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WORD PROCESSING
WORD PROCESSING TERMINOLOGY
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Word Processing | Processes large volumes of text |
| Title Bar | Displays name of file being worked on |
| Scroll Bar | Scrolls horizontal or vertically on the document |
| Ruler | Displays page area within margins |
| Status Bar | Displays number of pages and words used within document |
| Read Mode | Allows you to view the document in full screen in order to maximise the space available for reading or commenting on the document |
| Print Layout View | Accurately shows how text and other page elements will be printed. This view is useful when adjusting margins and layout |
| Web Layout | In this view lines of text are wrapped as they would be in a web browser and graphics are shown in their correct locations. |
| Outline | Boundaries and margins are not shown and sections can be expanded or collapsed as required |
| Draft | Used for entering and formatting text and does not show page borders. |
| Spelling and grammar checker | Automatically point out your spelling or grammatical mistakes and offer suggestions on correcting these errors |
| Cut | Removes text from its original location |
| Copy | Copies text |
| Paste | Pastes copied or cut text to chosen location |
| Clipboard | Place where copied items go before being pasted |
| Move | Moves highlighted text to another location |
| Undo | Undoes last command |
| Redo | Redoes last command |
| Header/Footer | Area outside of document in which to insert page numbers, date of creation and other fields |
| Document Orientation | Portrait or Landscape |
| Page Break | A line in a document that marks the end of one page and the beginning of another |
| Line Spacing | Automatic spacing between lines in a paragraph. |
| Table | A collection of rows and columns |
| Borders | Adding a border or inside lines to a table or piece of text or whole page |
| Shading | Applying colour to a table cell or cells |
| Text Box | To label diagrams or apply a border to text |
| Columns | Used for creating documents such as newspaper layout |
| Indent Text | Distance between the text and the margin |
| Bullets and Numbering | Applied to a list of items in a document |
| Text Formatting | Applying bold, underline, font size, font colour etc |
| Insert Tab | Insert a picture, shape, graph etc |
| Comment | Used to show where changes have been made to a document or for tutors to electronically mark learners work |
| Hyperlink | Links a web address, image or piece of text to another place or document or website. |
| Crop Tool | Removes unwanted space around an inserted image or object |
| Group and Ungroup | Will group images and shapes together as one |
| Text Wrapping | Allows you to add an image at the side of a paragraph and the text will automatically wrap around the image. |