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| Formatting Toolbar | displays buttons for accessing common formatting features such as bold, italic,and centering text. |
| rulers | tools used to measure the horizontal width or vertical height of a document |
| screen tip | displays the name of the element on which the mouse pointer is resting |
| insertion point | A blinking vertical line that indicates where typed text will next appear |
| document window | the area where you type document text |
| scroll boxes | a box used with a m0use to shift the on screen display up and down or left and right |
| status bar | displays information about the current document on the screen such as the page number and section. |
| margins | the white space that surrounds text in a document |
| hard copy | a printout of a document on paper |
| soft copy | the document on the screen |
| spell check | a feature of the word program that checks the spelling of words in a document. |
| grammar check | a feature of the word program that points out possible grammatical errors |
| thesaurus | a word feature that displays a list of synonyms and antonyms |
| auto correct | a word feature that automatically corrects common spelling errors as you type |
| caps lock | keyboard key used to toggle uppercase letters with lower case letters. |
| toggle | a command that turns a particular mode on and off |
| select | mark text for editing |
| contiguous | next to or adjacent |
| non contiguous | not next to or adjacent |
| highlight | to apply a colored background to the text to call attention to it. |
| horizontal alignment | the position of text online in relation to the left and right margins left, right , center, justify |
| vertical alignment | the position of text in relation to the top and bottom margins |
| flush | lined up evenly along the edge |
| indent | used to start a paragraph one half inch from the left margin |
| click and type | a word feature that allows a user to click anywhere in a document and begin typing in that location |
| word processing | the process o electronically creating, editing, printing, and storing text documents |
| open a document | the process of retrieving a stored document and making it available in the computers memory for processing |
| save a document | the process o storing a document in the computers memory to disc |
| default | a standard setting or mode of operation |
| view | the way a document is displayed on the screen |
| nominal view | used for most tying, editing and formatting |
| print layout view | displays a document on screen the way it will look when printed. |
| web layout view | wraps text to fit the window the way it would on a web page document |
| outline view | used to create and edit outlines |
| word wrap | a feature that causes text to move automatically from the end of one line to the beginning of another |
| paragraph marks | non printing character inserted in a document to indicate whee a paragraph ends |
| non-printing characters | characters such as paragraph marks and tab symbols that are not printed in a document but can be displayed on the screen |
| font | a complete set of characters on a specific face, style, and size |
| font size | the height of an uppercase letter in a font set |
| undo | the command for reversing a previous action |
| redo | the command for reversing the undo command |
| title bar | displays the program and document name |
| menu bar | displays the names of menus |
| standard tool bar | displays buttons for accessing common features and commands such as saving, opening, and printing |
