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166 Cards in this Set
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Operating System |
Is software that controls the basic operations of your computer.
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Windows Areo |
A graphic interface feature. |
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Point |
Positioning the pointing device on a specific objection on the screen
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Click
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Pressing and releasing the left button once while pointing to an object on the screen
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Double-click
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Quickly pressing and releasing the left button twice to initiate an action
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Drag |
While pointing to an objection to the screen, pressing and holding the left button and moving the object to a new location; releasing the button completes the drag operation |
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Right-click |
Pressing and releasing the right button to view file properties or a menu of functions. |
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Folders |
directories that contain files or other folders are displayed on the work area.
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Window |
Small work area |
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Desktop |
is the main work area in Windows. |
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Windows Sidebar |
Is a transparent panel that is attached to one side of the screen and contains gadgets. |
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Tool Bar |
contains functions specific to the window. |
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Address Bar |
identifies the path for the currently open folder. |
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Navigation Pane |
includes favorite links, which are links to folders containing the items you use the most, including recent searches. |
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TaskBar |
Displays icons of the programs you have open ot that run in the background. |
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Gadgets |
Mini-programs that have specific functionality, such as displaying the time or weather.Explorer Windows: Used to navigate to items on your computer. |
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Address Bar |
Identifies the path for the currently open folder. |
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Navigation Pane |
Includes favorite links |
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Title bar |
The bar at the top of the windows |
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Maximize Button |
Enlarges a window |
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Minimize Button |
Reduces a window |
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Restore Down Button |
Returns the window top the size it was before |
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Close Button |
used to close the program |
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Scroll bar |
appears on the edge of a window any time there i more content that can appear. |
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Scroll box |
Is a slider that indicates your position within the window. |
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Scroll arrows |
Are located at the ends of the scroll bar. |
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Menu |
contains commands for indicating certain actions or tasks. |
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Dialog Box |
an interactive message window, a[[ears when more information is required before the command can be performed. |
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Computer Folder |
Is where you access hard disk drives, removable drives and media, CD and DVD drives, etc. |
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Documents Folder |
Stores the files you use for you projects |
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Public Folder |
Store the files you want to share with other users on the same computer or who are connected through a network. |
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Personal Folder |
Stores more frequently used folders and is by default names with the name you used to create your computer. |
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Recycle Bin |
The waste basket icon.Disk Clean up: a utility that deletes temporary files created when you surf the Web. |
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Windows Security Center
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Monitors critical security components on your computer such as the firewall, antivirus, etc.
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Microsoft Office 2007 (Office) |
A collection of software programs. |
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Program Window |
is the rectangle that contains the open program tools for working with the file and the work area. |
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Office Button |
contains commands for working with files, including commands for opening, saving, printing, and creating new files. |
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Quick Access ToolBar |
provides access to commonly used commands |
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Title Bar |
Shows the names of the program and the current file. |
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Sizing buttons |
Change the size of the program window and exits the program. |
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Ribbon |
Contains tabs form which you can choose a variety of commands. |
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Microsoft Office Help button |
Opens the Help window for the program |
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Work Area |
Displays the file you are working on |
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Insertion Point |
Shows where text will appear when you begin typing |
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Scroll Bars |
Shifts other areas of the file into the work area. |
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Status Bars |
Provides information about the current file and process |
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View Buttons |
Change how a file is displayed in the workspace |
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Tabs |
located on the ribbon which organize commands to related tabs. |
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Groups |
Commands in tabs are grouped into these. |
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Button |
to choose a command contains buttons that you click to choose one. |
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Gallery |
Shows the options available for a command. |
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Dialog Box |
is a window that opened on top of the program window. |
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Task Pane |
a pane (like a window Pane) that opens on the right or left side of the program window. |
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Contextual tab |
Appears on the Ribbon Only when you select certain items in a file and they contain commands related to that item. |
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Toolbar |
contains buttons that you can click to perform common tasks. |
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Mini Toolbar |
appears in the work area after you drag the pointer over text while holding down the left mouse button. |
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Shortcut Menu |
appears when you right-click something in the program window. |
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Office Button |
Open, save, and close files with this simple button. |
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File Extension |
which is a series of letters Office adds to the end of a file name that identifies in which program your file was created. |
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Screen Tip |
a box that appears when you point to a button. |
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Internet |
is a net network of computers located all over the world and linked to one another. |
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World Wide Web (Web) |
A system of computers that share information by means of links on Web pages. |
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Link |
is a text (often colored and underlined) or a graphic that you click to jump to another location. |
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Uniform Resource Locators (URL) |
web address. |
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Web Browser |
software to get onto the web |
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Home Page (Start Page) |
first page that opens when you start your browser.
