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Unit C
Unit C: Formatting Text & Paragraphs Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Font | a receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism, typically a freestanding stone structure. |
| Font size | The size of characters, measured in points. |
| point | A point is 1/27 of an inch |
| Theme | A related set of fonts, colors, styles, and effects that is applied to an entire document to give it a cohesive appearance. |
| Drop Cap | is the first letter of a paragraph that's of a much bigger size than the rest that follow. |
| Bold | Formatting applied to text to make it thicker and darker. |
| Italic | Formatting applied to text to make the characters slant to the right. |
| format painter | A feature used to copy the format settings applied to the selected text to other text you want to format the same way. |
| Quick styles | A Quick Style is any style displayed in the Quick Style gallery. The Styles pane is your route to more style settings. You launch it by clicking the Styles dialog launcher. |
| Style | A named collection of character and paragraph formats that are stored together and can be applied to text to format it quickly. |
| Left aligned | Alignment in which the item is flush with the left margin. |
| Right align | Alignment in which an item is flush with the right margin. |
| Justify | to make (a line of type) a desired length by spacing the words and letters, especially so that full lines in a column have even margins both on the left and on the right. |
| Center | Alignment in which an item is centered between the margin. |
| Tab stop | A tab stop is a term used to describe the location the cursor stops after the tab key is pressed. |
| Indent | The space between the edge of a line of text or a paragraph and the margin. |
| Indent marker | A marker on the horizontal ruler that shows the indent settings for the active paragraph. |
| Bullet | A small graphic symbol used to identify an item in a list. |
| Borders | border can mean several things. One is a visual border in a document, sometimes a solid line, dotted or dashed line, or one made up of various objects, like flowers, baseballs, animals or virtually any other object. |
| Shading | A background color or pattern that can be applied to text, tables, or graphics. |
| Clip art | A collection of graphic images that can be inserted into the documents, presentations, web pages,spreadsheets, and other office files. |
| Clip organizer | A library of art, pictures, sounds, video clips, and animations that all office applications share. |
| Clips | a device, typically flexible or worked by a spring, for holding an object or objects together or in place. |
| Sizing handle | . Alternatively referred to as a handle, drag handle, sizing grip, or resize corner, the sizing handle is a tool found in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows users to resize an object. |
| Inline graphic | Graphics images that are embedded within a text document. |
| Floating graphic | Graphics can be inserted into a document "inline" rather than floating in the draw layer. When a graphic is inserted this way, it behaves in almost all respects like a text character. |