ABSTRACT
A word processing program works as a partner with the brain’s creative activity. While the word processor shares the typewriter’s ability to render information legible, it is wonderfully forgiving of errors and responds to the mind’s creative spontaneity. For repetitious office correspondence, such as letters to clients or employees that contain a core of standardized information, but must be individually addressed and require other tailoring, the word processor is an ideal tool to crank out the work. With a word processor, just the text that changes needs to be altered; the rest can be left unchanged. The word “interactive” expresses a key computer concept. Potentially useful as computers are, their ability to perform a desired action relies on programmed instructions called software. Programs for writing with a computer fall into two basic categories: text processing and word processing. With most word processing programs, how the move function works.
