word processors
Document editing software
Word processors are software applications for composing, editing, and formatting text documents.
They replaced typewriters for most writing tasks, offering features like spell-check, copy-paste, and easy revision.
Microsoft Word dominates the category, though Google Docs and other alternatives are widely used.
The term can also refer to the now-obsolete dedicated machines that preceded personal computers: My mother learned to type on a word processor in the 1980s.
- formattingStructuring visual presentation
- font sizeText dimension setting
- microcomputerSmall personal computing device
- grammar checkersSoftware finding language errors
- editorsContent revisers and correctors
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- productivity softwaretask managers, project management, office suites, spreadsheets, calendars
- document editingGoogle Docs, formatting, text editors, undo, redo
- office equipmentprinter, printers, copier, copiers, scanner
- programsprograms, program, software, applications, apps
- accommodationsextra time, double time, time and a half, breaks, rest breaks
- business softwareCRM, accounting, payroll, billing, invoicing
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Tabular data documents
spreadsheet software · Excel · database software · number crunchers · graphics software
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Manual letter formation
pen and paper · stone tablets · typewriters · longhand · pencil and paper
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Software for modifying documents
command line · raw text · markup languages · vi · LaTeX
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