| A | B |
| Align to guide | a magnetic/like effect that pulls whatever is being lined up to the layout guide. |
| Autoflow | automatically places text not fitting within a text frame into the next available text frame. |
| Background | Area behind text or objects. |
| Bleed | extends beyond a printer’s print area that can be trimmed later. |
| Business information set | information that includes title |
| Content | Text in a publication or graphic. |
| Design grid | A grid of ruler |
| Drop Cap | change the appearance of a paragraph’s initial character. |
| Facing pages/Booklet | A publication containing a series of folds or binds. |
| Foreground | Area of a page where most information is placed. |
| Gutter | The space between columns. |
| Handles | Small |
| Kerning | Adjusts the spacing between character pairs. |
| Layer | Changes the position of objects so that one appears to be on top of or behind another. |
| Leading | Printing term to describe the space between lines. |
| Logo | Distinctive shape |
| Master page | a background area used to create watermark |
| Masthead | The banner at the beginning of a newsletter that contains its name |
| Offset printing | commercial printing technique in which an image is transferred to a rubber roller before it is printed on paper. |
| Overflow Text | Text that does not fit in the frame. |
| Pull Quote | A short statement extracted from the text and set aside from the body of the text. |
| Reverse Text | Displays light characters on a dark background. |
| Rotate | Changes the position of an object in degrees. |
| Ruler Guides | Created in the foreground of individual pages by dragging a ruler while holding shift. |
| Sans Serif | a simple style font such as Arial font |
| Schemes | Gallery of font combinations and color groups. |
| Scratch Area | the gray area that appears outside the publication page. Surrounds the publication and is used to store elements. |
| Serif | style of letters which have short lines stemming from the upper and lower ends of the strokes of a letter. Example Times New Roman font style |
| Shapes | Gallery of geometric forms. |
| Sidebar | Information not vital to a publication which is placed to the side of the regular text. |
| TrueType font | A vector font that prints as seen on a computer screen and can be resized without distortion. |
| Two/Page Spread | View that enables you to see two pages at once. |
| Ungroup | Turns a single object into multiple objects. |
| Workspace | The area where a new or existing publication appears. |