS SUITE
is a group of programs that are
used to view, manipulate, and print
computer graphics. Popular examples
are Corel and Adobe.
WORD PROCESSORS
Sometimes abbreviated as WP, a word processor is a
software program capable of creating, storing, and printing
typed documents. Today, the word processor is one of the
most frequently used software programs on a computer,
with Microsoft Word being the most popular word processor.
Word processors can be used to create multiple types of files,
including text files (.txt), rich text files (.rtf), HTML files (.htm &
.html), and Wordfiles (.doc & .docx). Some word processors can also
be used to create XML files (.xml).
HISTORY
The term word processing
was invented by IBM in the late
1960s. By 1971 it was recognized by
the New York Times as a "buzz
word“.

IBM defined the term in a broad and vague way as


"the combination of people, procedures, and equipment
which transforms ideas into printed communications," and
originally used it to include dictating machines and ordinary,
manually-operated electric typewriters. A major
breakthrough occurred in 1976 with the introduction of a
CRT-based system by Wang Laboratories. It displayed text on
a CRT screen, and incorporated virtually every fundamental
characteristic of word processors as we know them today.
HISTORY TIMELINE
FEATURES of STANDARD
WORD PROCESSORS
Below is a listing of some of the most popular features of a
word processor.

1. Text formatting - Changing the font, font size, font


color, bold, italicizing, underline, etc.
2. Copying, cutting, and pasting - Once text has been entered
into a documented it can be copied or cut and pasted
anywhere in the current document or another document.
3. Multimedia - Insert clip art, charts, images, pictures, and
video into a document.
4. Spelling and Grammar - Checks for spelling and grammar
errors in a document.
5. Adjust the layout - Capable of modifying the margins, size,
and layout of a document.
6. Find - Word processors give you the ability to
quickly find any word or text in any size of the document.
7. Search and Replace - You can use the Search and
Replace feature to replace any text throughout a
document.
8. Indentation and lists - Set and format tabs, bullet lists,
and number lists.
9. Insert tables - Add tables to a document.
10. Word wrap - Word processors can detect the edges of a
page or container and automatically wrap the text
using word wrap.
11. Header and footer - Being able to adjust and change
text in the header and footer of a document.
12. Thesaurus - Look up alternatives to a word without
leaving the program.
13. Multiple windows - While working on a document, you
can have additional windows with other documents for
comparison or move text between documents.
14. AutoCorrect - Automatically correct common errors
(e.g., typing "teh" and having it autocorrected to "the").
15. Mailers and labels - Create mailers or print labels.
16. Import data - Import and format data
from CSV, database, or another source.
17. Headers and footers - The headers and footers of a
document can be customized to contain page
numbers, dates, footnotes, or any text of all pages of the
document or specific pages.
18. Merge - Word processors allow data from other
documents and files to be automatically merged into a
new document. For example, you can mail
merge names into a letter.
19. Macros - Setup macros to perform common tasks.
20. Collaboration - More modern word processors can help
multiple people work on the same document at the
same time.
Essential and Processing
Features of Word Processor
• Creating, editing, saving and printing
documents.
• Copying, pasting, moving and deleting text
within a document.
• Formatting text, such as font type, bolding,
underlining or italicizing.
• Creating and editing tables.
• Inserting elements from other software, such as
illustrations or photographs.
• Correcting spelling and grammar.

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