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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Active cell | The thick-bordered cell where you can enter numbers or formulas in a spreadsheet. |
| Alignment | How your text conforms to the left and right margins of a page. The text can be right-aligned, centered, left- aligned, or fully aligned/justified. |
| AND | A way to search for information using the words AND, OR and NOT. Boolean logic was created by English mathematician George Boole 150 years ago. |
| Home page | An introductory screen on a Web page on the World Wide Web, used to welcome visitors. A home page can include special text or graphics on which you click to jump to related information on other pages on the Web. |
| Home row | Keys on the keyboard with fingers of the left hand are on A-S-D-F and fingers on the right hand on J-K-L-;. |
| Clip art | Drawings you can add to your documents or presentations. Clip art includes items such as cartoons, maps, symbols, and flags. Some software packages include clip art. Clip art can be purchased separately. |
| Delete | Organizing or sorting information in order from largest to smallest, Z-A or 9-1. |
| Descending Order | Organizing or sorting information in order from largest to smallest, Z-A or 9-1. |
| Desktop | The background on the windows, menus, and dialog boxes on a PC. It is supposed to represent a desk. |
| Edit | To make changes in a document or presentation. |
| Entry bar | The field where information is entered in a spreadsheet |
| Field | A set of related records in a database. |
| Font | To set the margins, tabs, font or line spacing in layout of a document |
| Freeware | Software written and then donated to the public, so anyone is free to copy it and share it with their friends. This is not the same as shareware or commercial software, which is supposed to be paid for. |
| GIF (Graphic | Pronounced "jiff.") A file format for pictures, photographs, and drawings that are compressed so that they can be sent across telephone lines quickly. Format widely used on electronic bulletin boards and the Internet and are limited to 256 colors, so they |
| Graphic | Images/pictures created, edited, and/or published using a computer. |
| Hacker | An unauthorized person who secretly gains access to computer files. |
| Hardware | Part of the computer system such as a keyboard, screen, mouse, joystick, printer, speakers, etc |
| Highlight or Select | To choose part of a document by clicking and dragging over it with the mouse to highlight the text |
| Illustration | To set the first line of a paragraph in from the margin in a word processing document. |