Question | Answer |
Active cell | The thick-bordered box where you can enter numbers |
Alignment | How your text conforms to the left and right margins |
AND | A way to search for information using the words AND, OR and NOT. |
Animated clip art | A moving art grapic |
Anti-Virus | An application designed to search for viruses and repair files |
Application | Program or software. |
Application/software | Programs that allow to accomplish certain tasks such as write letters, analyze, sort files |
Arrow keys | The keys on computer keyboard used to move the cursor up, left, right, on screen |
ascending order | organizing or sorting information in order from smallest to largest |
AUP-Acceptable Use Policy | a set of rules of guidelines that are set up to regulate internet use and to protect |
Axis | a feature of a chart, on which you can plot numbers. |
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. Formulas that are usually used |
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 |
Circle Graph | A picture showing the relationship of two or more sets of data |
Clip Art | Drawings you can add yo your documents or presentations Clip art includes items such as cartoons |
Column | The vertical division in a spreadsheet that are named with an alphabetical letter. |
copy | To make an exact copy of information in your documents, so you can place in order |
CPU | The main chip that allows computers to do millions of calculations per second |
Credits | To give refernece 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 larfe collections of information. |
Delete | A used to erase characters. |
Descending Order | Organizing or sorting information |
Desktop | The background on the widows, menus, and dialog boxes |
Desktop publishing | using features of word processing/dtp software |
Domain | The part of an internet address that identifies where a account is located |
Email | Sending and receiving messages through a computer network. |
Edit | To make changes in a document or presentation |
Enter/Return | The key used to begin a new line in a word prcessor |
Enter Bar | The field where information is entered |
Field | A place in a database record where a category of information be |
File | 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 |
Font | The shape and style of text. |