Sunday, April 10, 2011

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Ascending Order: Arranged from smallest to largest. Increasing


AutoShape: Its a shape that already exists -- like a square, star, rectangle or circle.


Banner: an advertisement that extends across the width of a web page

Blog: To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog.
Boilerplate Text:  is any text that is or can be reused in new contexts or applications without being changed much from the original.


Building Blocks:A basic unit from which something is built up

Cell:A device containing electrodes immersed in an electrolyte, used for current-generation or electrolysis



Clip Art: Predrawn pictures and symbols that computer users can add to their documents, often provided with word-processing software and drawing packages




Crop: In computer graphics, to cut off the sides of an image to make it the proper size or to remove unwanted parts. Most graphics applications allow you to crop images with a clip feature.


Descending Order: Numbers are said to be in descending order when they are arranged from the largest to the smallest number.



Desktop Publishing: Using a personal computer or workstation to produce high-quality printed documents.




Document Management Server:



Drawing objects: You can add graphics to your worksheets and charts to make them more visually appealing,



Duplex Printing: a feature of computer printers and multifunction printers that allows the automatic printing of a sheet of paper on both sides. Print devices without this capability can only print on a single side of paper.



Encryption: is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key.




Fields: data that has several parts can be divided into fields.




Footer: One or more lines of text that appear at the bottom of every page of a document. Once you specify what text should appear in the footer, the application automatically inserts it.






Graphics:are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain.


Gridlines: are the gray lines that divide each of the cells, rows, and columns in a spreadsheet. An example of gridlines can be seen in the below illustration.




Hard Copy: a permanent reproduction, or copy, in the form of a physical object, of any media suitable for direct use by a person


Header: supplemental data at the beginning of a data block

Manual Column Break: A column break is used in a word processing document where there are columns, to tell the document where to end one column and start a new one, if you want to start a new one before reaching the bottom of the page.




Markup: the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML, although it is not a strict subset.



Merging Cells: To combine two files in such a way that the resulting file has the same organization as the two individual files.




Metadata:Data about data. Metadata describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted.





Microsoft Word: A full-featured word processing program for Windows and Mac from Microsoft. Available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market.




Portable Document Format: a file format developed by Adobe Systems. PDF captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing.



Print Queue: A print queue is a representation of a print device




Quick Tables:  A table that the operating system uses to locate files on a disk.



Read-Only Document:  A read-only file is any file with the read-only attribute turned on.



Section Break:A special character that terminates a section and acts as a repository for the properties of the specified section.

Sizing Handles: a graphical indicator in a Graphical User Interface  that allows users to click and drag on the indicator to resize the object.




Soft Copy:is the unprinted digital document file. This term is often contrasted with hard copy. It can usually be viewed through an appropriate editing program,



Splitting Cells:  The Split Cells command allows you to divide an existing table cell into rows or columns. This may cause the Rows Spanned and Column Spanned table cell properties to change for surrounding cells.


style: In word processing, a named set of formatting parameters.


Text box: A text box's purpose is to allow the user to input text information to be used by the program.


Thumbnails: are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.



Word Processor: a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material.



XML Paper Specification: provides users and developers with a robust, open and trustworthy format for electronic paper.



















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