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| Building Block | Frequently used text saved in a gallery, from which it can be inserted quickly into a document. |
| Clipboard | A storage area shared by all Office programs where cut or copied items are stored. |
| Navigation task pane | A task pane that displays an outline of a document’s headings, or thumbnails of a document’s pages, and allows you to jump to a heading or page in the document by clicking it. Also provides content search capabilities. |
| Wildcard Character | A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a search. The question mark (?) represents a single character, and the asterisk (*) represents one or more characters. |
| Font Size | The height (in points) of a collection of characters, where one point is equal to approximately 1/72 of an inch. |
| Font Style | The emphasis placed on a font by using formatting such as bold, italic, underline, or color. |
| Indent Marker | A marker on the horizontal ruler that controls the indentation of text from the left or right margin of a document. |
| Justifying | Making all lines of text in a paragraph or column fit the width of the document or column, with even margins on each side. |
| Line Break | A manual break that forces the text that follows it to the next line. Also called a text wrapping break. |
| Paragraph | In word processing, a block of text of any length that ends when you press the Enter key. |
| Paragraph Formatting | Formatting that controls the appearance of a paragraph. Examples include indentation, alignment, line spacing, and pagination. |
| Paragraph Style | A combination of character formatting and paragraph formatting that is named and stored as a set. Applying the style to a paragraph applies all the formatting characteristics at one time. |
| Point | The unit of measure for expressing the size of characters in a font, where 72 points equals 1 inch. |
| Text wrapping | The way text wraps around an object on the page. |
| Text wrapping break | A manual break that forces the text that follows it to the next line. Also known as a line break. |
| Theme | A set of unified design elements that combine color, fonts, and graphics to provide a professional look for a document. |
