Microsoft Word is the word processing component of the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, excel, PowerPoint, publisher, access, etc). It is used primarily to enter, edit, format, save, retrieve and print documents.
Alignment: refers to the position of lines in a paragraph in relation to the documents left and right margins.
Backspace: deletes data to the left of the insertion point.
Bold: characters in bold appear on the screen in a higher intensity. Bold should be used for emphasis, but like all formatting characteristics, should be used sparingly.
Bullets: special characters or symbols that are used to set off a paragraph.
Centering: the placement of a line of text in the center of the screen or page where the left-most and right-most characters in the line are the same distance from the left and right margins.
Close: closes the document and offers to save the changes you made to the document without exiting the program.
Copy: creates a duplicate of highlighted/selected text and saves to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere.
Cut: removes highlighted/selected text and saves to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere.
Default: A default setting is the software manufacturer's preset option for a particular command or function. Default settings can be changed.
Document: another name for a file created using Microsoft Word.
Font: a style of typeface, such as: Times New Roman, Arial Black, Arial, and Freestyle Script. A font is a set of all the characters available in one typeface and size, including uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation, and numerals.
Font Formatting: changes the appearance of the text. Font formatting includes enhancements such as font style (bold, centering, and underline), font size (12 pt), and font typeface (Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New).
Format Painter: enables you to copy the formatting of one word or paragraph and apply it to another word or paragraph.
Hard Return: You can force Word to end a paragraph and move to the next line by pressing the enter key. The resulting “hidden” command is called a Hard Return.
Indentation: the amount of space measured from the page margin that is applied to a paragraph or an area of a document.
Insertion Point: the point at which the cursor is blinking on the document screen.
Italics: Italicized characters appear on the screen slightly tilted to the right.
Line Spacing: refers to the number of lines used by each line of text. In single-line spacing, each line of text is followed by another line of text, and there are no blank lines in between. In double-line spacing, each line of text is followed by a blank line.
Margin: The amount of blank space, usually measured in inches or characters, above and below and to the right and left of the main body of a document.
Paragraph: A paragraph is any amount of text separated by a hard return. Microsoft Word sees anything from a single word to an entire page of text as a paragraph.
Paste: Adds previously copied or cut text at the insertion point.
Print Preview: Print Preview lets you see how your document will look on the page before it is printed.
Wrapping: Text automatically wraps to the next line when typing in Microsoft Word. The only time you need to hit the enter key is when you want to start a new paragraph.
Alignment: refers to the position of lines in a paragraph in relation to the documents left and right margins.
Backspace: deletes data to the left of the insertion point.
Bold: characters in bold appear on the screen in a higher intensity. Bold should be used for emphasis, but like all formatting characteristics, should be used sparingly.
Bullets: special characters or symbols that are used to set off a paragraph.
Centering: the placement of a line of text in the center of the screen or page where the left-most and right-most characters in the line are the same distance from the left and right margins.
Close: closes the document and offers to save the changes you made to the document without exiting the program.
Copy: creates a duplicate of highlighted/selected text and saves to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere.
Cut: removes highlighted/selected text and saves to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere.
Default: A default setting is the software manufacturer's preset option for a particular command or function. Default settings can be changed.
Document: another name for a file created using Microsoft Word.
Font: a style of typeface, such as: Times New Roman, Arial Black, Arial, and Freestyle Script. A font is a set of all the characters available in one typeface and size, including uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation, and numerals.
Font Formatting: changes the appearance of the text. Font formatting includes enhancements such as font style (bold, centering, and underline), font size (12 pt), and font typeface (Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New).
Format Painter: enables you to copy the formatting of one word or paragraph and apply it to another word or paragraph.
Hard Return: You can force Word to end a paragraph and move to the next line by pressing the enter key. The resulting “hidden” command is called a Hard Return.
Indentation: the amount of space measured from the page margin that is applied to a paragraph or an area of a document.
Insertion Point: the point at which the cursor is blinking on the document screen.
Italics: Italicized characters appear on the screen slightly tilted to the right.
Line Spacing: refers to the number of lines used by each line of text. In single-line spacing, each line of text is followed by another line of text, and there are no blank lines in between. In double-line spacing, each line of text is followed by a blank line.
Margin: The amount of blank space, usually measured in inches or characters, above and below and to the right and left of the main body of a document.
Paragraph: A paragraph is any amount of text separated by a hard return. Microsoft Word sees anything from a single word to an entire page of text as a paragraph.
Paste: Adds previously copied or cut text at the insertion point.
Print Preview: Print Preview lets you see how your document will look on the page before it is printed.
Wrapping: Text automatically wraps to the next line when typing in Microsoft Word. The only time you need to hit the enter key is when you want to start a new paragraph.
