Understanding Documents
Documents are files that you create or edit yourself. The four examples shown here are the basic document types that you can create using the programs that come with Windows 8.
A Text Document
A text document is one that includes only the characters that you see on a computer keyboard, plus a few others; see the “Insert Special Symbols” section in this chapter. A text document contains no special formatting, such as colored text or bold formatting, although you can change the font. In Windows 8, you normally use the Notepad program to create text documents, although you can also use WordPad.
A Word-Processing Document ...
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