The beauty of being able to type into a word processor rests primarily in two qualities - the ease with which we can convert our thoughts into a tangible text than can be saved and further manipulated at a later date, and the ease with which we can do that further manipulating. (To my great dismay, too many people think that a third quality, the ability to produce a clean and attractive printed document, is the most important. To my mind this is a waste of what a word processor is really good at.) Once the text has been entered, the further manipulating isn't time dependent. We can change and edit whenever we see fit. It helps to be adept at using the editing tools that a word processor offers, but there's no big rush. Entering text into the word processor, however, is a different story. If we can't do it quickly, it may not be worth doing it at all. If I type so slowly that a thought that I want to save and reflect on at some later date disappears before I can get it into bits, maybe using a pencil is more worthwhile. Many elderly people aren't familiar with a keyboard, and have to hunt and peck for each letter that they want to type. If this hunting and pecking takes too much time, the thought is lost, and there's no text that can be manipulated at a later time. Sometimes I'm far from sure that word processing really is for everybody.