| A | B |
| Assistant | A character that helps and allows you to search other topics |
| Alt key | Used to select commands from menu |
| Arrow keys | Four keys that move the cursor up down right or left |
| backspace key | deletes letters to the left |
| close button | closes the document |
| closing a document | the process of removing a document from the screen |
| Ctrl key | used w/ arrow keys to control cursor |
| Cursor | ablinking vertical line that shows where the next letter is going to show up |
| delete keys | erasesthe cahracter directly to the right of the cursor |
| editing | changing the contents of the document once it has been entered |
| end key | move the cursor to the end of the current line text |
| enter key | used to end a paragraph or exterminate a line text |
| escape key | cancels escapes from current operation |
| exiting word | the process of removing the word operation from the computers memory and from the screen |
| file | a document that is stored on disk |
| file name | a unique name for a file stored on disk |
| formatting marks | cahracters that are displayed in the document window as a special symbol but does not appear on paper when document is printed |
| formatting toolbar | a toolbar that provides shortcuts to commonly performed text formatting actions |
| home key | move the cursor to the begining of the current line of text |
| I beam pointer | the shape of the mouse pointer when it is moved into a document |