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| Bold | a heavier typestyle used ofr emphasis and appearance |
| Bullets | symbols used at the beginning of each line to highlight a list of terms |
| Characters | letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation marks that appear in a word processing document |
| Clipart | a collection of picture files that can be inserted inot a document |
| Clipboard | a special part of memory that temporarily holds the contents of a cut or copy function |
| Copy | to make a duplicate of a highlighted section of a document |
| Cursor | a blinking line or other mark showing where the next letter or character will be keyed |
| Cut | to remove a highlighted section of a document |
| Default Settings | the format that has been created by the software |
| Editing | changing or making corrections |
| File | a word processing document |
| Folder | a place to store a file |
| Font | a specific design for a complete set of letters, numbers, an symbols |
| Format | the appearance of text on the page |
| Hard copy | the printed copy |
| Hardware | the physical components of the computer system |
| Highlighting | to display in reverse type part of a word or a section of a document |
| Italics | typestyle that is evenly slanted toward the right for emphasis and appearance |
| Line spacing | the vertical distance between lines of text |
| Load or Lauch | to enter a program or file into a computer's memory |
| Paste | to put the clipboard contents into another part of a document |
| Point | unit of measurement of type |
| Print | to make a hard copy of a document |
| Print Preview | a tool that allows you to see what a a document will look like before you make a hard copy: WYSIWYG |
| Proofreading | Checking a doucment for errors |
| Retrieve | to load a file that has been previously saved onto a disk |
| Save | to store a file on diskette or hard drive for future use |
| Search & Replace | Word processing fuction that locates wwords or character strings and allows the user to replace the selected words with a new string |
| Soft copy | display of a document on a computer monitor or screen |
| Software | the applications or programs that instruct a computer what to do |
| Spell Check | word processing tool that compares words in a document to a software-based dictionary to help identify and correct misspellings |
| Text | the words |
| Thesaurus | word processing tool that identifies synonyms for a selected word in a document |
| Typestyle | features such as bold, italics, and underline |
| Underline | a horizontal line used for emphasis |
| Word Processing | creating documents such as letters, memos and reports on a computer with special software. |
| WYSIWYG | What you see is what you get: a description of what happens with print preview. |
