Term | Definition |
• Home Row Keys | ASDFJKL |
Keyboarding posture /ergonomics | proper keyboarding position for arms at 90 degree angle or greater |
• Word Art | Insert Ribbon, Text Grouping |
• Saving documents | go to the file ribbon and use “Save As” when saving for the first time saving |
• Copy/Paste | texts, right click to highlight copy, move the insertion point, right click and paste. CNTRL+C,CNTRL+V |
• Fonts | Ribbon Font Grouping |
• Page layout- Orientation portrait/landscape | Portrait is vertical, landscape horizontal |
• Spell checker | Review Ribbon, Proofing Grouping |
• Thesaurus | Review Ribbon, Proofing Grouping |
• Grammar Check | Review Ribbon, Proofing Grouping |
• Undo/redo buttons | located on the quick access toolbar, and its used for the most recent activities in your document |
• Insertion point | the point where the next character types from the keyboard will appear on the screen. Usually represented by a flashing line. |
• Alignment | Ribbon ,Paragraph Grouping |
• Short cut keys: CTRL+HOME | takes you to the top of the document |
• Clip Art | Insert Ribbon, Illustrating Grouping. Pictures or graphics used to decorate the document. |
• Templates | preset document formatted in a specific style. Found on the File Ribbon. |
• New slides | Home Ribbon, Slides Grouping |
• Slide Transitions | Transition Ribbon |
• Custom Animations | Animations Ribbon |
• Inserting pictures | Insert Ribbon, Images Grouping |
• Inserting Sound | Insert Ribbon, Media Grouping |
• CPU | Central Processing Unit. Brains of the Computer |
• Motherboard | main circuit board in a computer that connects all other devices |
• Power supply | supplies electricity to the computer |
• Video Card | circuit that controls the display screen |
• Expansion slots | a place in a computer where an expansion card can be inserted |
• RAM/ROM | Random Access Memory: temporarily stored in your computer and will not stay when your computer is turned off. Read Only Memory: permanent memory that will stay on your computer when turned off. |
• Input Devices | Keyboard, mouse, microphone, scanner |
• Output Devices | printer, headphones, speakers, monitor |
• ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, created during WW 2, used to help create the Hydrogen Bomb, 100 feet long and 10 feet tall, used transistor tubes to operate |
• URL | uniform resource locator |
• ISP | Internet Service Provider, need this to connect to the internet. |
• .com | commercial |
• .org | nonprofit organization |
• .gov | government |
• .edu | education site |
• Homepage | first page on a website |
• URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
• ISP | Internet Service Provider |
• Bookmarks | marks and saves your favorite websites |
• History | previous websites you have recently visited |
• Search engine types | -“Spider” |
search engine | crawls through the internet searching for sites(software program), |
“human powered” search engine | uses people to search through the internet and organize your search results. |
• Performing internet searches | • Create a list of questions or topics |
• Performing internet searches | • Select key words |
• Performing internet searches | • then Begin search |