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CH 1: Introduction to Word: Organizing a Document
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| AutoRecover | A feature that enables Word to recover a previous version of a document. |
| Document Inspector | Checks for and removes certain hidden and personal information from a document. |
| Document Panel | Provides descriptive information about a document, such as title, subject, author, keywords, and comments. |
| Draft view | View that shows a great deal of document space, but no margins, headers, footers, or other special features; simplified work area, removing white space and other elements from view. |
| Footer | Information that generally displays at the bottom of a document page, worksheet, slide, or database report. |
| Header | Information that generally displays at the top of a document page, worksheet, slide, or database report. |
| Insertion point | Blinking bar that indicates where text that you next type will appear. |
| Landscape orientation | An orientation for a displayed page or worksheet that is wider than it is tall. |
| Margin | The area of blank space that displays to the left, right, top, and bottom of a document or worksheet. |
| Outline view | A structural view of a document that can be collapsed or expanded as necessary. |
| Portrait orientation | An orientation for a displayed page or worksheet that is taller than it is wide. |
| Print Layout view | View that closely resembles the way a document will look when printed; default view |
| Read Mode | View in which text reflows automatically between columns to make it easier to read. |
| Ribbon | The long bar of tabs, groups, and commands, located just beneath the Title bar. |
| Symbol | A character or graphic not normally included on a keyboard. |
| Template | A partially completed document containing preformatted text or graphics. |
| Thesaurus | A tool used to quickly find a synonym (a word with the same meaning as another). |
| Watermark | Text or graphic that displays behind text. |
| Web Layout view | View that displays how a document will look when posted on the Internet. |
| Word | A word processing software application used to produce all sorts of documents, including memos, newsletters, forms, tables, and brochures. |
| Word processing software | A computer application, such as Microsoft Word, used primarily with text to create, edit, and format documents; enables you to produce documents such as letters,reports, and research papers. |
| Word wrap | The feature that automatically moves words to the next line if they do not fit on the current line. |
| AutoSave | automatically saves a file stored on OneDrive |
| Save a Copy | Option to save a file as a different file name when the file is saved on OneDrive |
| Show/Hide | Button that displays or hides paragraph breaks, line breaks, spaces, tabs, and other formatting symbols in a document |
| AutoComplete | Feature that fills in the complete day, month, or date as you type or suggests an entry for a cell |
| AutoComplete Tag | the notation that displays and predicts what will be typed, such as day, month, or date. When the tag appears, press ENTER to automatically insert the text. |
| AutoFormat | Feature that controls the formatting of items such as numbered and bulleted lists, fractions, ordinal numbers, hyphens and dashes, quotes, indents, and hyperlinks. |
| AutoCorrect Options smart tag | Tag that appears by a word that has been automatically corrected |
| Paragraph Break | Formatting option that you insert when you press ENTER at the end of a word, line, or paragraph |
| Paragraph Symbol | Icon that indicates a paragraph break |
| Line Breaks | Formatting option that controls where lines begin and end, which can be used to keep lines together in a bulleted or numbered list or to start a new line within a cell. |
| Non-breaking spacebar | formatting option that keeps words together so they are not separated by word wrap at the end of a line. |
| Drag and Drop | A method to copy or move selected text or an object |
| Cut | remove text or other information |
| Paste | Place text or other objects that have been store don the Clipboard in a new location. |
| Shortcut Commands: Cut + Paste | Cut: Ctrl+X ; Paste: Ctrl+V |
| Copy | Duplicate text or other information |
| Shortcut Command: Copy | Ctrl+C |
| Keep Source Formatting | Retains formatting from source document (the document where the text was copied) |
| Merge Formatting | Merges formatting from source documents and current document |
| Keep Text Only | Pastes only unformatted text |
| Clipboard | Location where multiple copied items from an Office file or other source such as a web page are stored |
| Quick Access Toolbar | Area located above the Ribbon with buttons you use to perform commonly used commands. |
| Undo | Reverse an action |
| Clipboard pane | Pane that displays the contents of the Clipboard |
| Shortcut Command: Undo | Ctrl+Z |
| Shortcut Command: Redo/Repeat | Ctrl+Y |
| Redo | Repeat an action |
| Hard Return | created when you press Enter to move the insertion point to a new line |
| Soft Return | created by word processor as it wraps text to a new line |
| Toggle | to switch from one setting to another |
| Soft page break | inserted when text fills an entire page, then continues onto the next page |
| Hard page break | forces the next part of a document to begin on a new page |
| Section Break | marker that divides a document into sections, thereby enabling different formatting in each section |
| Full Screen Reading view | eliminated tabs and makes it easy to read a document |
| Outline view | displays a structural view of the document that can be collapsed or expanded |
| Web Layout View | used when creating a Web page |
| Compatibility checker | looks for features that are not supported by previous versions of Word |
| Document Inspector | checks for and removes different kinds of hidden and personal information from a document |
| Document panel | enables you to enter descriptive information about a document |