| A | B |
| bold | heavier typestyle used for emphasis and appearance |
| characters | the letters,numbers, or symbols that appear in a document |
| clip art | a collection of pictures files that can be inserted into a document |
| copy | to make a duplicate of highlighted section of a document |
| cursor | the blinking line that represents your location in the document |
| cut | to remove a highlighted section of a document |
| editing | changing or making corrections in the document |
| file | a word processing document |
| font | a specific design for a complete set of letters, numbers, and symbols |
| hard copy | the printed copy |
| highlighting | the method of selecting a portion of the text hy holding down the mouse button and dragging over the text |
| italics | typestyle that is evenly slanted towards the right for emphasis and appearance |
| line spacing | the vertical distance between lines of text |
| paste | this function is usually used in conjunction with cut or copy |
| print | to make a hard copy of a document |
| save | to store a file on a disk or the computer |
| spell check | tool that checks for misspellings in the document |
| text | the words in the document |
| thesaurus | tool that is used to find words with a similar meaning |
| underline | a horizontal line used for emphasis |