Managing Your Files
Word Processing Definitions
Word Processing
Formatting Documents Definitions
Miscellaneous
100
How does the computer distinguish one drive from another?
What is by assigning each drive a letter
100
A blinking vertical line that indicates where the next character typed will be placed
What is the insertion point
100
A computer application used to create, modify, print, and email documents
What is a word processor
100
Changes where one page ends and another begins.
What is a page break
100
When the first line of a paragraph is farther to the right than the rest of the lines in the paragraph it is called what?
What is a first line indent
200
What type of computer storage is the most popular?
What is the hard disk
200
Text that is reduced in size and lowered to the bottom of the current line
What is subscript
200
How can the last action performed be reversed?
What is by pressing Undo
200
Specifies a location within a line of text
What is a tab stop
200
Name the four different types of tab stops and describe each one (what it looks like, and what happens to text when you create one)
What is - Left tab stop (looks like an L--the beginning of the text aligns with the tab stop) - Right tab stop (looks like a backwards L--the end of the text aligns with the tab stop) - Centered tab stop (looks like an upside down T--the center of the text aligns with the tab stop) - Decimal tab stop (looks like an upside down T with a decimal point (or dot) on the right side of it--the decimal point in the text aligns with the tab stop)
300
What type of disk is permanently stored on a computer?
What is hard disk or fixed disk
300
A designated area in memory where cut and copied text is placed
What is the Clipboard
300
The green wavy line under a word indicates
What is that there is a possible grammatical error
300
A paragraph format that adds more space between each line of text (hint: teachers like essays to have this)
What is double spaced
300
Shows what the printouts will look like
What is previewing a document
400
What are two examples of removable media/disks?
What is USB drived, compact discs (CD's), and digital video discs (DVD's)
400
A format where both sides of a paragraph are straight
What is Justified
400
Two methods for selecting an entire paragraph of text are
What is - triple-clicking a word in that paragraph - have the insertion point at the beginning of the paragraph, hold the shift key, and click at the end of the paragraph - have the insertion point at the beginning of the paragraph, hold the shift key, and press the right arrow button until it is at the end of the paragraph, then release the shift key - move the pointer to the left of the text and double click - click at the beginning of the paragraph and drag the pointer to the end of the paragraph
400
The white region around the text on a page
What is the margins
400
What does the word Font refer to
What is the shape of characters
500
When you can access a file or folder from all of the computers in school, it is because you saved that file or folder to what drive?
What is the network drive or H:
500
Special symbols, representing spaces, tabs, and paragraphs, that do not appear on paper when a document is printed
What is formatting marks
500
List the four paragraph alignments and describe each one
What is - Left aligned (left edge straight, right edge jagged) - Right aligned (left edge jagged, right edge straight) - Centered (left and right edges of the paragraph are equally distant from the left and right sides of the page) - Justified (creates straight edges at both sides of a paragraph)
500
First line of a paragraph that is farther to the left than the rest of the paragraph
What is hanging indent
500
When searching for the word "hat", how would you avoid finding the word "Hat"?
What is click advanced find--more--match case.
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