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Word processing software

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Often called a word processor and is one of the most commonly used types of software in homes, schools, and business

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Ribbon

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Commands on the ____ enable you to create, modify, and enhance documents

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Title bar

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Indicates the file name of the current document and includes Windows control buttons and access to Word help Also the location of the Quick Access Toolbar

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Quick Access Toolbar

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Makes it easy to save a document, and to undo or redo recent commands

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Status bar

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Keeps you apprised of information such as word and page count, and the current position within the document

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View buttons

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At the right side of the status bar enable you to change the view of a document, and dragging the zoom slider enlarges or reduces the onscreen size of a document

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Scroll bars

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Horizontal and vertical bars that allow you to scroll through a document

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Templates

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Library of predesigned documents

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Word wrap

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Feature that automatically pushes words to the next line when you reach the right margin

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Hard return

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Created when you press Enter at the end of a line or paragraph

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Soft return

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Created by Word as it wraps text from one line to the next

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Soft returns

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Not considered characters and cannot be deleted

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Hard returns

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Actually a nonprinting character, called a paragraph mark, that you can delete

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Hard return

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Word defines a paragraph as text that ends in a ___ ___

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Insertion point

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Indicates where the text you type will be inserted

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Red wavy line

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A word that is considered by Word to be misspelled is underlined with a ____

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Blue wavy line

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A possible grammatical mistake or word usage error is underlined in ____

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Watermark

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Text or graphics that displays behind the text that is often used to display a very light, washed-out logo for a company to indicate the status of a document

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Header

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Consists of one or more lines at the top of each page

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Footer

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Displays at the bottom of each page

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Symbol

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Text, graphic, or a foreign language character that can be inserted into a document

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Nonbreaking hyphen

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A symbol that keeps words from dividing between lines in a document

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Nonbreaking space

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A symbol inserted when you do not want words divided between lines

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Margin

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The area of blank space that displays left, right, top, and bottom of a document, between the text and the edge of the paper

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Portrait

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Orientation that is taller than it is wide

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Landscape

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Orientation that is wider than it is tall

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Read mode

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Primarily used for reading, with a document shown in pages, much like a magazine The Ribbon is hidden, with only a limited number of menu selections shown

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Print layout view

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Shows margins, headers, footers, graphics, and other page features-- much like a document will look when printed

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Web layout view

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Shows a document as it would appear on a Web page

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Outline view

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Shows level of organization and detail You can collapse or expand detail to show only what is necessary Often used as a springboard for a table of contents or a PowerPoint summary

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Draft view

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Provides the most space possible for typing It does not show margins, headers, or other features, but it does include the Ribbon

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AutoRecover

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If Word crashes when this is enabled, the program will be able to recover a previous version of your document when you restart the program

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10 minutes

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By default, AutoRecover saves your information how often?

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Document inspector

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What you run to reveal any hidden or personal data in the file

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Document panel

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What you use to display descriptive information

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Font

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A combination of typeface and type style

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3 or fewer

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Number of fonts you should typically use in a document

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Calabri 11 pt

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Default font

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Live preview

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The feature whereby you can preview the effect of a formatting selection

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1/72

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Each point size is equivalent to ___ of an inch

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Thin lines

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A definitive characteristic of any font is the presence of ___ ___ that end the main strokes of each letter

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Serif font

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Contains a thin line or extension at the top and bottom of the primary strokes on characters

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Times New Roman

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Example of a serif font

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Sans serif font

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Does not contain the thin lines on characters

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Arial

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Example of a sans serif font

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Serifs

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Help the eye connect one letter with the next and generally are used with large amounts of text

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Sans serifs

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More effective with smaller amounts of text such as titles, headlines, corporate logos, and Web pages

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Monospaced font

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Uses the same amount of horizontal space for every character regardless of its width Used in tables and financial projections where text must be precisely aligned, one character underneath another

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Proportional font

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Allocates space according to width of the character Create a professional appearance and are appropriate for most documents, such as research papers, status reports, and letters

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TrueType

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Can be scaled to any size Any output device, such as a printer, that Windows supports can recognize this type of font

