What are the Main aspects available in all word processors
- Ability to set page size and page orientation
- Ability to change font size and font style (for example Arial, courier, times new roman, etc.)
- Ability to change margins (top, bottom and sides)
- Page format (for example paragraphs, columns, etc.)
- importing text, graphics and pictures into the document body
- inserting and deleting text
- cut and paste/copy and paste (to prevent need to re-type sections of text or to move/remove text)
- Search and replace based on key words
- Word wrap (for example auto adjust a line to fit into paragraph alignment such as straight margins on left and right, etc.)
- file management (create/delete/move/search for files)
- Headers and footers and automatic numbering of pages
- Graphics (embed drawings and graphs into the document)
- Macros
- merge (merge text files from one file into another e.g. mail merge)
- Ability to send documents to a printer
- carry out a word count on the document
- add and manipulate tables in the main body of the document
- Windows (edit 2 or more documents at the same time)
- WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) - preview document to see how it will look when printed
- spell checkers, language check and thesaurus