The advanced word processors are called full-featured word processors. These word-processors provide additional features to format documents in more sophisticated ways. Following are some important features of an advanced word processor.
File management.
An advanced word-processor contains file management capabilities. It can be used to create, delete, move and search files.
Font specification
The appearance of text in the document is called font or typeface. Full-featured word processor can change the font of all or selected text to improve readability. Fonts are used to create the text of different styles and sizes. The user can specify bold, italic and underline.
Graphics
Full-featured word processor is used to insert images and graphs in a document. Some word processors also provide the facility to create images. Some word processors only provide the facility to insert images created in different programs.
Header, footer and page numbering
Full-featured word processor provides header and footer feature. Header is the text that is added to the top of every page. It may include document title or page number. Footer is the text that is added at the bottom of the every page.
Spell checker
Spell checker features in full-featured word processor help the user to correct any spelling in the document. The misspelled words are highlighted.