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Word Processing |
The use of computer software to enter and edit text. |
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Office Button |
Click it to open a menu, which contains commands for working with files. |
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Ribbon |
Contains commands for working with the document, organized by tabs. |
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Quick Access Toolbar |
Contains buttons (Icons) for three common commands; you can add additional buttons to it. |
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Insert Point |
Show where text will appear when you begin typing. |
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Status Bar |
Displays information about the current Document and process. |
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View button |
allow you to change views quickly. |
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Zoom slider |
Allows you to increase or decrease the size of the document on-screen. |
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Print Layout |
Shows how a document will look when it is printed; you can work with headers and footers, margins, columns, and graphics, which are all displayed. |
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Full Screen Reading |
Shows text on the screen in a format that is easy to read; the Ribbon is replaced by a small bar called a toolbar that contains only a few relevant commands. |
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Web Layout |
Simulates the way a document will look when it is viewed as a web page; text and graphics appear the way they would in a web browser. |
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Outline |
Displays headings and text in outline form so you can see the structure of your document and reorganize easily; headers and footers, page boundaries, graphics, and backgrounds don not appear. |
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Draft |
Shows only the text of a document; headers and footers, margins, columns, and graphics are not visible. |
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Insertion point |
Where the text appears in a document window. |
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Word wrap |
When the words on a line extend the margins and the text automatically enters onto the next line. |
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Quick access toolbar |
where you can click the save button to save a document. |
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Zoom |
magnify and reduce the document on the screen. |
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Zoom slider |
at the bottom right of the screen, on word, this allows you to zoom in and out easily. |
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Full screen Reading view: |
Removes the Ribbon and the status bar from the screen.
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Toolbar |
contains buttons for performing commands.
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Print Preview |
looking at a document when printed.
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Portrait Orientation |
Longer than it is wide.
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Landscape Orientation: |
Wider than they are long
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Select |
Highlight |
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Dragging |
Highlighting a sentence and then dragging the cursor to highlight more. |
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The Show/Hide ¶ command |
allows you to view hidden marks. |
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Toggling |
Switching between two options by displaying the format and then not. |
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Quick Styles |
Settings that affect how a text looks. |
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Undo |
reverses recent actions |
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Redo |
Redoes previous actions. |
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Repeat |
Repeats the most recent action. |
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Drag-and-Drop |
Select a text and then drag the text to another line. |
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Clipboard |
is a temporary storage place in the computer's memory. |
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Cut |
TO remove selected text and place it on the Clipboard or the Office Clipboard. |
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Copy |
To place a copy of text on the Clipboard or the office Clipboard. |
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Paste |
To copy an item stored on the Clipboard or the Office Clipboard to a location in a file. |
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System Clipboard |
Clipboard. |
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Paste Options |
Commands that appear below and to the right of Pasted Text. |
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Formatting |
The appearance of the text Office. |
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Clipboard |
Is a special clipboard. |
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Replace |
has all the features of the Find command. |
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Find |
Quickly search for a document for a specific phrase or word. |
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Go to |
Allows you to jump to a specific paste of the document.
