Word processors were developed because computers became very popular
The remington no 1 - invented by american Chritopher Sholes was the first commerical typewriter. Which of the following are true?
Only type capital letters
Was very popular with businesses
Did not need any training to use
Was invented in the 20th century
What improvements to the typewriter made it more popular?
The shift key allowed upper and lower case letters to be typed
Portable models were developed in the early 1900s
Microsoft bought the rights of the typewriter in 1972
It helped women to gain office jobs
IBM made the electromatic electonic typewriter in the 1930s
M Shultz invented the automatic or repetitive typewriter that could produce multiple copies of form letters identical to a hand typed original. How did it work?
A floppy disk stored the information
The typing sequence was recorded onto punched tape
Several typewriters were linked together to make multiple copies
It used special paper that could trace documents and make carbon copies.
IBM invented the 'golfball' typewriter in 1961
when IBM brought out the selectric MT typewriter it was able to edit text for the first time because it used a new technology. what was it?
Punched card
Hard drive
Magnetic tape
Floppy disk
What IBM developed feature replaced the magnetic tape and is in common use today for a variety of other uses?
Magnetic swipe cards
USB sticks
removable keyboard
hard drive
Lexitron and Linolex changed the way that everyone used word processors by adding this device in 1972
big keyboard
mouse
video screen
tape cassette
IBM developed the floppy disk for storing numbers not word processing
The first word processing software was called
Word
Wordstar
Lotus notes
Electric pencil
Microsoft Word was first released for the Apple Mac
which of these are real word processing titles
Microsoft word
Macwrite
Gypsy
Ami Pro
Word Perfect
What features in Microsft word allows you to customise the writing on any document?
Fonts
styles
themes
format painter
Microsoft word is used for a variety of word ❌ tasks because it is very versatile and has more features and many of its competitors. It is not the best at everything but can tackle most tasks involving text.
Word has been translated into more than 100 languages
word has a dictation function to allow typing without a keyboard
Word automatically saves files at fixed time intervals in case of crashes
which of these can be incorporated into a word document
table
chart
picture
text
music
movie
web page
A grammar checker is able to check the ❌ of a document
What would you not use word for?
keeping count of the stock for a big business
making standard letters to send to customers
birthday cards
newsletters
making a CV
