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| Click and Type | A feature that allows you to double-click a blank area of a document to position the cursor in that location, with the appropriate paragraph alignment already in place. |
| Cursor | A representation on the screen of the mouse pointer location. |
| Desktop publishing | A process that creates pages by combining text and objects, such as tables and graphics, in a visually appealing way. |
| Dialog box launcher | On the ribbon, a button at the bottom of some groups that opens a dialog box with features related to the group. |
| Draft view | A document view that displays the content of a document with a simplified layout. |
| Drag-and-drop editing | A way of moving or copying selected text by dragging it with the mouse pointer. |
| Dragging | A way of moving objects by pointing to them, holding down the mouse button, moving the mouse pointer to the desired location, and releasing the button. |
| File format | The structure or organization of data in a file. The file format of a document is usually indicated by the file name extension. |
| Header | A line, or lines, of content in the top margin area of a page in a document, that typically contain elements such as the title, page number, or name of the author. |
| Keyboard shortcut | Any combination of keystrokes that can be used to perform a task that would otherwise require a mouse or other pointing device. |
| Landscape | The orientation of a picture or page where the width is greater than the height. |
| Live Preview | A feature that temporarily displays the effect of applying a specific format to the selected document element. |
| Margin | The blank space outside the printing area on a page. |
| Object | An item, such as a graphic, video clip, sound file, or worksheet that can be inserted into a document and then selected and modified. |
| Orientation | The direction—horizontal or vertical—in which a page is laid out. |
| Outline view | A view that shows the headings of a document indented to represent their level in the document’s structure. You can also use outline view to work with master documents. |
| Paragraph | In word processing, a block of text of any length that ends when you press the Enter key. |
| Portrait | The orientation of a picture or page where the page is taller than it is wide. |
| Print Layout view | A view of a document as it will appear when printed; for example, items such as headers, footnotes, columns, and text boxes appear in their actual positions. |
| Quick Access Toolbar | A small, customizable toolbar that displays frequently used commands. |
| Ribbon | A user interface design that organizes commands into logical groups, which appear on separate tabs. |
| ScreenTip | A note that appears on the screen to provide information about a button, tracked change, or comment, or to display a footnote or endnote. |
| Selecting | Highlighting text or activating an object so that you can manipulate or edit it in some way. |
| Selection area | An area in a document’s left margin in which you can click and drag to select blocks of text. |
| Status bar | A row of information related to the current program. The status bar is usually located at the bottom of a window. |
| Tab | A tabbed page on the ribbon that contains buttons organized in groups. |
| Thumbnail | A small representation of an item, such as an image, a page of content, or a set of formatting, obtained by scaling a snapshot of it. |
| View Shortcuts toolbar | A toolbar located at the right end of the status bar that contains tools for switching between views of document content and changes the display magnification. |
| Web Layout view | A view of a document as it will appear in a Web browser. In this view, a document appears as one long page (without page breaks), and text and tables wrap to fit the window. |
| Word Help button | The button located at the right end of the ribbon and labeled with a question mark (?), that provides access to the Word Help system. |
| Word processing | The writing, editing, and formatting of documents in a program designed for working primarily with text. |
| Word wrap | The process of breaking lines of text automatically to stay within the page margins of a document or window boundaries. |