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Auto Correct |
Corrects common errors. (Capitalization and spelling are some examples) |
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Formatting |
Change the look of the text. |
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Quick Styles |
built in formats for the both text and paragraphs that you can apply by clicking a button in the Styles group on the Home tab. |
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AutoFormat As You Type |
Applies built in formats to text as you type. |
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Autoformat as you type |
this is a feature that automatically applies built-in formats to text as you type. |
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Building Blocks |
document parts that you can create, store, and reuse. |
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Quick parts |
are building blocks you create from frequently used text, such as a name, address, or slogan and save so that you can access them by clicking the quick parts button in the text group on the Insert tab. |
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AutoComplete |
completes the spelling of words in the day month and year.Automatic |
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Spell Checking |
underlines words that may be misspelled or used in wrong context. |
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Contextual Spell Check |
checks the whole document for spelling errors and allows you to correct them with a click. |
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Automatic Grammar Spelling |
this feature checks your document for grammatical errors. |
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Superscript |
a text format where text is raised and smaller than the surrounding text.
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Thesaurus
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useful for finding the synonym of a word in the document.
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Font |
designs of type. |
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Attributes |
(Also known as HOW IT LOOKS), as in the bold, italics, or font size. |
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Font Size |
Is determined by measuring the height of characters in units called points. |
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Points |
The measurement of fonts. |
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Color Palette |
A coordinated set of colors available for use in the document. |
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Font Style |
a formatting feature. |
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Font effects |
Are similar to font styles and can help you enhance or clarify your text. |
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Format Painter |
Copy the format of selected text to other text. |
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Style |
Set of formatting options that have been named and saved. |
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Theme |
A coordinated set of fonts, styles, and colors.
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Margins |
are the blank areas around the top bottom, and the sides of the page. |
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Mirrored Margins |
where instead of left and right margins, the page has inside and outside margins. |
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Inside margins (gutters) |
Is the right margin on the left page or the left margin on the right page. |
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Outside Margin |
is the last margin on the left page and the right margin on the right page. |
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Left-Align |
aligned on the left margin. |
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Right-Align |
aligned on the right margin. |
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Center |
aligned in the center of the left and right margin. |
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Justify |
text distributed evenly throughout the document. |
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Alignment |
Refers to the position of the text between margins. |
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Indent |
is the space between text and a documents margins. |
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First-Line indent |
Only the first line of the paragraph is indented. |
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Hanging indents |
is where the first full line of the text is not indented but the following lines are. |
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Vertical Alignment |
refers to positioning text between the top and the bottom margins of a document. |
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Tab stops (Tabs) |
Mark the place where the insertion point will stop when you press the Tab Key. |
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Leaders: |
Solid dotted lines that fill in the blank space before a tab setting |
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Graphics |
pictures that help illustrate the meaning of the text and make the page more attractive. |
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Object: |
Anything that can be manipulated as a whole. |
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Clipart |
Graphics already drawn and ready for your use in documents. |
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Keywords |
Words typed in the search box that help you find a specific piece of clip art. |
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Selection Rectangle |
the box that appears when an object is selected.
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Sizing Handles |
the squares and circles at the edges of the Selection Rectangle.
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Rotation Handle |
The green circle, usually at the top of the selected object.
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Aspect Ratio |
relationship of the object's height and width.
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Inline Object |
treated as if it were a line in the text.
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Floating Object |
an object that acts as if it is floating.
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Text box |
is a shape specifically designed to hold text.
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Pull Quote |
Text copied from the document and set off in a text box
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Sidebar |
Text that does not appear in a document but adds extra information for the reader and is set off in a text box.
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Callouts |
a special type of label in a drawing that consists of a textbook with an attached line to point to something in the drawing. |
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Diagrama |
Data
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Charts |
represent Data
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Word Art |
Stylized text that is treated as an object.
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Smart Art |
pre designed diagrams.
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Crop |
To remove part of a picture
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