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Glossary
of Terms
Blocks
- Sections
of text which can, for example, be moved and copied as a single
unit.
- Bold
- A
type style that makes the text to which it is applied heavier
than the surrounding text.
- Bullet
- Mark
used to set off a small block of text or individual items on
a list.
- Clip
Art
- Vector
graphic-based pictures.
- Copy
- To
take a copy of the currently selected items.
- Crop
- To
chop out a section of an image.
- Cut
- To
take a copy and remove the currently selected items.
- Dialog
Box
- Object-orientated
selection facility.
- Embed
- To
copy an object from one document to another.
- Footer
- A
design element that is repeated at the bottom of each page.
Example: page numbers. cf: header.
- Format
- The
structure or appearance of a part of a document. Also to change
the appearance of selected text.
- Font
- A
set of characters available in the same typeface, style, size
and stroke weight.
Example: Arial, Times New Roman.
- Grammar
Checker
- A
tool that checks the grammar within a document and usually tries
to provide guidance as to correct usage.
- Header
- A
section of text which is repeated at the top of every page.
Example: Chapter titles. cf: footer.
- Italic
- A
type style in which the characters have a more cursive appearance
than in a normal typeface and are evenly slanted towards the
right.
- Link
- To
place an object in one or more documents such that alteration
in the source documents gives automatic changes in the destination
documents.
- Menu
Command
- Command
selected from a drop-down menu.
- Merge
- To
combine two or more documents into a single document.
- Non-proportional
- A
set of characters in a particular style and size in which a
fixed amount of horizontal space is allocated to each character.
cf: proportional.
- OCR
- Optical
Character Recognition.
- Orphan
- A
single line of text at the bottom of a page.
cf: Widow.
- Outline
- A
word processing facility which allows the user to concentrate
on the structure and organisation of a document rather than
its format.
- Page
Layout
- The
layout of the page with regard to features such as margins,
headers, footers, page length, page width and page numbers.
- Paste
- To
insert a previously copied or cut section.
- Proportional
- A
set of characters in a particular style and size in which a
variable amount of horizontal space is allocated to each character.
cf: Non-proportional.
- Roman
- A
typeface or type style in which the characters are upright.
Example: Times New Roman.
- Ruler
- Facility
which shows the scaled position of the cursor in the document.
- Sans
serif
- A
typeface with a more geometric appearance than a serif typeface,
ie. it does not contain serifs. Used more frequently in display
type such as headlines.
Example: Arial. cf: Serif.
- Scale
- To
change the size of an image in proportion to the original.
- Search
- The
software looks for a specific combination of characters from
a point selected by the user.
- Search
and Replace
- Matched
words will be replaced with another word or combination of words.
- Serif
- A
typeface whose characters contain short lines or ornaments at
the upper and lower ends of the stroke. Considered easier to
read for large bodies of text.
Example: Times New Roman. cf: Sans serif.
- Subscript
- Text
- usually in a smaller point size - positioned below the normal
base line.
- Superscript
- Text
- usually in a smaller point size - positioned above the normal
base line.
- Template
- A
preformatted page layout which can contain headers, footers
and embedded objects.
- Thesaurus
- A
word processing facility that allows the user to find alternatives
to a given word.
- Toggle
- To
alternate between two states.
Example: Bold on, bold off.
- Toolbar
- A
pictorial menu of buttons.
- Typeface
- A
specific named design of a set of printed characters.
Example: Times New Roman.
- Widow
- A
single line of text at the top of a page or column.
cf: Orphan.
- Word
Wrap
- Automatic
wrapping of a sentence onto the next line without the need for
a carriage return.
- Zoom
In/Out
- Viewing
a window at different levels of magnification.
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