What does it do?

Abstract

This chapter, ‘What does it do?’, and the following one, ‘How does it do it?’, could well have been combined into one chapter about the operation of a word processor. They have been written separately for a reason. The casual reader, or one who simply wants to know what a word processor will do, may not want to get bogged-down in command sequences and switch codes. The serious student, who needs to know about the principles of word processor operation, either in preparation for training as a word processor operator or for examination purposes, needs to go a little deeper.