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| alignment | the placement of text between the left and right margins; text can be aligned at the left, at the right and in the center |
| editing | changing the text in an existing document |
| font | the design of a typeface |
| font style | attributes, such as bold, italics, and underlining, that are applied to a font |
| footer | information that appears at the bottom of every page in a document in Office documents |
| format painter | formatting tool that allows you to copy the formatting on selected text and apply it to other text |
| formatting | a) the process of preparing a disk so you can write data to and read data from the disk; b) applying certain attributes to text, specifying margins, spacing, and so on; enhancing the text in a document |
| header | information that appears at the top of every page in a document or at the top of every page in a worksheet |
| insertion point | a blinking vertical line that shows your current position in a document |
| leaders | characters that fill in blank spaces between columns of text and/or numbers |
| line spacing | controls the amount of space between lines of text in a document |
| margins | white space around the edge of a page that frames a document |
| points | the standard measurement unit for fonts, approximately 1/72 of an inch; the higher the point size, the larger the font |
| sans serif | fonts that do not have lines at the ends of the strokes of each letter |
| selecting | identifying text by clicking and dragging the I-beam across the text to highlight it |
| serif | fonts that have lines at the ends of the strokes of each letter |
| sizing handles | the small squares surrounding a selected image or piece of art that you drag to resize the image or art |
| styles | pre-designed formatting options that have been saved |
| tab stop | location on the Microsoft Word horizontal ruler that tells the insertion point to stop when the Tab key is pressed |
| table | an arrangement of information in rows and columns; primary object in a database that contains the raw data |
| word wrap | word processing feature that wraps text to the next line when it reaches the right margin |
