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| Assistant | Animated character that offers tips and allows you to search for topics. |
| Alt key | Used to select commands from a menu |
| Close button | closes the document or application |
| File | a document that is stored on a disk. |
| File name | A unique name for a file stored on a disk. |
| Insertion point | The position of the cursor. |
| Menu | A list of commands. |
| Escape key | Cancels the current operation. |
| End key | moves the cursor to the end of the current line of text. |
| Enter key | Used to end a paragraph orto terminate a line of text. |
| Backspace key | Used to erase the character directly to the left of the cursor. |
| Ctrl key | used with the arrow keys to move the cursor |
| Editing | Changing the contents of a document once a text has been entered. |
| Arrow keys | four keys that move the cursor up,down,left,and right in the window without changing the text. |
| Closing a document | The process of removing a document from the computer's memory. |
| Cursor | a blinking vertical line in the document that indicates where the next characters typed will be placed |
| Exiting word | The process of removing the word application from the computer's memory and from the screen. |
| Formatting marks | Characters that are displayed in the document window as special symbols but do not appear on paper when a document is printing |
| Formatting toolbar | A toolbar that provides shortcuts to commonly performed text formatting actions |
| Home key | Moves the cursor to the beggining of the current line of text. |
