Although there is now a large body of literature on the role which computers can play in neurorehabilitation, much of the focus is on improving cognitive skills such as memory and attention. Relatively little has been written about the facility of word-processing which computers offer, despite the fact that this is one of the greatest uses to which personal computers are put in office, educational and home environments. In this article we describe a method of teaching word-processing skills which we have developed for use with brain-injured people, and illustrate its success by means of two short case studies.