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Word
CH 2: Document Presentation: Editing and Formatting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alignment guide | A horizontal or vertical green bar that appears as you move an object, assisting with aligning the object with text or with another object. |
| Border | A line that surrounds a paragraph, page, or a table element. |
| Bulleted list | A graphic element that itemizes and separates paragraph text to increase readability; often used to identify lists. |
| Center alignment | Positions text horizontally in the center of a line, an equal distance from both the left and right margins. |
| Clip art | An electronic illustration that can be inserted into an office project. |
| Column | A format that separates text into side-by-side vertical blocks, often used in newsletters. |
| Contextual tab | A Ribbon tab that displays when an object, such as a picture or table, is selected. A contextual tab contains groups and commands specific to the selected object. |
| Crop | The process of reducing an image size by eliminating unwanted portions of an image or another graphical object. |
| Document theme | A set of coordinating fonts, colors, and special effects that gives a stylish and professional look. |
| First line indent | Marks the location to indent only the first line in a paragraph. |
| Font | A combination of typeface and type style. |
| Formatting | The process of modifying text by changing font and paragraph characteristics. |
| Hanging indent | Aligns the first line of a paragraph at the left margin, indenting remaining lines in the paragraph. |
| Indent | A setting associated with the way a paragraph is distanced from one or more margins. |
| Justified alignment | Spreads text evenly between the left and right margins, so that text begins at the left margin and ends uniformly at the right margin. |
| Left alignment | Begins text evenly at the left margin, with a ragged right edge. |
| Left indent | A setting that positions all text in a paragraph an equal distance from the left margin. |
| Line spacing | The vertical spacing between lines in a paragraph. |
| Live Preview | An Office feature that provides a preview of the results of a selection when you point to an option in a list or gallery. Using Live Preview, you can experiment with settings before making a final choice. |
| Mini Tiiolbar | The feature that provides access to common formatting commands, displayed when text is selected. |
| Numbered list | Sequence items in a list by displaying a successive number beside each item. |
| Object | An item, such as a picture or text box, that can be individually selected and manipulated in a document. |
| Paragraph spacing | The amount of space before or after a paragraph. |
| Picture | A graphic file that is retrieved from storage media or the Internet and placed in an Office project. |
| Right alignment | Begins text evenly at the right margin, with a ragged left edge. |
| Right indent | A setting that positions all text in a paragraph an equal distance from the right margin. |
| Sans serif font | A font that does not contain a thin line or extension at the top and bottom of the primary strokes on characters. |
| Section break | An indicator that divides a document into parts, enabling different formatting for each section. |
| Serif font | A font that contains a thin line or extension at the top and bottom of the primary strokes on characters. |
| Shading | A background color that appears behind text in a paragraph, page, or table element. |
| Sizing handle | A series of faint dots on the outside border of a selected chart or object; enables the user to adjust the height and width of the chart or object. |
| Style | A named collection of formatting characteristics that can be applied to text or paragraphs. |
| Style set | A combination of title, heading, and paragraph styles that can be used to format all of those elements in a document at one time. |
| Tab | A marker that specifies the position for aligning text in a column arrangement, often including a dot leader. |
| Text box | A graphical object that contains text. |
| WordArt | A Microsoft Office feature that creates decorative text that can be used to add interest to the text used in a document. |
| How does a document theme differ from a style? | A theme applies an overall design to a document, with no requirement that any text is selected. A style applies formatting characteristics to selected text or to a current paragraph. |
| To identify a series of sequential steps, you could use | Numbering. |
| The feature that modifies text to include special effects, such as color, shadow, and gradients,is | WordArt |
| If you have not selected text when you identify a shading color, what part of a document is shaded? | The paragraph in which the insertion point is located. |
| Having applied a particular heading style to several headings within a document, you modify the style to include bold and italic font formatting. What happens to the headings that were previously formatted in that style, and why? | They are updated to reflect the modified heading style settings. When a heading style is modified, all text formatted in that style is updated. |
