But there is also an ever growing pile of information on your own hard drive: e-mail messages, attachments, word-processing documents, spreadsheets and so on.

The device is a standard reusable flash drive; you can store digital photos, word-processing documents and other files on it.

I mean, anybody can go back and create a word-processing document.

After you have finished scanning, you can connect the pen to a computer and transfer the information into a word-processing document for editing or reference.

So far, the new virus is limited to word-processing documents made in the Microsoft Word program for Windows 95 and other operating systems.

This is counter to conventional documents that can be classified as either a word-processing document or a presentation of slides - but not both.

Different kinds of data files, including music, digital photos, e-mail messages and word-processing documents, are typically scattered around a hard disk.

The text pops into the word-processing document in the same style, regardless of the type face used in the material being scanned.

Or you can drag and drop photos from one screen into a word-processing document on the other.

A. Compared with word-processing documents and other common types of computer files, video from a camcorder does take up a large amount of hard-drive space.