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100

refers to the position of lines in a paragraph in relation to the documents left and right margins; i.e., whether they are left-aligned, centered, right-aligned, or justified (evenly spaced).


What are justifications?

100

A file is saved for the first time by using this feature.

What is Save-As?

100

When the first letter of a paragraph is larger and stands out.

What is Cap drop?

100

This is what it is called when you have small letters or numbers that appear under the text.

What is subscript? 

100

These go up and down in a table.

What are columns?

200

boxes that are placed around text, pages, images and tables.



What are Borders?

200

A sub screen is show when you see this little square box with an arrow in the bottom corner of a section in the ribbon.

What is Pop-Out window?

200

Takes the shape of an I-beam.  Use this tool to make menu selections and to indicate the location in the document where you want to insert or delete characters.

What is an Insertion Point or Mouse pointer?

200

What is a word processing program that allows for the creation of both simple and sophisticated documents. 

What is Microsoft Word?

200

This makes your whole document larger than the viewing image or smaller to fit the viewing space.

What is Zoom?

300

special characters or symbols that are used to set off a paragraph. Typically, each is an item in a list, and it consists of a symbol and indenting to set the text apart from the rest

What are Bullets?

300

Landscape and Portrait 

What is page orientation?

300

It holds all of the series of tabs that include a variety of program features and on which you find every single Word command.

What is the Ribbon?

300

This allows you to see what your document will look like when you accept different types for formatting

What is a preview screen?

300

These documents are pre-created and allow you to edit them to your needs.

What are templates?

400

it contains the following: open, info, save, save as, history, and print.



What does File tab contains?

400

Sending customized letters using a form letter with a supporting database. 

What is a mail merge? 

400

This command will select all of the words on the document.

What is Ctrl + A?

400

This allows you make your letters artistic.  The icon is the letter "A" on an angle.

What is WordArt?

400

The semitransparent text or image in the background of your document.

What is a Watermark?

500

represented by the paragraph mark it shows you what type of formatting done to the text

What is Show/Hide?

500

Moving text or an image behind another image or graphic.

What is "send to back"?

500

This special type of ribbon only appears when a photo, text box, shape or chart is selected.

What is the formatting ribbon?

500

This grouping of icons at the very top of the screen so that you can quickly access the features without having to search the ribbon.

What is the Quick Access Tool Bar?

500

When you fill in a box in a table with a color.

What is shading?

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