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OpenType

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An advanced form of font that is designed for all platforms, including Windows and Macintosh Incorporate a greater extension of the basic character set

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Mini Toolbar

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Contains several of the most commonly used accessed formatting and alignment commands, that makes it convenient to quickly select a format

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Text effects and typography gallery

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Provides access to those effects as well as to WordArt styles, number styles, ligatures, and stylistic sets that you can apply to text

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Ligature

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Two letters that are crafted together into a single character, or glyph

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Stylistic set

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A collection of letter styles that you can apply to OpenType fonts

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Left alignment

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Text begins evenly at the left margin and ends in an uneven right edge

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Right alignment

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A setting in which text is aligned at the right margin with a ragged left edge

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Centered

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Paragraph that is horizontally located in the center, an equal distance from the left and right edges

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Justified

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Spreads text evenly between the left and right margins so that text begins at the left margin and ends uniformly at the right margin

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Paragraph spacing

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The amount of space between paragraphs measured in points

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Line spacing

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The amount of space between lines

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Indent

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A setting associated with how part of the paragraph is distanced from one or more margins

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First line indent

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The first line of each paragraph is set off from the left margin One of the most common indents

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Hanging indent

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Where the first line of a source begins at the left margin, but all the other lines in the source are indented

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Left indent

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Indenting an entire paragraph from the left margin

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Right indent

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Indenting an entire paragraph from the right margin

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Tab

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A marker that specifies a position for aligning text

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0.5"

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By default, a left tab is set every ___ when you start a new document

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Ruler

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The easiest way to set tabs

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Border

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A line that surrounds a paragraph, a page, a table, or an image

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Shading

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A background color that appears behind text in a paragraph, a page, or a table

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Numbered list

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Used if the list is a sequence of steps

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Bulleted list

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Used if the list is a simple itemization of points

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Left tab

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Sets the start position on the left so as you type Text moves to the right of the tab setting

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Center tab

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Sets the middle point of the text you type Whatever you type will be centered on that tab setting

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Right tab

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Sets the start position on the right side so as you type Text moves to the left of that tab setting and aligns on the right

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Decimal tab

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Aligns numbers on a decimal point

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Bar tab

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This tab does not position text or decimals Inserts a vertical bar at the tab setting Useful as a separator for text printed on the same line

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Document theme

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A set of coordinating fonts, colors, and special effects, such as shadowing or glows that are combined into a package to provide a stylish appearance

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Section break

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A marker that divides a document into sections

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Next page section break

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Text that follows must begin at the top of the next page

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Continuous section break

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Text that follows can continue on the same page

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Even page section break

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Text that follows must begin at the top of the next even-numbered page

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Odd page section break

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Text that follows must begin at the top of the next odd-numbered page

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Columns

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Format a document or section of a document into side-by-side vertical blocks in which the text flows down the first column and continues at the top of the next column

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Style

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A named collection formatting characteristics

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Character style

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Formats one or more selected characters within a paragraph, often applying font formats found in the Font group on the Home tab

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Paragraph style

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Changes the entire paragraph in which the insertion point is located, or changes multiple selected paragraphs

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Linked styles

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Both character and paragraph formatting are included

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Normal style

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A paragraph style with specific font and paragraph formatting

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Object

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An item that can be individually selected and manipulated within a document

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Contextual tab

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Displays on the Ribbon with options related to the selected object, making it easy to quickly modify and enhance an object

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Picture

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A graphic image, such as a drawing or photograph

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Clip art

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What Microsoft refers to its royalty-free photos and illustrations

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In line with text

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The image is still part of the line of text in which it is inserted

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Square

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Text wraps on all sides of an object, following an invisible square

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Tight

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Text follows the shape of an object, but does not overlap the object

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Through

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Text follows the shape, filling any open spaces in the shape

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Top and bottom

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Text flows above and below the borders of the object

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Behind text

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The object is positioned behind text

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In front of text

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The object is positioned in front of text, often obscuring the text

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Live layout

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Enables you to watch text flow around an object as you move it

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Alignment guides

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Horizontal and vertical green bars that appear as you drag an object, so you can line up an object with text or another object

