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| BCC | Blind Courtesy (or Carbon) Copy. A way to send an e-mail message to more than one person without other people knowing who it was sent to |
| binary code | the most basic language a computer understands composed of a series of 0s and 1s; computer reads code to form numbers, letters, punctuation marks and symbols |
| CC | Courtesy Copy. A way to send an e-mail to a person other than the main recipients |
| Central Processing Unit | the brain of the computer |
| clip art | graphics that can be cut and pasted electronically into documents; can be photos, illustrations, maps, etc. |
| cyberspace | slang for the Internet |
| desktop publishing | production of publication-quality documents using a personal computer in combination with text, graphics, and page layout programs |
| drive | any device that reads and writes information |
| fonts | sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes |
| footer | information on the bottom of a document that repeats on every page |
| hard drive | another name for the hard disk that stores informatin in a computer |
| header | information on the top of a document that repeats on every page |
| highlight | to click and drag the mouse over information in a document |
| insert | to put an object into a document |
| keyword searching | used to locate information in a database or on the Internet |
| password | a code word of letters and/or numbers that allows a user to gain access to a secured system or piece of information |
| save as | used the first time an item is saved to add a title and specify location to save to |
| spam | junk e-mail you did not request usually sent to a large number of recipients |
| spell check | checks for spelling errors in a document |
| text box | a free standing box on the page that can be moved more easily than in-line text |
