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| Assistant | An animated character that offers helpful tips and allows you to search for help topics. |
| Alt key | used to select commands from a menu. |
| Arrow keys | four keys that move the cursor up,down,right, and left in the window without changing any text. |
| Backspace key | used to erase the character directly to the left of the cursor |
| close button | closes the document or application |
| Closing a document | the process of removing a document from the computer's memory and from the screen |
| Ctrl key | used with the arrow keys to move the cursor. Also used to select commands from a menu. |
| Cursor | A blinking vertical line in the document that indicates where the next character typed will be placed. |
| Delete keys | Erases the character directly to the right of the cursor. |
| Editing | Changing the contents of a document once text has been entered. |
| End key | moves the cursor to the end of the current line of text. |
| Enter key | used to end a paragraph or to terminate a line of text. |
| Escape key | Cancels (escapes from) the current operation. |
| Exiting Word | the process of removing th eword application from the computer's memory and from the screen. |
| File | A document that is stored on disk |
| File Name | A unique name for a file stored on a disk |
| Formatting Marks | Characters that are displayed in the document window as special symbols but do not appear on paper when a document is printed. |
| Formatting Toolbar | A toolbar that provides shorcuts to commonly used performed text formatting actions. |
| Home key | Moves the cursor to the beginning of the current line of text. |
| I-Beam pointer | The shape of the mouse pointer when it is moved into a document. |
| Isertion point | the postion of the cursor |
| Menu | a list of commands |
| Menu bar | a horizontal bar below the Title bar that contains the names of available menus. |
| Microsoft word | the word processor application in the microsoft office package. |
