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MS Word Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Word Processor | A program that helps people enter, format, and manage text. |
Save | makes a copy, on a disk or the hard drive, of a document that is in main memory |
Open | retrieves a document that has been saved on a disk or the hard disk drive |
Edit | to make changes to the content of a document |
Format | to specify how text will appear in a document |
to copy a document to pages of paper using a printer (hard copy) | |
Clipboard | place in a computer’s memory where text has been cut out of or copied from a document that is stored |
Word Wrap | a feature in a word processor program that automatically moves the word that you are typing to the beginning of a new line if it will extend past the end of the current line |
Cut | to remove a section of text from a document and place it on the clipboard |
Copy | to make an exact copy of a section of text in a document on the clipboard. (Text is not removed from the document.) |
Paste | to copy text from the clipboard to a specified position in a document. |
Justify | to align text with the left-hand, right-hand, or both margins of a page |
Left Justified | text is aligned with the left-hand margin |
Right Justified | text is aligned with the right-hand margin |
Full Justified | text is aligned with both margins |
Center | to place text on a page the same distance from the left-hand and right-hand margins. (Horizontal) |
Indent (tab key) | to space a line or paragraph a certain number of spaces from the left-hand or right-hand margins. |
Double Space | to insert a blank line between each line of text in a document or a section of a document |
Font | the combination of typeface, size, and style of text |
Point | unit used to measure the size of text characters. |
Style | usually refers to one of three styles to print text: boldface, underlined, or italic. |
Ribbon | the set of toolbars with graphical icons grouped by function; gray area shown when click on a specific tab |
Document | the electronic file you create using MS Word |
Auto Correct | automatically makes typographical adjustment and detects typing errors, certain misspelled words and incorrect capitalization as you type. |
Select | to change the appearance of an item by clicking, double-clicking, or dragging across it, to indicate that you want to perform an action on it |