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Tech Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active Cell | The highlighted box that you can type in on a spreadsheet document |
| Alignment | How your text conforms to the left and right margins of a page. |
| AND | A way to search for information using the words AND, OR and NOT. |
| Animated clip art | A moving clip art graphic |
| Anti-Virus | An application designed to search for viruses and repair files on a computer |
| Application | Program or software |
| Application/Software | Programs that allow to you accomplish certain tasks such as write letters |
| Arrow keys | the buttons on a computer screen with the arrows that point up, down, left, right. |
| Ascending order | Organizing or sorting information in order from smallest to largest, |
| Acceptable Use policy | A set of rules and guidelines that are set up to regulate Internet use |
| Axis | A feature of a chart, on which you can plot numbers |
| Bar Graph | One type of graph developed from spreadsheet data that uses parallel bars to compare data and changes in data over time. |
| Bold | A style of text that makes words darker and thicker |
| Button | A little box on your screen that you click on with your mouse to accomplish a task. Most buttons contain small pictures (icons) that display what they do, such as a small printer that can be clicked on to print a document. |
| Button Bar | A horizontal strip of buttons near the top of a window. It provides shortcuts |
| Buttons, Multimedia | A "hotspot" used in multimedia applications to navigate from one place to another or to activate elements |
| Calculate | The working of mathematical equations. |
| Cell | The space in an intersection of a row |
| Chart | A way to present information from a spreadsheet in the form of graphs or tables |
| Circle Graph | A picture showing the relationship of two or more sets of data using a circler. |
| Clip Art | Drawings you can add to your documents or presentations. |
| Column | The Vertical divisions in a spreadsheet |
| Copy | To make an exact copy of information in your document, so you can place in order to duplicate it in a new location. |
| CPU | The main chip that allows computers to do millions of calculations per second and makes it possible for users to write letters and balance your checkbook. |
| Credits | To give reference to the creator and source of the information used in a presentation. |
| Cursor | The pointer on the screen that shows what you are pressing |
| Database | Software application that helps manage large collections of information. |
| Delete | A key used to erase characters. |
| Descending Order | Organizing information from greatest to least |
| Desktop | The background on the windows, menus, and dialog boxes on a PC. It is supposed to represent a desk. |
| Desktop Publishing | Using features of word processing/DTP software to format and produce documents, letters, reports, flyers, and newsletters with graphics. |
| Domain | The part of an Internet address that identifies where a person's account is located. |
| Sending and receiving messages through a computer network. | |
| Edit | To make changes in a document or presentation |
| Entry Bar | The field where information is entered in a spread |
| Field | A place in a database record where a category of information can be entered or located. |
| File | A set of related records in a database |
| Firewall | Technology that prevents users from visiting inappropriate Web sites, and protects the network from unauthorized users. |
| Font | the shape and style of a text |
| Format | To set the margins, tabs, font or line spacing in layout of a document. |
| Freeware | Software written and then donated to the public |
| GIF | A file format for pictures, photographs, and drawings that are compressed so that they can be sent across telephone lines quickly. |
| Graph | A picture shows the relationship of one or more sets of numbers to each other. |
| Graphic | Images/pictures created, edited, and/or published using a computer. |
| Hacker | An unauthorized person who secretly gains access to computer file |
| Hardware | Part of a computer such as keyboard, screen, mouse, joystick, printer, speakers, etc. |
| Highlight or select | To choose a part of a document by clicking and dragging mouse over it. |
| Home page | An introductory screen on a Web page on the World Wide Web, used to welcome visitors. A home page can include special text or graphics on which you click to jump to related information on other pages on the Web. |
| Home row | The keys your finger set on the keyboard |
| Hyperlink or Hypertext | Special text that when used jumps from one similar topic to another |
| Illustrations | Clip arts, graphics or drawings on a copmputer |
| Indent | The space you put in the beginning of the paragraph |
| JPEG | A standard for shrinking graphics so they can be sent faster between modems and take up less space on your hard drive |
| Keyboard | The hardware device you user to insert letters |
| Keyword | A word or reference point used to describe content |
| Label | The term given to words on a spreadsheet usually naming a column |
| Landscape | The page setup that permits a document to be printed in a horizontal position. |
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