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Sizing handle

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Resizing a picture with the corners

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Contrast

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Adjusting this increases or decreases the difference in dark and light areas of the image

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Brightness

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Adjusting this lightens or darkens the overall image

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Text box

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A graphical object that contains text

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WordArt

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A feature that modifies text to include special effects, including colors, shadows, gradients, and 3D effects

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Table

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A grid of columns and rows that organizes data

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Cell

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The intersection of each column and row

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Tab

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Simply press what to begin to a new row

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Insert control

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This button appears by pointing to the edge of a row or column gridline and it inserts rows or columns by clicking

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Row height

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The vertical distance from the top to the bottom of a row

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Row width

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The horizontal space from the left to the right edge of a column

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Table alignment

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Refers to the position of a table between the left and right document margins

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Left margin

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When you insert a table, Word automatically aligns it to what margin?

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Cell margins command

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Enables you to adjust the amount of white space inside a cell as well as spacing between cells Located in the Alignment group

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Formula

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A calculation that can add, subtract, divide, or multiply cell contents

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Functions

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Built-in formulas, to simplify the task of performing basic calculations

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Letters

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Columns are labeled with?

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Numbers

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Rows are labeled with?

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Order of operations/precedence

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Operations are evaluated in order from highest to lowest

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Parenthesis

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To force addition to occur first, use what around the terms that should be calculated first?

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Range

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A series of adjacent cells

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Argument

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The positional information within parenthesis

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Sum function

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Totals a series of cells

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Average function

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Averages a series of cells

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Count function

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Counts the number of entries in a series of cells

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Max function

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Displays the largest number in a series of cells

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Min function

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Displays the smallest number in a series of cells

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Border

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A line style you can apply to individual cells, an entire table, or to individual areas within a table

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Border painter

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A tool that enable you to easily apply border settings you have identified to one or more table borders

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Shading

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Applies color or pattern to the background of a cell or group of cells

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Caption

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A numbered item of text that identifies a table, figure, or other object in a Word document

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Ctrl+A

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Selecting all the text in a document

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Mail merge

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Process that combines content from a main document and a data source, with the option of creating a new document

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Form letter

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A document that is often mass produced and sent to multiple recipients

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Merge fields

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A placeholder for a variable data, which might include a recipient's address or a salutation directed to a particular person

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Data source

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Contains variable data that is combined with the main document to produce personalized documents

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Wizard

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Guides you through a process one step at a time, asking questions, and using the responses to direct the end result

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Identify the type of document you are producing

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First step in the mail merge process?

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Field

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The smallest data element in a table

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Record

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A group of fields for a particular person or thing, presented as a row in the data source

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Header row

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The first row in the data source and identifies the fields in the remaining rows

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Word document Access database Excel worksheet Outlook

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4 places a date source can be obtained from

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Angle brackets

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Merge fields display in the main document within ____?

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Style manual

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A set of standards for designing documents

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Plagiarizing

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To steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own

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Current List

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Includes all citation sources you use in the current document

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Master List

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A database of all citation sources created in Word on a particular computer

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Footnote

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A citation or note that appears at the bottom of a page

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Endnote

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Serves the same purpose as a footnote but appears at the end of the document

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Arabic numerals

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Footnotes are numbered with?

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Lowercase Roman numerals

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Endnotes are numbered with?

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Simple Markup

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Word feature that simplifies the display of comments and revision marks, resulting in a clean, uncluttered look

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PDF

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Format that accurately represents all page elements

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Track changes

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Feature that keeps track of all additions, deletions, and formatting changes made to the document

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PDF

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Word feature that converts a PDF document into an editable Word document

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Sky Drive

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Online storage and sharing utility

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7GB

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How many GB of free storage are available with SkyDrive

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Windows 8 SkyDrive app

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An application specifically designed to run in the Start screen interface of Windows 8 that is either already installed and ready to use or can be downloaded from the Windows store

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Skydrive for Windows app

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A downloadable app that synchronizes documents between a computer and SkyDive storage so that documents in both locations remain up to date

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Word web app

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An online component of Office Web Apps presenting a free, although limited, version of Word 2013

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