NC Online Computer Skills Test Desktop Publishing/Word Processing
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Animated Clipart | A moving clip art graphic. |
| Bold | A style of text that makes a letter or word darker and thicker to stand out in a document. |
| Clipart | Drawings you can add to your documents or presentations. This includes items such as cartoons, maps, symbols, and flags. It is included in some software packages and can also be purchased separately. |
| Delete | A key used to erase characters. |
| Desktop Publishing | Using features of word processing/DTP software to format and produce documents, letters, reports, flyers, and newsletters with graphics. |
| Edit | To make changes in a document or presentation. |
| Font | The shape and style of text. |
| Format | To set the margins, tabs, font or line spacing in layout of a document. |
| GIF (Graphic Interchanging Format) | (Pronounced "jiff.") A file format for pictures, photographs, and drawings that are compressed so that they can be sent across telephone lines quickly. Format widely used on electronic bulletin boards and the Internet and are limited to 256 colors, so they cannot be used for high-end desktop publishing. |
| Graphic | Images/pictures created, edited, and/or published using a computer. |
| Highlight/select | To choose part of a document by clicking and dragging over it with the mouse. |
| Home row | Keys on the keyboard with fingers of the left hand are on A-S-D-F and fingers on the right hand on J-K-L-; |
| Illustration | Clip art, graphics or drawings on a computer. |
| Indent | To set the first line of a paragraph in from the margin in a word processing document. |
| JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) | A standard for shrinking graphics so they can be sent faster between modems and take up less space on your hard drive. These graphics can be reduced to 5 percent of their original size, but the image quality deteriorates. However, compressing graphics to 30 or 40 percent of their original size results in minimal loss of quality. |
| Line Spacing | The span between lines of text |
| Page Setup | The term in reference to the way a document is formatted to print. |
| Thesaurus | A feature in most word processors used to replace a word in a document with one that is more suitable and adds variety to your writing. |
| Word Processing | Using keyboarding skills to produce documents such as letters, reports, manuals, and newsletters. |
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