2.1 Word Processing

• Importance of word processing in document production
• Selecting a word processing productivity tool
• Creating a text document: entering, editing and formatting
• Advanced features: styles, headers and footers, tables, mail merge
• Sharing a document

• explain the importance of word processing in document production
• select a word processing productivity tool to be used for document production
• create a text document using word processing productivity tools
• share a document created in a word processing productivity tool
• appreciate the emerging trends in word processing productivity tools

“How can the key features in a word processor be optimised to enhance document production?”

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1. Why word processing changed writing
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   What a word processor does that a typewriter never could, and how to choose one.
2. Formatting a document well
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Styles instead of manual formatting, and the features that make long documents manageable.
3. Entering and editing text
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   The everyday operations: type, select, copy, cut, paste, find, and undo - done on purpose.
4. Character and paragraph formatting
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   What you change for letters, and what you change for whole paragraphs - without fighting the software.
5. Page layout and breaks
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Margins, orientation, paper size and the difference between a new paragraph, a new page and a new section.
6. Tables in a document
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   When a table is the right tool, how to build one, and how to stop it fighting the rest of the page.
7. Images and objects in documents
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Inserting a picture, a caption and a simple shape so they stay with the words they belong to.
8. Headers, footers and sections
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Repeating titles and page numbers the reliable way, including different first pages.
9. Mail merge in practice
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   One letter, one list, many personalised copies - previewed before they waste paper.
10. Reviewing, printing and sharing
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Comments, track changes, a last check, then the right file format for the reader.