Microsoft Word Vocabulary Terms

Default page margins

1" top and bottom, 1 1/4" left and Right, this refers to the amount of non-printable space on a page. The Margins that is automatically used for each document

Scroll bar

A bar at the right side or bottom of the screen that allows you to move up and down or left and right in a document or a worksheet.

insertion point

A blinking vertical line that indicates where the next character typed will be placed.

Undo button

A button on the Quick Access toolbar that you can click to undo (or reverse) your last action.

bibliography

A document showing all the sources used to research information.(Author or publisher, or on a specific subject)

blue underline

A feature in Microsoft suggesting a word is spelled correctly but does not seem to be the correct word for the sentence.

green underline

A feature in Microsoft that suggests the grammar is incorrect or should be revised

resume

A form used by a potential employee to tell an employer what your education, skills and qualifications are for a job.

right-aligned

A format where the right edge of the paragraph is straight and the left edge is jagged

Hanging Indent

A paragraph format in which the first full line of text is not indented but the following lines are indented

footnote

A printed note or definition placed below the text at the bottom of the page

research paper

A research paper is the culmination and final product of an involved process of research, critical thinking, source evaluation, organization, and composition.

works cited

A source, Giving credit to the person who wrote something. (last name, first name. Title in italics. Where it was published: publisher, year published. Type of resource.)

Quick Access Toolbar

A toolbar located in the upper-left corner of the program window, which displays the Save, Undo, and Repeat buttons by default but can be customized to include any command.

synonym

A word that is similar in meaning to another word (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness).

antonym

A word that means the opposite of another word

footer

An area at the bottom of a slide in which you can enter a date, slide number, or other information.

Ribbon

An area at the top of an Office program window that contains commands for working with the open file; the commands are organized under tabs

Word AutoCorrect Options

An automatic feature in software that corrects common spelling and capitalization errors, and can replace certain designated characters with special symbols.

Home tab

Contains the more frequently used commands. In Word it consists of the clipboard, font, paragraph, styles and editing groups. Access it contains the views, clipboard, font, rich text, records, sort and filter and find groups. In PowerPoint a tab that contains the Clipboard, Slides, Font, Paragraph, Drawing and Editing groups. Excel it includes clipboard, font, alignment, number, styles, cells and editing groups.

plagiarize

Copying, "lifting," or making slight changes to some or all of someone else's work and saying you created it.

paragraph formatting

Formatting that affects an entire paragraph, including paragraph and line spacing.

character formatting

Formatting, such as font color, that affects only individual characters or words, and that is not necessarily applied to an entire paragraph.

groups

In the DBQ essay, you need at least 2-3 of these, which allow you to answer the question by analyzing comparisons between documents.

Quick parts

Insert reusable pieces of content including fields, document properties such as title and author, or create preformatted snippets you create.

Microsoft Clipboard

It allows you to copy up to 24 multiple text and graphical items from Office documents or other programs and paste them into another Office document. By using it, you can arrange the copied items the way that you want in the document.

letterhead

Letterhead is stationery that is used instead of the return address in a business letter consists of the business name, address, phone/fax/email, and logo.

parenthetical citations

MLA in-text citation typically consisting of the source author's name and a page number or in the case of no author, a key word from the title

building blocks

Microsoft offices document items that are save using the quick part tool so they can be reused in documents

American Psychological Association (APA)

Popular documentation style for research papers.

double-space

Pressing the enter key twice (2) leaving one blank line. This can also refer to line spacing using the word processing feature to leave one blank line between each line of text.

Modern Language Association of America (MLA)

Publishes a manual of formal and style for research papers

Formatting marks

Special symbols, representing spaces, tabs, and paragraphs, that do not appear on paper when a document is printed.

paragraph spacing

The amount of space before or after a paragraph in a Word document

proofreading

The careful scrutiny of a document, paying especially close attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word choice

blank document

The default template for a new blank Word document; A type of document used for typing words or phrases; A blank sheet

Font group

Under the Home tab; contains the buttons to format appearance of font in text. (Example: font, font size, increase font, decrease font, clear formatting, bold, italics, underline, strike through, subscript, superscript, change case, highlight, font color)

background repagination

Word performs page recomputation between keystrokes, in between the pauses in your typing.

thesaurus

a feature in Microsoft Office that allows the user to view synonyms and antonyms, and automatically replace words for enhanced writing

red underline

a feature in Microsoft that indicates either a possible spelling error or that Word doesn't recognize a certain word.

template

a feature that includes pre-made documents that allow the user to fill-in-the blanks to create new documents, such as calendars, invoices, reports, resumes, etc.; enhances user's efficiency and creativity

Styles

a gallery of predefined formatting combinations, such as fonts, colors, and paragraph formatting, that can be applied to elements on a document, spreadsheet, or slide

Microsoft Words

a graphical word processing program that users can type with.

works cited page

a list of all the sources cited in a research paper (sources you acknowledge by including parenthetical citations/internal citation)

endnote

a note at the end of the document or section that is used to cite references or to give more information

Microsoft Office Clipboard

allows you to copy up to 24 multiple text and graphical items from Office documents or other programs and paste them into another Office document; to copy and paste text or images

automatic page breaks

automatically inserted by Word when you type a document that exceeds one page

header

content in the top margin area of a page in a document, spreadsheet, or slide, that typically contain elements such as the title, page number, or name of the author

content controls

labeled spaces that allow you to create a form

line spacing

the amount of space between lines of text