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Keyboarding Unit 2
Text Formatting
Term | Definition |
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Alignment | The horizontal positioning of text (left, right, center, justify) |
Bold | a print enhancement used to make characters appear darker than other text. |
Bullets/Numbering | used to arrange items in a list with each item beginning with a bullet or a number. |
Cut/Copy/Paste | a feature that enables you to move or copy text from one place to another. |
Font size | determines the height of characters in units called points. |
Font Style | the type of character format that determines the look or artistic style of the characters. |
Font type | the design and appearance of printed characters. |
Footers | text such as title, page numbers, dates printed at the bottom of the page. |
Headers | text such as title, page numbers, and dates printed at the top of a page. |
Indentations | to move one or more lines inward from the margins. |
Insertion mode | an input mode in which the existing text moves to the right as new text is added. |
Italics | text that is slanted to the right. |
Landscape orientation | page orientation in which data prints across the wider portion of the page. |
Line spacing | the vertical distance between two lines of type |
Margins | blank spaces between the edge of the paper and the printed text |
Page Numbering | method of arranging pages in numerical order. |
Portrait orientation | Page orientation in which data prints across the narrower portion of a page. |
to make a hard copy of document. | |
Reveal/Show codes | shows non-printing or formatting characters |
Spell check | used to check the spelling of a document after keying. |
Tab settings | allow you to line up text at a certain point |
Typeover mode | replaces existing text with new text as it is keyed |
Underline | a feature that underlines text as it is keyed |