| A | B |
| bibliography | A list of sources, usually placed at the end of a document, that you consulted or cited in creating a document |
| footnote | A printed note, placed below the text on a printed page, used to explain, comment on, or provide references for text in a document |
| mail merge | A feature, which helps users create documents such as letter and e-mails that are essentially the same but contains unique elements such as recipient name, address, city, and state. |
| table of contents | A list of divisions and the pages on which they start. |
| citation | A reference to a published or unpublished source. |
| field | placeholders for information that comes directly from a data file |
| record | a set of information contained in a database |
| data file | umbrella term that covers a whole category of files you work with all the time |
| main document | The document you start with in a mail merge |
| Insertion Point | the place where text or graphics will appear in the document. It point is the flashing vertical bar that indicates the current position in the document. |
| justification | Justification determines how lines and characters within those lines are printed. With full justification, all lines start at the left margin and end at the right margin. |
| Keep lines together | command to prevent Word from breaking a paragraph between pages |
| rows | In a table, a row is a horizontal series of cells |
| columns | In a table, a column is a vertical series of cells |
| scaling | Scaling describes the resizing of a graphic proportionally by width and height |
| symbol font | Symbol fonts contain special characters that are not part of the alphabet. A common example of a symbol font is Wingdings |
| Widow/Orphan Control | command to prevent Word from placing the last line of a paragraph at the top of a page (widow) or the first line of a paragraph at the bottom of a page (orphan). |
| clipboard | a holding place in a computer's memory where data is stored after you use the Cut or Copy command |
| Triple-click Selections | will select the entire paragraph in which it appears |
| Sizing handles | eight small, black squares that appear at each corner and along the sides of a selected graphic |