Term | Definition |
Word Processing | Processes large volumes of text |
Title Bar | Displays name of file being worked on |
Scroll Bar | Scrolls horizontal or vertically on the document |
Ruler | Displays page area within margins |
Status Bar | Displays number of pages and words used within document |
Read Mode | Allows you to view the document in full screen in order to maximise the space available for reading or commenting on the document |
Print Layout View | Accurately shows how text and other page elements will be printed. This view is useful when adjusting margins and layout |
Web Layout | In this view lines of text are wrapped as they would be in a web browser and graphics are shown in their correct locations. |
Outline | Boundaries and margins are not shown and sections can be expanded or collapsed as required |
Draft | Used for entering and formatting text and does not show page borders. |
Spelling and grammar checker | Automatically point out your spelling or grammatical mistakes and offer suggestions on correcting these errors |
Cut | Removes text from its original location |
Copy | Copies text |
Paste | Pastes copied or cut text to chosen location |
Clipboard | Place where copied items go before being pasted |
Move | Moves highlighted text to another location |
Undo | Undoes last command |
Redo | Redoes last command |
Header/Footer | Area outside of document in which to insert page numbers, date of creation and other fields |
Document Orientation | Portrait or Landscape |
Page Break | A line in a document that marks the end of one page and the beginning of another |
Line Spacing | Automatic spacing between lines in a paragraph. |
Table | A collection of rows and columns |
Borders | Adding a border or inside lines to a table or piece of text or whole page |
Shading | Applying colour to a table cell or cells |
Text Box | To label diagrams or apply a border to text |
Columns | Used for creating documents such as newspaper layout |
Indent Text | Distance between the text and the margin |
Bullets and Numbering | Applied to a list of items in a document |
Text Formatting | Applying bold, underline, font size, font colour etc |
Insert Tab | Insert a picture, shape, graph etc |
Comment | Used to show where changes have been made to a document or for tutors to electronically mark learners work |
Hyperlink | Links a web address, image or piece of text to another place or document or website. |
Crop Tool | Removes unwanted space around an inserted image or object |
Group and Ungroup | Will group images and shapes together as one |
Text Wrapping | Allows you to add an image at the side of a paragraph and the text will automatically wrap around the image. |