Key Terms

1. WYSIWYG: short for "what you see is what you get". Basically, in a word processor, words appear on the screen almost exactly as they will appear on a printed page.
2. Justification: the alignment of text on a line
3. Headers: a block that appears at the top of every page in a document, displaying repetitive information like a chapter title.
4. Footers: block of information that appears on the bottom of every page in a document, displaying repetitive information such as an automatically calculated page number
5. Stylesheets: custom styles for each of the common elements in a document
6. Automatic Footnoting: a word processing feature that places footnotes where they belong on the page
7. Automatic Hyphenation: a word-processing feature that divides long words that fall at the end of lines
8. Automatic Formatting: (autoformat): a word processing feature that applies formatting to the text
9. Automatic Correction (autocorrect): a word processing feature that catches and corrects common typing errors
10. wizards: a software help agent that walks the user through a complex process
11. HTML: an HTML document is a text file that includes codes that describe the format, layout, and logical structure of a hypermedia document.
12. Outliners: software that facilitates the arrangement of information into hierarchies or levels of ideas. some word processors include outline views that serve the same function of separate outliners.
13. Outline View: the outliner option built into Microsoft Word, which enables the user to examine and restructure the overall organization of a document, while showing each topic in as much detail as you need.
14. Thesaurus: a synonym finder; often included with a word processor
15. Spelling Checker: a built-in component of a word-processor or a separate program that compares words in a document with words in a disk-based dictionary, and flags words not in the dictionary. may operate in batch mode, checking all the words at once, or interactive mode, checking one word at a time.
16. Grammar and Style Checker: component of a word-processing software that analyzes each word in context, checking for content errors, common grammatical errors, and stylistic problems
17. Mail merge: a feature of a word processor or other program that enables it to merge names and addresses from a database mailing list into personalized form letters and mailings.
18. Groupware: softare designed to be used by work groups rather than individuals
19. Speech-recognition software: the identification of spoken words and sentences by a computer, making it possible for voice input to be converted into text files.
20. Desktop Publishing (DTP): software used mainly to produce print publications.
21. Source documents: in DTP, the articles, chapters, maps, drawings, charts, and photographs that are to appear in the publication
22. page-layout software: in desktop publishing, software used to combine various source documents into a coherent, visually pleasing publication
23. kerning: the spacing between letter pairs in a document
24. leading: the spacing between lines of text
25. templates: in DTP, professionally designed empty documents that can be adapted to specific user needs.
26. spot color: the relatively easy use of a single color (or sometimes two) to add interest to a DTP product
27. full-color: a desktop-published document that uses a wide range of color
28. camera-ready: typeset quality pages, ready to be photographed and printed
29. Portable document format (PDF): allows documents of all types to be stored, viewed, or modified on any Windows or Mactinosh computer, making it possible for many organizations to reduce paper flow
30. electronic book: a handheld device that displays digital representations of the contents of books
31. electronic paper: a flexible, portable, paper-like display
32. spreadsheet software: enables the users to control numbers, manipulating them in various ways. this software can manage budgeting, investment management, business projections, grade books, scientific simulations, checkbooks, financial planning and speculation, and other tasks involving numbers
33. worksheet: a spreadsheet document that appears on the screen as a grid of numbered rows and columns
34. columns: along with rows, comprise the grid of a spreadsheet
35. cell: the intersection of a row and column on the grid of a spreadsheet
36. address: in a spreadsheet, the location of a cell, determined by row number and column number
37. value: the numbers that are the raw material used by spreadsheet software to perform calculations
38. labels: in a spreadsheet, a text entry that provides information on what a column or row represents.
39. formula: step-by-step procedure for calculating a number on a spreadsheet
40. replication: automatic replication of values, labels and formulas, a feature of spreadsheet software
41. automatic recalculation: a spreadsheet capability that allows for easy correction of errors and makes it easy to try out different values while searching for solutions
42. functions: a predefined set of calculations such as SUM and AVERAGE in spreadsheet software
43. macros: custom-designed, embedded procedure program that automates tasks in application programs
44. automatic links: a link between worksheets in a spreadsheet that ensures a change in one worksheet is reflected in another
45. equation solver: a feature of some spreadsheet programs that determines data values
46. pie charts: a round, pie-shaped chart that show the relative proportions of the parts to the whole
47. modeling: the use of computers to create abstract models of objects, organisms, organizations, and processes
48. abstraction: a set of concepts and ideas designed to mimic some kind of system
49. scientific visualization software: uses shape, color, location in space, brightness and motion to help understand relationships that are invisible to us. can come in forms of numerical data or graphical representations.
50. statistics: the science of collecting and analyzing data