Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate - Information Technology/Introduction to Word Processing

INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING

DEFINITIONS

• Clipboard: A temporary storage area for the last thing you cut or copied.
• Copy: Temporarily store text on the clipboard.
• Cut: Delete text from a page.
• Docked Toolbar: A toolbar positioned along the edge of the screen
• Document Map: A vertical plane along the left edge of the document window that displays an outline of the document's headings.
• Filename Extension: Three letters that follow a period after the filename; the extension identifies the file type, for example, the extension .doc identifies a file created using word.
• Floating Toolbar: a toolbar positioned in the middle of the screen.
• Footer: Text that appears at the bottom of every page in a document.
• Header: Text that appears at the top of every page in a document.
• Justify: The aligning of text either uniformly across a page, or to the left, right or center.
• Leader Character: A solid, dashed or dotted line that fills the space used by a tab character.
• Paste: Inserting information into a document from the clipboard.
• Read-Only: A document that is protected so that users can open it to read the contents but not make any changes or add any comments to it.
• Template: A ready-made format, complete with margins, fonts, headers, and footers, numbering, logos, or any other kind of formatting the designer wants to appear on each page.*
• Toggle: Turn something on or off; make something, such as a command or toolbar button, active or inactive.
• Toolbar: A series of buttons and menus in an application, which allows the user to perform functions quickly, using the mouse.
  • Word contains a small number of prepared templates. If you go on to an advanced level, you can also create your own. For now, use the "general", "blank page" template.

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Reference

Microsoft Word Tutorials