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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.

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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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Alignment: When used to describe text, the arrangement of text or graphics relative to a margin. Flush left alignment means that text is lined up along the left margin. Flush right alignment lines up text along the right margin.

application window: The rectangular-shaped viewing area on screen that you are working in. In a graphical user interface , the boundaries of the window can be easily expanded or contracted.

clipboard: The clipboard is a section of RAM where your computer stores copied data. This can be a selection of text, an image, a file, or other type of data.

Default setting: The manufacturer's recommended spring pressure and damping values for a given rider. Many forks and some shocks have their default settings printed near the adjustment controls. The rest are available on the suspension maker's websites or in the owner's manual. ...

Dialog box Launcher: are special windows which are used by computer programs or by the operating system to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed.

Document window: A GUI window which shows a document .

Drag And Drop Editing Describes applications that allow you to drag objects to specific locations on the screen to perform actions on them. For example, in the Macintosh environment, you can drag a document to the trashcan icon to delete it. This is a classic case of drag-and-drop functionality.

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Active window; An active window is the currently focused window in the current window manager or explorer. Different window managers indicate the currently-active window in different ways and allow the user to switch between windows in different ways.

 

Appearance and Personalization category: The Appearance and Personalization category groups many of the most visible changes to the system. Let's work through some of these. Anything I skip is homework. 

application file: A file containing the executable code of an application

 bitmapped graphics:n computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.

cell: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

 data file:A data file is a computer file which stores data for use by a computer application or system. It generally does not refer to files that contain instructions or code to be executed , or to files which define the operation or structure of an application or system  

database: A database is a collection of data for one or more multiple uses. One way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, image. Other classification methods start from examining database models or database architectures: see below. 

datasheet:  A datasheet, data sheet, or spec sheet is a document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product, component 

directory:In computer software, specifically the command line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command 

field:A space allocated for a particular item of information. A tax form, for example, contains a number of fields: one for your name, one for your Social Security number, one for your income, and so on. 

 file properties:  any one of the attributes that are assigned to a particular file, including its name, the date that it was created and its owner, which are all stored in the file’s properties page

gadgets: A gadget is a small technological object that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention. 

hidden file:In computing, a hidden directory or hidden file on a computer is a directory (folder) or file which a user cannot see by default. Hidden directories most often serve to hide important operating system-related files and user preferences

 icon:graphic symbol  that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

Multimedia:transmission that combine media of communication

object: In computer science, an object is any entity that can be manipulated by the commands of a programming language, such as a value , variable, function, or data structure.  

object linking and embedding:Object Linking and Embedding is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control extension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements. 

presentation Software: A presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show.

Primary key:In relational database design, a unique key can uniquely identify each row in a table, and is closely related to the Superkey concept. A unique key comprises a single column or a set of columns. 

query:A set of criteria that is used to retrieve data from the Data Warehouse. Queries are made up of data items to be retrieved and can also have limits set on the scope of the data and/or sorting order specified.

quick launch toolbar:Used to start frequently used applications with just one click.

record spreadsheet:In database terminology, a record holds all the information or data about one specific object that has been entered into the database.

Recycle Bin:In computing, a recycle bin, or trash, is temporary storage for files that have been deleted in a file manager by the user, but not yet permanently erased from the physical media.

Shortcut:a route shorter than the usual one

Sidebar:The Windows Desktop Gadgets  is a widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. It was introduced with Windows Vista, in which it features a sidebar anchored to the side of the desktop. This feature was removed in Windows 7, however, gadgets can snap to the side.  

Software development- is the act of working to produce/create software. This software could be produced for a variety of purposes - the three most common purposes are to meet specific needs of a specific client/business, to meet a perceived need of some set of potential users 

 Software license:A software license  is a legal instrument  governing the usage or redistribution of software. All software is copyright protected, irrespective of whether it is in the public domain.  

software piracy:The copyright infringement of software  refers to several practices which involve the unauthorized copying of computer software. Copyright infringement of this kind is extremely common. 

system file:the System suitcase was one of two principal files comprising Mac OS from the original release to System 9.2.2, the other being the Macintosh Finder. 

System software is computer software designed to operate the computer hardware and to provide and maintain a platform for running application software.

 table: a set of data arranged in rows and columns

text editor: an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files

update: news that updates your information

 

upgrades:an improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology; to improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components; to replace an existing object with something better; to replace a program with a later version of itself, a version .

utility program:a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"

 vector graphics: Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.

web application- In software engineering, a web application is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. 

word-processing software- Computer software program used to create and edit text documents.

workbook:An Excel 2000 file composed of one or more worksheets and additional Visual Basic for Applications code. The RealCost software is a workbook

worksheet:a page in a Microsoft Excel workbook.