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caption | A few descriptive words providing readers with information regarding a figure, table, or equation. |
clip art | A collection of media files available to insert in Microsoft Office documents that can include illustrations, photographs, video, or audio content. |
Clip Organizer | A tool supplied within Microsoft Office that collects and stores clip art, photos animations, videos, and other types of media to use in your documents. |
compress | Reduces the size of an object. |
crop | The process of trimming the horizontal or vertical edges of a picture to get rid of unwanted areas. |
drawing canvas | Is a frame-like boundary that keeps multiple drawing objects together. |
drop cap | A large initial letter that drops down two or more lines at the beginning of a paragraph to indicate that a new block of information is beginning and to give interest to newsletters or magazine articles. |
embedded object | A picture or other object inserted into a document that becomes part of the document. Compare to linked object. |
floating object | An image or other object positioned precisely on the page, allowing the text to wrap around it in one of several available formats. Compare to inline object. |
inline object | An image or other object that moves along with the text that surrounds it. Compare to floating object. |
linked object | A picture or other object inserted into a document by creating a connection between the document and picture file but not combining them in the same file. Compare to embedded object. |
pull quote | A sentence or other text displayed within a box on the page for emphasis and for ease of movement; often used along with drop caps in newsletters, advertisements, and magazines. |
resetting | Discards all the formatting changes that you made to a picture, including changes to contrast, color, brightness, and style. |
scale | The process of increasing or decreasing an original picture’s height and width by the same percentage. |
Screen Clippings | An image capture of only a part of your computer screen that you have selected. |
screenshot | An image capture of the entire current display on your computer screen. |
shapes | Figures such as lines, rectangles, block arrows, equation shapes, flowcharts, stars and banners, and callouts that you can add to your document or drawing campus. |
Smart Art graphics | Graphical illustrations available within Word from a list of various categories, including List diagrams, Process diagrams, Cycle diagrams, Hierarchy diagrams, Relationship diagram, Matrix diagrams, and Pyramid diagrams. |
text box | An invisible, formatted box in which you can insert and position text and/or graphic objects. |
WordArt | A feature within Microsoft Word that creates decorative effects with a string of text. |