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| AWAM | Adjusted Words A Minute |
| Cursor | Lighted point on a display screen where the next character or space can be entered. |
| Default | Preset controls for margins, line spacing, and tab settings. |
| Desktop | Screen background area on which windows and icons are displayed. |
| Document | Text, especially formatted, such as a letter, memo, table, report, or form. |
| Editing | Arranging, changing, and correcting existing text. |
| Font | Appearance of printed characters; a font consists of the typeface name, style, and size. |
| Format | To arrange a document in the proper style (arrangement, placement, spacing). |
| GWAM | Gross Words A Minute |
| Hard Return | Striking the Return/Enter key manually to force the cursor to advance to a new line. |
| Hyphenation | Divison of words between syllables to achieve a nearly even right margin. |
| Icon | Picture that represnet a command, program, or document. |
| Indent | Feature that sets a tab to serve as a temporary left margin. |
| Justification | Allows text to be aligned at the left and/or right margins or centered. |
| Landscape | Orientation which provides more horizontal work space: Paper size: 11 x 8 1/2. |
| Line Spacing | Number of blank lines between lines of text. |
| Margins | Space on a page to the left and right of a line of text, above and below the first and last line of text. |
| Menu | List of options on a display screen from which operating features are selected. |
| Page Break | Ends a page and begins a new page; inserted automatically (soft); or inserted manually (hard) to force the software to start a new page. |
| Portrait | Orientation which provides a work space taller than wide. |
| Proofreading | Process of comparing copy on a display screen or paper to the original copy and correcting errors; one of the editing steps. |
| Scrolling | Makes room for more lines of copy by causing the first line to "disappear" of the top of the display screen. |
| Soft Return | Computer automatically forces the cursor to advance to a new line. |
| Spell Check | Checks a document for mispelled words against a dictionary included in the software. |
| Tab | Causes the cursor to skip across the display scren to a place set by the operator or default tab settings. |
| View | Displays a page, part of apage, or multiple pages of a document so that the operator can see a document before printing. |
| Word Wrap | Computer automatically forces the cursor to advance to a new line. (Soft Return). |
