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| Business Letter | a letter sent from one company or organization to another; letterhead often used |
| Left bound Report | multipage report; bound or stapled on the left side of the pages |
| Memorandum | written correspondence within the organization that contains guide words |
| Personal Business Letter | a letter that is from an individual to a business or organization |
| Unbound Report | short reports that are prepared without binders or covers |
| Alignment | The way multiple lines of text line up along left, right or both margins. |
| Copy and Paste | feature used to "DUPLICATE" text |
| Cursor | blinking character that shows where the next character will appear |
| Cut and Paste | feature used to "MOVE" text |
| Desktop publishing (DTP) | use of a personal computer as an inexpensive production system for creating typeset |
| Editing | updating a file to correct spelling, layout issues; makes it more appealing |
| Flush left | alignment of text along the left margin, leaving a ragged right margin |
| Flush right | aligning text along the right margin, leaving a ragged left margin |
| WYSIWYG | an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get" |
| Footer | text entered prints in a 'reserved' place at the BOTTOM of every page in a document |
| Formatting | includes margins,font, alignment used and the way that numbers are displayed |
| Hard copy | printed copies of online documents and files |
| Header | text entered prints in a 'reserved' place at the TOP of every page in a document |
| Justification | often is used to refer to full justification, or the alignment of text along both margins |
| Landscape | page layout in which text and/or graphics are printed across the long edge of the page |
| Orientation | The vertical or horizontal setup of the printed page (landscape or portrait) |
| Pointer | on screen symbol, usually an arrow, that shows the current position of the mouse |
| Portrait | default print orientation for a page of text; height of the page is greater than the width |
| Print preview | WYSIWYG; this displays EXACTLY how a file's hard copy will print |
| Spell checker | a feature checks for the correct spelling of words in a document by comparing to a list |
| Tab | used to indent; moves text a set number of places |
| Templates | a premade form that is used to standardize documents. |
| Thesaurus | A feature used to replace words in a document for others words of similar meaning |
| Word processing | using the computer to create, edit, proofread, format, and print documents |
| Word wrap | feature that forces all text to fit within the margins without entering after each line |
