Describe with Technology : Narrative Writing and Critical Thinking
Word Processing
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Word Processing
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Task: Describe five actions you can select from the menus of a word processing application’s graphical user interface.  

Goal: Explain how you can use these five actions to write your narrative essay.

You may want to review an example of a menu identification before you begin.

See the example:
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Key Concept
What is a word processing application? It is a software program used to create documents. You have probably used one many times. Have you ever thought about how it works? Have you ever thought about how documents were created before computers?

Before computers, the only way to create a document was by hand, with a typewriter, or on a printing press. Making any changes to a document was a lot of work. If you made a mistake, you often had to start all over. Even a small mistake was a really big deal!

The first word processing applications made changing a document quicker and easier than it was before. If you made a mistake, all you had to do was delete it and retype. You could also move text around whenever and wherever you wanted. However, with the first word processing applications, you could only work with text and create simple documents. Modern word processing applications can create complex documents and contain many types of multimedia.

Are you getting the most out of your word processing application? Unless you know how it works, you probably are using only a few of its tools. The more you know about how the application works, the more you can do with it. 

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