Text+Processors

Are the programs/media by which people can organize text information and write it in documents from simple letters to large manuscripts; letting you add images, charts, etc. this in order to improve your presentation. The most common text procesors programs use are Microsoft Word, Open Office.

Text processors include characteristics such as: >mail merging >indices of keywords >table of contents >}tables of figures with caption titles >cross referencing with section or page numbers >footnote numbering >new version of a document using variables

History: The text processors were invented by IBM in the 1960s. In the 1980s with the invention of the laser printer text processors were spread as a typographic application.

Word processors have a different uses that allow them to be used at home in bussiness and education.