CSCI 1200 / ASSC 1000

Chapter 5

Productivity Applications

Word Processing

• entering

• editing

• formatting

• proofreading

• saving

Terminology

• WYSIWYG

• word wrap

• cut & paste

• clipboard

Fonts & Formatting

• Font Face

• Point Size : 72 pts = 1 inch

• Serif vs. Sans Serif

• Monospaced vs. proportional

• Soft fonts vs. Printer fonts

Formatting Paragraphs

• Justification

• Widow / Orphan

• Tabs & Indents

• Paragraph spacing

Formatting Documents

• Headers & Footers

• Page Numbering

• Style Sheets

• Auto format, hyphenate, correct.

Writing Tools

• Outline

• Thesaurus

• Digital Reference

• Spelling Checkers

• Grammar and Style Checkers

More Writing Tools

• Collaboration

• Handwriting

• Speech

• Other tools?

Desktop Publishing

• high quality printed documents.

• books, magazines, brochures, etc.

• Word processors – limited DTP, specialized tools are more power.

• advantages : cost, speed, control, accessibility.

Paperless Publishing

• web publishing.

• ebooks.

• digital paper.

Paperless Publishing

web publishing :

• html – hypertext markup language

• Search engines :– front end– index / database– crawler / bot / index builder– ranking hits.

Paperless Publishing

• Portable Document Format (PDF).

• Copyright Protection.