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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 this 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, footers, 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 gorups, 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. It also displays the text that will appear if you choose to insert a date or AutoText entry. |
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. This is usually located at the bottom of a window. Not all windows will have one. |
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. They are typically used to provide visual identifiers for related items. |
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. |