STYLES AND EDITING, CUT, COPY, PASTE

Introduction   

Computer word processing is an operation that helps in preparing and editing any text digitally. Here the software program is used to put desired font styles and editing techniques to prepare a digitally written document.  In this ongoing digital era, computer word processing has a significant role to prepare essential documents in every sector. 

It not only makes the document easily accessible from anywhere rather it helps to add different font styles and helps to follow different referencing styles. Thus having detailed knowledge of computer word processing and different styles and editing techniques is important as it has versatile uses in different industries. 

Discussion 

An overview of style and editing techniques 

Style and editing techniques are very important when the editor or the implementer wants to put a specific idea, feeling, and emotion to the reader of the specific word file or any other document. Style and editing are used to express the vision or any specific idea through writing. Hence style and editing can be described as a pre-defined thought of formatting that is used repeatedly in certain documents. 

There are different styles and editing techniques available in computer word processing software that is highly used to format any document. A style is a combination of color, size, and the specific styles of the font. There are various options available in computer word processing from where the editor can select and set the desired combination of styling. Furthermore, editing is a tool that is used to make any changes in the pre-decided styling combination. Any editing tool in the computer word processing consists of a cut, copy and paste option primarily. It helps to customize the document as per the concern. In an overview, proper style and editing of the document allows to achieve a professional feel and look.

Different tools of styling and editing  

As mentioned earlier style is a combination of preferences of font color, font size, and font style type. For a better understanding, the word styling can be categorized into four sections. These are mentioned as below:

• Paragraph style
• Table style
• Character style

Paragraph style refers to the overall appearance of a text in the whole paragraph. The primary components of the paragraph styling section are line spacing and indents, page break and line break, different types of page borders, and paragraph shading. 

Character styles generally include every specific criterion related to every character in terms of size and color of the font, bold, underline, and italics. Table styles help to insert any table with a specific header row, accent color, and grid lines of the table. These are a basic overview of the most common styling tool in computer word processing. 

Any editing tool generally contains certain features of formatting the text, inserting a hyperlink, removing and editing the links. Apart from this copy and paste any certain character or sentence, adding and editing a table. These are some common areas of editing tools in the computer word processor. 

Significance of styles and editing in computer word processing 

Computer word processing with its different styles and editing tools has immense benefits in word processing to make a file professionally prepared. The computer word process has wonderful tools to attract the reader through a document. With a systematic approach to the style and editing tools, the editor gets the opportunity to design the document by using different features such as formatting, searching, inserting images as per the requirements, and editing. Hence style and editing in a computer word process have immense benefits that are necessary to adapt in this digital era. 

Role of edit and cut in computer word processing 

Edit and cut is a very common tool in computer word-processing operations. The basic role of the edit and cut option is to customize the paragraph or sentence in terms of redoing and undoing any specific action and ‘cut’ is used to remove the certain action and make it back to its original position. 

Role of copy-paste technique in computer word processing 

Copy, paste is the most commonly used tool in computer word processing. It is used in copying any data in the clipboard and further pasting the data in the desired place. 

Different font style lists and their specification 

Computer word processing allows the editor to select and apply different font styles to serve the document in a better visionary way. In most of the word processors, a font styles list is available that gives the editor a wide range of variety. 

There are different styles available in the font styles list among which “Times New Roman”, “Calibri”, “Cambria”, “Arial” are the most common ones. Although these font styles used to come with their specification, the editor can customize the style according to the need at any time. 

Impact of styles and editing in the digital era 

The discussion is about the style and editing of any document through computer word processing hence it is digital. A digital document allows the editor to publish in several digital platforms with easy access, moreover, it is cost-effective at the same time. Hence using the digital style and editing tool in this digital era has immense benefits while in use.

Conclusion 

The study is based on a brief analysis of the computer word process to enlighten the different styles and editing tools available and commonly used in the word processing system. Using digital writing and documentation is necessary to meet the trends of this digital era. Hence this study will be beneficial to give an overview of the same.