What is the difference between a database and word processing?

Answer 1

Authors are far more concerned with the actual content than the layout and will use word processors to produce that content. Desktop publishing is more concerned with layout than with content.

Answer 2

You can personalise e.g your newsletter with images, borders, backgrounds and text and you have complete control over your page layout. Also tools within desktop publishing can help the user to configure the layout, where things are printed in the final design and how things are printed.

Answer 3

Word processing produces text. The term is generally taken to signify more than mere text editing, because a word processor gives the user tools to control many formatting features, such as margin sizes and character formatting (bold, italic, font size, and so on). Some word processing applications allow for more complex operations, such as inserting graphics, spell checking, and automatic indexing.

A database is like a traditional card index. It holds the same kinds of information about a number of items of a similar kind. For example, a database of books in a library will store for each item the title, author's name, and date of publication. Each group of information (about one book) is a record, and the particular kinds of information (title, author) are fields. The entire database is therefore like a table, in which each field is a column and each record a row, but the data can be displayed and printed in very varied ways. The software for compiling a database is a database manager.

Answer 4

The terms can be used interchangeably, word processing goes back to a simple act of adding type onto a page and printing out 1 or 2 copies. Desktop publishing is a newer term and usually encompasses some sort of design, usually from provided templates, a greater knowledge and use of text formatting, often clip art is added. Desktop publishing also infers that a large quantity of the piece will be printed. A company newsletter is an example of Desktop Publishing, A research paper is an example of word processing.

Answer 5

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