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| Alignment | How text is positioned between the margins |
| Ascending order | A to Z for letters or smallest to largest for numbers |
| AutoComplete | This feature guesses certain words you are keying from the first few letters and then suggests the entire word. |
| AutoCorrect | A feature that automatically corrects errors as you type. |
| AutoFormat as you type | Word automatically applies built-in formats to text as you type. |
| Automatic Grammar Checking | Checks your document for grammatical errors. |
| Automatic Spell Checking | Identifies misspellings and words that are not in Word's dictionary by underlining them with a wavy red line immediately after you key them. |
| AutoText | Using this feature you can store frequently used text, such as a name, address, or slogan, so you don't have to rekey it each time. |
| Bullets | Any small character that appears before a listed item. |
| Bullets & Numbering | A feature that allows the user to create bulleted or numbered paragraphs. |
| Case | It refers to whether letters are capitalized or not. |
| Click and type | A useful feature that you can use to quickly insert text or other items into a blank area of a document. |
| Clip Art | Pictures and drawings that can be inserted into a document. |
| Clipboard | A temporary storage place in memory. |
| Columns | Appear vertically in a worksheet and are identified by letters at the top of the worksheet window. |
| Copy | Copies text or graphic from a document and places it on the clipboard. |
| Copy & Paste | A method of copying text or a graphic |
| Cut | Deletes text or graphic from a document and places it on the clipboard. |
| Cut & Paste | A method of moving text or a graphic. |
| Descending order | Z to A for letters or largest to smallest for numbers. |
| Desktop Publishing | Using graphics and page design programs for publishing purposes. |
| Document | A written or printed paper that contains information. |
| Double Spacing | This has a full blank line between each line of text. |
| Double-clicking | Clicking the left mouse button twice rapidly |
| Drag and Drop | A quick method to copy or move text a short distance. |
| Edit | To add, delete, or modifiy text or other elements of a file. |
| Find and Replace | Useful editing commands that let you find specific words in a document and replace them if you wish. |
| Font Size | Determined by measuring the height of characteres in units called points. |
| Font Style | Certain standard changes in the appearance of a font. |
| Fonts | The appearance of a character distinguished by typeface and size. |
| Format | The way text appears on a page. |
| Formatting Toolbar | Contains buttons for changing character and paragraph formatting, such as alignment and type styles. |
| Graphics | A line, circle, or box that has been created, or an image or illustration that is imported into the publication. |
| Hanging Indent | The first full line of ext is followed by indented lines. |
| Headers & Footers | The same text appearing at the top or bottom of every page or every other page in a document. |
| Icons | Small pictures to remind you of each button's function. |
| Indent | A feature that sets a temporary left or right margin for paragraph text. |
| Insertion Point | It shows where text will appear when you begin keying. |
| Landscape Orientation | Documents are wider than they are long |
| Line Spacing | The amount of space between lines of text. |
| Margins | The distance between the edge of the text in the document and top, bottom, or side edges or the page. |
| Menu | List of options from which to choose. |
| Menu Bar | Located directly below the title bar, contains menu titles from which you can choose a variety of word processing commands. |
| Merge | A feature that combines a data document with a main document to mass-produce personalized letters or other documents. |
| Nonbreaking Hyphen | Use this if you want to make sure that text separated by a hyphen doesn't divide over two lines. |
| Optional Hyphen | Use this if you want to control where a word or phrase breaks if it falls at the end of a line. |
| Overtype Mode | The text you key replaces existing text. |
| Page Break | The location in a document where one page ends and another begins. |
| Paste | Procedure that retrieves text or graphic from the clipboard and allows the user to place it in another location in a document. |
| Point Size | Measures the height of characters. |
| Points | Height of characters in units. |
| Portrait Orientation | Documents are longer than they are wide |
| Right-clicking | Clicking the right mouse button one time. |
| Ruler | Located beneath the toolbar, you can quickly change indentions, tabs, and margins. |
| Scroll Bars | Located at the bottom and right sides of the window, allows you to move quickly to other areas of the document. |
| Selecting | Highlighting blocks of text |
| Shift-clicking | Holding down the shift key while clicking the mouse |
| Single Spacing | The default line spacing in Word. |
| Sorting | Arranges a list of words in ascending or descending order. |
| Standard Toolbar | Located below the Menu bar, contains buttons you can use to perfrom common tasks, such as printing and opening documents. |
| Status Bar | Located at the bottom of the window, it tells you what portion of the document is shown on the screen and the location of the insertion point, as well as displays the status of certain Word features. |
| Table | A series of columns and rows in which data is entered, formatted, and organized. |
| Tabs | It marks the place where the insertion point will stop when you press the Tab key. |
| Taskbar | Located at the bottom of the screen. It shows the Start button, and all open programs. |
| Template | A designed and formatted document on which new documents are based. |
| Thesaurus | A feature that provides the user with synonyms for selected words. |
| Title Bar | Located at the very top of the screen it is where the names of the program and the current file are located. |
| Triple-clicking | Clicking the left mouse button three times rapidly |
| View Buttons | Located at the lower left corner of the document window, it allows you to quickly change views. |
| Wavy Green Line | Indicates a possible grammar or spacing error. |
| Wavy Red Line | Indicates a possible spelling error. |
| Word Art | Text created as a graphic image. |
| Word Processing | A software application that users a computer and software to create, edit, and print text-based documentation such as letters, reports, and memos. |
| Word Wrap | A feature that automatically advances text to the next line without pressing the Enter key. |