| To divide a document so that one area can be formatted independently of the next, you can use a | Section break |
| If you select text and apply a linked style, what happens? | Character formats are applied, but not paragraph formats. |
| To draw attention to such items as contact information or store hours, you could place text in a bordered area called a | Text box |
| Viewing a document in Outline view can be helpful in which one of the following ways? | It enables you to expand and collapse levels, dragging to reposition them within the document. |
| The feature that enables you to watch text flow around an object is called | Live Layout |
| An item, such as a picture or text box, that can be individually selected and manipulated. | Object |
| The small circles and squares that appear around a selected object and enable you to adjust its size. | Sizing handles |
| A list of points that is not sequential. | Bulleted list |
| A feature that modifies text to include special effects, such as color, shadow, gradient, and 3-D appearance. | WordArt |
| The vertical space between the lines in a paragraph. | Line spacing |
| A typeface or complete set of characters. | Font |
| The horizontal or vertical green bar that appears as you move an object, assisting with lining up an object. | Alignment guide |
| Marks the location to indent only the first line in a paragraph. | First line indent |
| A named collection of formatting characteristics that can be applied to characters or paragraphs. | Style |
| A combination of title, heading, and paragraph styles that can be used to format all of those elements at one time. | Style set |
| A format that separates document text into side-by-side vertical blocks, often used in newsletters. | Column |
| A marker that specifies the position for aligning text, sometimes including a leader. | Tab |
| The amount of space before or after a paragraph. | Paragraph spacing |
| A feature that enables you to watch text flow around the object as you move the object. | Live Layout |
| A setting associated with the way a paragraph is distanced from one or more margin. | Indent |
| An indicator that divides a document into parts, enabling different formatting in each section. | Section break |
| A boxed object that can be bordered and shaded, providing space for text. | Text box |
| A line that surrounds a paragraph or a page. | Border |
| A graphic file that is obtained from the Internet or a storage device. | Picture |
| A unified set of design elements, including font style, color, and special effects, that is applied to an entire document. | Document theme |
| Monospaced typeface | A font uses the same amount of horizontal space for every character. |
| Proportional Typeface | A font allocates horizontal space to each characters. |
| Type style | The characteristic applied to a font, such as bold. |
| Hidden text | The text does not appear onscreen. |
| Character spacing | The horizontal space between characters. |
| Scale or scaling | The adjustment of height or width by a percentage of the images original size. |
| Position | Raises or lowers text from the baseline. |
| Kerning | Enables more even spacing between characters. |
| Open type | A form of font designed for use on all platforms. |
| Change Case | Change capitalization of text. |
| Highlighter | Mark text that you want to locate easily. |
| Nonbreaking hyphen | Prevents a word from becoming separated at the hyphen. |
| Nonbreaking space | Keeps two or more words together on a line. |
| Left tab | Marks the position to align text to the left. |
| Center tab | Marks where text centers as you type. |
| Right tab | Marks where the position of the text aligns to the right. |
| Decimal tab | Marks where numbers align on a decimal point as you type. |
| Bar tab | Marks the location of a vertical line between columns. |
| Leader character | is dots or hyphens that connect two items of information. |
| Multilevel list | Extends a numbered list to several levels. |
| Widow | The last line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the top of a page. |
| Orphan | The first line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the bottom of a page and the rest of the paragraph continues on the next page. |
| Character style | Stores character formatting and affects only selected text. |
| Paragraph styles | Stores formats used on text in an entire paragraph. |
| Text wrapping style | Refers to the way text wraps around an image. |
| Picture styles | Gallery containing preformatted options that can be applied to a graphical object. |
| Contrast | The difference between light and dark areas of an image. |
| Brightness | The ratio between lightness and darkness of an image. |
| Compress | Reduces the file size of an object. |
| Background of a picture | The portion of a picture to be removed. |
| Foreground of a picture | The portion of a picture to be kept. |
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