What is word processing?; what can word processing do?; how does word processing work?; the word processing environment; how to start word processing; gaining experience; managing the WP system; word processing pitfalls; WP knowledge, skills and aptitudes. Assignments: correcting common errors; keying in text, paragraphing, making simple amendments, printing out; setting margins, emboldening, underlining, right-hand justification, printing out, adjusting margins; setting tabs, keying in tabulated work, altering tabs, storing work on disk (if not done automatically); recalling a document from disk, making an amendment, saving the amended version; using indented paragraphs, printing out on headed paper, printing an envelope or label; centring, using flush right facility, using temporary storage facility (buffer memory); moving blocks of text, global search and replace, automatic page numbering.
