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Understanding Word Processors: Features & History

A word processor is a device or software application that allows users to compose, edit, format, and print written material, providing a 'what you see is what you get' experience. Modern features include font application, spell and grammar checking, and HTML exporting. The term originated in the 1960s at IBM's laboratory in West Germany.

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Understanding Word Processors: Features & History

A word processor is a device or software application that allows users to compose, edit, format, and print written material, providing a 'what you see is what you get' experience. Modern features include font application, spell and grammar checking, and HTML exporting. The term originated in the 1960s at IBM's laboratory in West Germany.

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Word processor

Word processors can display documents in multiple font faces, such that "what you
see is what you get" in the printed version.
A word processor is an electric or electronic device, or computer software
application, that, as directed by the user, performs word processing: the
composition, editing, formatting, and sometimes printing of any sort of written
material. Word processing can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques,
sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter. The
term was coined at IBM's Böblingen, West Germany Laboratory in the 1960s. Typical
features of a modern word processor include font application, spell checking,
grammar checking, a built-in thesaurus, automatic text correction, Web integration,
and HTML exporting, among others. In its simplest form, a word processor is little
more than a large expensive typewriter that makes correcting mistakes easy.

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