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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