About Word Processors

Word Processors are now a thing of the past or almost obsolete as far as hardware is concerned . It was mainly used after the era of the typewriter and before the computer age. I remember my aunt worked for Brothers ( manufactory of word processors, electronics, etc) in Bartlett when i was about seven and i thought it was the most fascinating place and now you can hear the words "word processor" and the response is "What's that". It is now built in to the computer system in the forms of Microsoft Word and Word Perfect. You can learn more about the history of word processors at http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/book/wordprocessor/word.html Alandria Williams

It's interesting to read this as I was an original DOS based user of word processing software. I stared with the first version of WordPerfect and kept going before Windows came about and you started using Word. I hated Word when I started using it. I was used to using control f or a function key like F5 to underline or what have you. I was a typist and it was much quicker then to type and use the keyboard for special features than it was to stop and use the mouse. But as we all must with growing and changing technology I have adapted. I don't know what I would do without my computer now! :) Dina Francisco

I may be showing my age, but I do not remember physical word processors nor DOS versions of word professors. I am barely old enough to remember DOS, so I am a Microsoft Word gal through and through. I've learned a lot of the short cut commands, and now I can fly through whatever work I have to do- I use it daily at work and for school. I love the fact that the program now includes a Spanish and French grammar and spell-check because I was a Spanish major and a French minor in my undergrad, and this feature came in handy often. The one downfall that I see in Word is that because of my daily use with it, I do not spell that well. It has the autocorrect function for a lot of misspelled words, and the ones that it can't correct on its own, it highlights so that the user can review it. Spelling is something that I have to work hard at, and if I'm writing a hand-written note and am unsure how to spell something I quickly type it into Word to see the proper spelling. Here is more info on how to use Microsoft programs in your lesson planning, if you want to check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.mspx I actually used this site this week to help me with the assignment! -Alyssa Kovach