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What is The Depot?
A peripheral device used to visually display the information on your computer
What is a monitor?
A software company offering dozens of products that Taft uses, including (but not limited to) SecureSend, Forte, DocXCompare, and Best Authority
What is Litera?
The keyboard shortcut to save changes to your document
What is Ctrl+S?
This keyboard shortcut allows you to copy highlighted text to your (virtual) clipboard
What is Ctrl+C?
Improving yourself through learning and training to advance your career
What is Professional Development?
A peripheral device used to point to and click on items on your monitor
What is a mouse?
The Litera product Taft uses to securely transfer files containing sensitive information, and/or files that are too large to send via email
What is SecureSend?
A feature in Microsoft Word that automates document formatting
What are Styles?
A document, usually 1-2 pages, provided by Training for you to reference easily while you're working
What is a Quick Reference Guide?
Learning conducted via electronic media, typically on the internet
What is e-learning?
A program used to browse the internet, such as Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome
What is a web browser?
The Litera product Taft uses within Microsoft Word that contains a library of document templates
What is Forte?
The standard file extension for a Word document since 2007
What is .docx?
This peripheral allows you to connect your laptop to your monitor display and other hardware
What is a docking station?
The strategy of incorporating elements of game play (points, leaderboards, etc.) to boost engagement in a particular product or service
What is gamification?
Any of a number of hardware devices (such as keyboards, printers, speakers, etc.) connected to a computer
What is a peripheral?
A component of Litera Forte that allows users to set their preferred default configurations for document templates
What is Author Preferences?
The location in Word that contains the Font, Paragraph, and Styles button groups
What is the Home Ribbon?
The location in Microsoft Word where you can access Litera Forte tools to use, customize, and modify document templates
What is the Create ribbon?
Learning undertaken by employees to expand their current skillset to keep up with the evolving needs of the company
What is upskilling?
The primary location on a Windows PC to access your installed programs and access files and folders
What is the Start Menu?
A Litera product that allows users to save clauses or even entire documents to be anonymized and re-used over and over again
What is Content Library?
The feature in Word allows you to keep track of document edits and comments
What is Track Changes?
This button in Word allows you to show or hide paragraph and other formatting markers
What is the Paragraph button?