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| accounting and financial management software | Software especially designed to set up accounts, keep track of money flow between accounts, record transactions, adjust balances in accounts, provide an audit trail, automate routine tasks such as check writing, and produce reports.”
address, |
| agents | Software programs that can ask questions, respond to commands, pay attention to users' work patterns, serve as a guide and a coach, take on owners' goals, and use reasoning to fabricate their own goals.”
automatic correction (autocorrect), |
| automatic formatting | A word processing feature that applies formatting to the text.”
bar chart, |
| bot | Software robots that crawl around the Web collecting information, helping consumers make decisions, answering email, and even playing games.”
camera-ready, |
| cell | The intersection of a row and a column on the grid of a spreadsheet.”
columns, |
| desktop publishing (DTP) | Software used mainly to produce print publications. Also, the process of using desktop publishing software to produce publications.”
electronic book (ebook) , |
| electronic paper (epaper) | A flexible, portable, paperlike material that can dynamically display black-and-white text and images on its surface, as well as erase itself and display new text and images as the reader |
| footer | Block of information that appears at the bottom of every page in a document, displaying repetitive information such as an automatically calculated page number.”
formula, |
| function | A predefined set of calculations, such as SUM and AVERAGE, in spreadsheet software.
grammar and style checker, |
| groupware | Software designed to be used by work groups rather than individuals.”
header, |
| justification | The alignment of text on a line: left justification (smooth left margin and ragged right margin), right justification, (smooth right margin and ragged left margin.”
label, |
| macro | Custom-designed embedded procedure program that automates tasks in application programs.”
mail merge, |
| modeling | The use of computers to create abstract models of objects, organisms, organizations, and processes.”
online banking, |
| replication | Automatic replication of values, labels, and formulas, a feature of spreadsheet software.”
source document, |
| spelling checker (batch or interactive) | A built-in component of a word processor or a separate program that compares words in a document with words in a disk-based dictionary and flags words not found in the dictionary.”
spreadsheet software, |
| statistical analysis software | Specialized software that tests the strength of data relationships, produces graphs showing how two or more variables relate to each other, uncovers trends, and performs other statistical analyses.”
stylesheet, |
| tax preparation software | Provides a prefabricated worksheet where the user enters numbers into tax forms. Calculations are performed automatically, and the completed forms can be sent electronically to the IRS.”
templates, |
| thesaurus | A synonym finder; often included with a word processor.”
what if? Questions, |
| wizard | A software help agent that walks the user through a complex process.”
worksheet, |
| WYSIWYG | Short for |
