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Vocab
| 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 mathematicion George Boole 150 years ago. |
| Animated Clip Art | A moving clip art graphic. |
| Anti-Viris | An application designed to search for viruse and repair files on a computer. |
| Application | Program or software. |
| Application/Software | Programs that allow you to accomplish certain talks such as write letters, analyze numbers, sort files, manage finances, draw pictures, and play games. |
| Arrow keys | The keys on computer keyboard used to move the cursor up, down, lef, or right on your screen. |
| Ascending Order | Oranizing or sorting information in order from smallest to largest, or A-Z or 1-9. |
| AUP - Acceptable Use Policy | A set of rules and guidelines that are set up to regulate Internet use and to protect the user. |
| Axis | A feature of a chart, on which you can plot numbers. Horizontal line: X-axis Vertical line: Y-axis |
| Bar graph | One type of graph developed from spreadsheet data that uses parellel bars to compare data and changes in data over time. |
| Bold | A style of text that makes a letter or word darker and thicker to stand out in a document. |
| Button | A little box on your screen that you click on with your mouse to accomplish a talk. Most buttons contain small pictures (icons) that display what they do, such as a small printer that can be clicked on th print a document. |
| Button bar (Toolbar) | A horizontal strip of buttons near the top of a window. It provides shortcuts for commonly used commands. Some programs let you choose to hide or display the button bar, and mix and match buttons to customize a button bar. Also known as a toolbar. |
| Buttons, Multimeadia | A "hotspot" used in multimedia applications to navigate from one place to another or to activate elements (e.g., sound, movies, animation). |
| Calculate | Math being done on a spreadsheet. |
| Cell | The space at the intersection of a row and column in a spreadsheet. |
| Chart | A way to present information from a spreadsheet in the form of a graph or a table. |
| Circle (Pie) graph | A picture showing the relationship of two or more sets of data using a circle. |
| Clip art | A picture or drawing you can add to your documents. |
| Column | The vertical divisions in a spreadsheet that are named with an alphabetical letter. |
| Copy | To make an exact replica/duplicate of information. |
| CPU (Central Processing Unit) | The main chip that allows computers to do millions of calculations per second. (THE BRAIN) |
| Credits | To give reference to the creator and source of information. |
| Cursor | This is where the action is located on your screen, represented by a flashing line. |
| Database | Software application that helps manage large collections of information. A simple database might be a single file containing many records, with the same set of fields. Data can be sorted and searched by one or more criteria. |
| Delete | A key used to erase stuff. |
| 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. |
| Entry bar | The field where information is entered in a spreadsheet. |
| Field | A set of related records in a database. |
| File | A set of related records in a database. |
| Firewall | Technology that prevents users from visiting inappropriate Web sites, and protects the network from unauthorized users. |
| Font | The shape and style of text. |
| Format | 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. |
| GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) | A file format for pictures and drawings that are compressed so that they can be sent across telephone lines quickly. |
| Graph | A picture shows the relationship of one or more sets of numbers to each other. Some graph types are line, bar, area, and pie graphs. |
| 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. |
| Home Page | An introductory screen on a Web apage on the World Wide Web, used to wecome visitors. |
| Home Rows | Keys on the keyboard (finger home) fingers of the left hand are on A S D F and fingers on the right hand are on J K L ; |
| Host | The name given to a computer directly connected to the Internet.Host computers are associated with computer networks, online services, or bulletin board systems. |
| Hyperlink or Hypertext | Special text when clicked jumps the user from one related topic to another. |
| Illustration | Clip art, graphics or drawings on a computer. |
| Indent | TO set teh first line of a paragraph in from the margin in a word processing document. |
| Internet | Term given to the network of computers that provide information worldwide. (WWW-World Wide Web) |
| JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) | A standard for shrinking graphics so they can be sent faster between modems and take up less space on your hard drive. These graphics can be reduced to 5 percent of their original size, but the image quality deteriorates. |
| Keyboard | The hardware device used to enter letters into the computer. |
| Keyword | A word or reference point used to do a search. |
| Label | The term given to the words entered on a spread sheet usually naming a column. |
| Landscape | The page setup that permits a document to be printed in a horizontal fasion. |
| Line Graph | A graph used to display trends and compare data. |
| Line spacing | The span between lines of text. |
| Linear | Moving in a straight line or path; a multimedia presentation that moves in a straight line from image to image. |
| Links | Connections that bridge one image, page, or word to another by clicking on a highlighted word or phrase. |
| Math Symbols to Use When Searching | Symbols used in a search: >Greater than symbol |
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