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Most people are familiar with word processing packages such as Microsoft Word or Writer (part of the Open Office suite).

Standard features

All word processing applications allow you to:

• enter and edit text
• save
• print
• cut/copy/paste
• check your spelling

Cut, copy, and paste

Cut and copy work in a similar way. Highlighting a piece of text, right-clicking and selecting copy/cut will store the text in memory. The difference is that copy leaves the highlighted text behind whereas cut removes it. To insert the copied/cut text into a different area of the document, a different document, or an entirely different application altogether, right-click and select paste.

The use of cut, copy, and paste is not necessarily limited to text.

Text formatting

Formatting text makes a document easier to read. You can:

• change font type and size
• change the alignment of text (left, centre, right or justified)
• bold text
• underline text
• italicise text
• create bulleted or numbered lists

Other features

Other features that may be expected include find and replace, which replaces one word with another, and the ability to importgraphics, eg from a clip art library. Headers and footers and page numbering are also very useful.