The Word Environment
This is the large area at the top of the window that contains all the commands, organized into tabs and groups.
What is the Ribbon?
This formatting style makes text appear slanted and is often used for emphasis or book titles.
What is Italics?
This alignment option spreads text evenly between the left and right margins, creating straight edges on both sides.
What is Justify?
These are the white spaces or "gutters" around the four edges of the page where text does not usually print.
What are Margins?
This tool allows you to create visual diagrams like flowcharts, Venn diagrams, or organizational charts.
What is SmartArt?
This view is the default view in Word; it shows the document exactly as it will look when printed.
What is Print Layout?
This feature allows you to copy the formatting (font, color, size) of one piece of text and "paint" it onto another.
What is the Format Painter?
This is the amount of white space between lines of text within a paragraph.
What is Line Spacing?
This page setup option allows you to choose between "Portrait" (tall) or "Landscape" (wide).
What is Orientation?
These small circles or squares appear around the edges of a picture when selected, allowing you to change its size.
What are Sizing Handles?
This command is found in the "Backstage View" and is used when you need to change the file name, file type, or save location.
What is Save As?
This effect lowers a character slightly below the line of text, commonly used in chemical formulas like H2O.
What is Subscript?
This specific type of indent moves every line of a paragraph to the right except for the very first line.
What is a Hanging Indent?
The default margin size for a standard "Normal" Word document is this many inches on all sides.
What is 1 inch?
This setting determines how the text flows around an image, such as "Square," "Tight," or "Through."
What is Wrap Text?
This is the default file extension for a modern Microsoft Word document.
What is .doc or .docx?
This is a set of predefined formatting options (like Heading 1 or Title) that can be applied to text to keep it consistent.
What is a Style?
To show non-printing characters like spaces and paragraph breaks, you click this button that looks like a backward 'P'.
What is the Show/Hide button?
This command forces the text that follows it to start at the top of a brand-new page.
What is a Page Break?
To remove the outer parts of a picture that you don't want to see, you use this command.
What is Crop?
Clicking this small arrow in the bottom-right corner of a Ribbon group opens a box with even more advanced settings.
What is a Dialog Box Launcher?
This button on the Home tab removes all bolding, colors, and font changes, returning text to its default look.
What is "Clear All Formatting"?
These are the markers on the horizontal ruler that allow you to align text to specific vertical positions using the "Tab" key.
What are Tab Stops?
This feature allows you to have different formatting (like different margins or columns) within the same document.
What is a Section Break?
This feature allows you to take a "picture" of another open window on your computer and insert it directly into Word.
What is a Screenshot?