Question | Answer |
Alignment | describes how text is positioned between the left and right margins on a page - left, center, right, or justified |
Aptitude | the natural ability or potential for learning new skills |
Arkansas Works College and Career Planning System (Kuder Navigator) | an Internet-based tool that helps students achieve their educational and career planning goals by providing interests, skills, and work values assessments, portfolio development, and career exploration |
Career clusters | jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills |
Career portfolio | collection of information about oneself |
Clipart | prepared pictures and other artwork you can insert into a document |
Clipboard | a temporary storage area for text and/or graphics that are to be cut or copied and then pasted to another location |
Copy | to duplicate a selection, files, folder, etc |
so that you can place it in another position or location | |
Cut | to remove text or graphics from a document, and place it on the clipboard |
Default | a setting that is automatically used unless another option is chosen |
Delete | remove the character from the right of the insertion point |
Document | a data file in a software application |
Edit | to change an existing document |
Font | the general shape and style of a set of characters |
Footer | text and/or graphics appearing at the bottom of each page of a document |
Grammar checker | checks each sentence in the document, and points out grammatical errors, such as subject and verb agreement, sentence fragments, sentence structure, sentence length, and punctuation |
Interest | a thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about |
Interest inventory | an assessment that helps people indentify their interest areas |
I-beam | the shape the mouse pointer takes when it is positioned on text in a document |
Interest | a thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest inventory |
Orientation | determines whether your document will be lengthwise or crosswise on a sheet of paper |
Learning style | natural method or way one thinks or learns |
Word processing | software you use to prepare text documents such as letters, reports, flyers, brochures, and books |
Overtype mode | in this mode, new text replaces existing characters |
Values | personal standards by which one lives |
Save | to store a document file on a disk or other storage medium |
Scroll | to move (using scroll boxes or scroll arrows) through a list, a block of text, a document, or any display larger than the current window or screen |
Skill | the ability to perform a certain activity well |
Word wrap | text automatically moves to the next line when it reaches the right margin |
Paste | to place text or graphics from the clipboard into a document |
Personality | the combination of attitude, values, interests, and behaviors that identify a person |
Procrastinator | one who puts off doing things or making decisions |
Spell checker | the process of checking the spelling of words in a document against a dictionary of known words and offering advice on how to make corrections |
Thesaurus | a feature in word processing software that allows you to quickly find alternative words or synonyms for a word in your document |
View | example normal view, print layout view, web layout view, reading layout, and outline view |