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Keyboarding Unit 2
Text Formatting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |