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Application   Term used to refer to the specific uses of a computer and the jobs it can perform.  
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Backup   A second copy of computer data made to avoid date loss in the even of a computer outage.  
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Byte   A unit that measures data.  
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Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF)   The electronic filing system used in the federal court system.  
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Central Processing Unit (CPU)   The part of a computer system where all computations, sorting, selecting, and data manipulation take place; oversees the use of the main memory and monitors input and output operations  
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Database   A group of data fields and records that is collected, stored, and organized for later retrieval through sorting, searches, and queries.  
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Database management system   Software that is used to collect, store, and organize data into a database.  
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Data Source   A name given to the connection set up to a database from a server.  
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Document Management System   A computerized mechanism for naming, storing, and labeling documents for ease and accuracy of later retrieval.  
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Electronic filing (E-Filing)   Is a system used by courts, government agencies, attorneys, and the public to reduce paperwork and electronically file documents over the internet using a standard web browser.  
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Email   The system of delivering and receiving messages electronically.  
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Field    
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Fonts   The style or design of a collection of letters, numerals, symbols, and punctuation marks.  
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Footers   Used in pleadings to place the title and page number of the pleading on each page, in wills and other estate planning documents.  
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Graphical user interface   A system using icons and pictures to displays menus and choices on a computer.  
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Hardware   The physical elements of a computer, such as a keyboard, monitor, printer, case or chassis, modem, scanner and joy stick.  
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Headers   Headers place text and graphics at the top of each page, and footers place text and graphics at the bottom of each page.  
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Input device   Keyboard, mouse, optical character reader, imaging scanner, and voice recognition system.  
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Justification   Refers to the four types of text alignment  
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Links   Web addresses that contain an activated linkage to another location or website on the Internet.  
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Local Area Network (LAN)   The linking of computers within close proximity.  
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Macro(s)   A single instruction that expands automatically into a set of instructions to perform a particular task.  
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Mainframe computers   Large, very expensive, high speed machines that require trained operators and special temperature environments, used for scientific and engineering computations.  
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Malware   A general term referring to problems that can be transmitted from computer to computer.  
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Metadata   A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.  
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Microcomputers   Small-sized computers often called personal or desktop computers.  
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Minicomputers   Mid-sized, powerful computers often used as network servers.  
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Open Codes   Codes that are invoked once to create a change in line, spacing, margins, tab settings, font changes, justification, and page numbering.  
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Operating system   Software that controls the flow of information to and from the central processing unit and to and from the input/output devices.  
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)   A scanner that converts an image into a character based text file.  
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Output device   Computer peripherals such as monitors and printers.  
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Paired Codes   Codes that are turn on and off to invoke changes such as underlining, bold face, italics, and styles and affect only the text appearing between the paired codes.  
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Peripherals   Devices that are connected to a computer, such as terminals, tape drives, disk drives, modems, and printers.  
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Portable Computers   Notebooks, laptops, handheld, tablet, and even smart phones qualify as portable computers.  
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Record   A history of something.  
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Redline (Blacklines)    
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Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)   An injury caused by physical strain due to repetitive movement; carpal tunnel is a common RSI  
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Software   All programs needed to instruct, control, and operate the hardware of a computer system such as flowcharts, manuals, programs, routines, training and the like.  
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Styles    
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Track Pad   A device found on many laptops that allows fingertip control of cursor movement.  
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Trackball   A device with a ball on top that is rolled with the fingertips to move the cursor, while the base of the device remains stationary.  
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)   The address at which and Internet site can be located.  
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USB Drives   Memory Sticks, Flash Drives, Thumb Drives. They contain memory when plugged into a computer like a hard drive.  
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Virus   Computer code that can be copied into an existing computer program and make itself known by impeding correct function of the program.  
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Web Browser   A program that allows a computer user to explore the Internet.  
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Web Cam   A small inexpensive device that functions like a camera, with its images being sent over the Internet.  
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Web Page or Website   A page found on an Internet Site.  
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Wide Area Network   The linking of computers that are located far apart.  
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Zip Drive   A portable computer drive, now nearly obsolete due to the common usage of recordable CDs and DVDs.  
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