Term | Definition |
Margins | The blank areas around the top, bottom and sides of a page. Word sets default margins, you can change. |
Alignment | refers to the position of text between the margins. |
left align | text lined up on the left margin |
right align | text lined up o nthe right margin |
center align | text lined up in the center of the page |
justify | text is aligned both at the left and right margins. Some extra spacing may occur in the middle of sentences to align this correctly |
Bullets | is any small character that appears before an item. |
Veticle alignment | refers to positioning text between the top and bottom margins of a document. |
Mirrored Margins | where instead of left and right margins, the page has insides and outside margins. |
inside margin | also called the Gutter margin is the right margin on a left page and the left margin on the right page the margins closest to the inside of the page near the binding |
outside margin | left margin on the left page and the right margin on the right page. |
indent | the space between text and a documents margin. |
First-line indent | only the first line fo a paragraph is indented. The top marker on the ruler. |
Negative Indent (outdent) | can create by dragging the indent markers on the ruler to the left past the left margin or by setting a negative # in the left box in the paraagraph group. |
Hangin indent | in which the first full line of text is not indented but the following lines are. The bottom marker on the ruler. |
Tab Stops or tabs | mark the place where the insertion point will stop when you press the tab key default is 1/2" |
leaders | are solid, dotted or dashed lines that fill the blank space before a tab setting |
Multilevel list | a list with two or more levels of bullets or numbering |
outline numbered list | a numbered multilevel list. |