Part - I Introduction to Word Processor

Part - I Introduction to Word Processor . An introduction to Word Processor Word processor is a computer software to create, edit, manipulate, transmit, store and retrieve a text document. The above said activities are called as “Word Processing”. In other words, Word processing is an activity carried out by a computer with suitable software to create, edit, manipulate, transmit, store and retrieve text documents. There are many word processing software available as proprietary source as well as open source. The familiar word processing packages are given in the following Table . given below. Table . – Word Processing softwares Proprietary source Word processing software Open Source Word processing software Package Developer Package Developer Microsoft Word Microsoft Corporation OpenOffice Writer Apache WPS Word Kingsoft Libre Office Writer The document foundation WordPro Lotus Corporation Abiword Abisource Tamil Word Processors Tamil OpenOffice writer, Tamil LibreOffice Writer, Kamban . , Mentamizh2017 – these are familiar word processors exclusively for Tamil Language. Microsoft also provides full Tamil interface for all office suite. In this chapter, you are going to learn about a word processor (OpenOffice Writer). . An Introduction to OpenOffice Writer OpenOffice is the leading open- source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and much more. It is available in many languages and works on all computers. It stores all your data in an International open standard format and can also read and write files from other office software packages. OpenOffice is easy to learn. OpenOffice is a productive office suite with a collection of different software packages such as • OpenOffice Writer - Word Processor to create text documents • OpenOfficeCalc - Spreadsheet to create worksheets • OpenOffice Base - Database • OpenOffice Impress - Presentation software