![]() What are Standard Features of Word Processors? Many users found that cloud-based word processors offered enough features to meet their needs, as well as greater convenience, mobility, and collaboration support. They also made it easier for geographically separated teams of people to work together on the same document. While these cloud-based word processors lacked the advanced functionality of software installed on a device, they allowed users to store their documents in a remote data center and access them from any Internet-connected PC or mobile device. The cloud allowed users to do their word processing via a browser-based application. ![]() With the advent of cloud computing in the 2000s, word processing changed again. The current version is Microsoft Word 16 (released in 2016). Image: The first version of Microsoft Word was developed in 1981. One of those WYSISWG word processors, Microsoft Word, became dominant in the 1990s. Over time, however, What You See Is What You Get ( WYSIWYG) word processors that showed users exactly what would print on their final documents became more popular. In the early days of the PC, a word processor called WordPerfect became one of the most widely used applications of any kind. While there are still some standalone word processors in use today, word processing began to move to personal computers in the 1980s. ![]() Over time, the devices acquired more advanced features, such as the ability to save documents on a disk, elaborate formatting options, and spell-checking. The great advantage of these early machines over using a typewriter was that you could make changes without retyping the entire document. The earliest word processors were standalone machines similar to electric typewriters that debuted in the 1960s.
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