Term | Definition |
Active Cell | The highlighted box 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. |
Animated clip art | A moving clip art graphic. |
Anti-Virus | An application designed to search for viruses and repair files on a computer. |
Application | Program or software. |
Arrow keys | The keys on computer keyboard used to move the cursor up, down, left, or right on your screen. |
Ascending Order | Organizing or sorting information in order from smallest to largest, or A-Z or 1-9. |
Application/software | Programs that allow to you accomplish certain tasks such as write letters, analyze numbers, sort files, manage finances, draw pictures, and play games. |
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. The horizontal line is called the X-axis, and the vertical line is called the Y-axis. |
Bar graph | One type of graph developed from spreadsheet data that uses parallel 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 task. |
Button bar | A horizontal strip of buttons near the top of a window. It provides shortcuts for commonly used commands. |
Buttons, multimedia | A "hotspot" used in multimedia applications to navigate from one place to another or to activate elements. |
Calculate | The working of mathematical equations. |
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 graphs or tables. |
Circle graph | A picture showing the relationship of two or more sets of data using a circler. |
Clip art | Drawings you can add to your documents or presentations. |
Column | The vertical divisions in a spreadsheet that are named with an alphabetical letter. |
Copy | To make an exact copy of information in your document, so you can place in order to duplicate it in a new location. |
CPU(Central Processing Unit) | The main chip that allows computers to do millions of calculations per second and makes it possible for users to write letters and balance your checkbook. |
Credits | To give reference to the creator and source of the information used in a presentation. |
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. |
Delete | A key used to erase characters. |
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. |
Desktop publishing | Using features of word processing/DTP software to format and produce documents, letters, reports, flyers,and newsletters with graphics. |
Domain | The part of an Internet address that identifies where a person's account is located. |
Email | Sending and receiving messages through a computer network. This process requires a computer, modern or network connection, and an email address. (telecommunication) |
Edit | To make changes in a document or presentations. |
Enter/Return | The key used to begin a new line in a word processor, or to enter information into a spreadsheet. |
Entry bar | The field where information is entered in a spreadsheet. |
Field | A place in a database record where a category of information can be entered or located. |
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 a 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. |
GIF(Graphic Interchange Format) | (Pronounced "jiff.") A file format for pictures, photographs, 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 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-;. |
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 the 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. |
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 describe content on a Web page that search engines use to properly index the page. |
Label | The term given to the words entered on a spreadsheet usually naming a column. |
Landscape | The page setup that permits a document to be printed in a horizontal position. |