Tech Vocab - January 2012
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mrsberlage on January 7, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hardware | The physical equipment of a computer system that you can touch |
| Flash drive, Jump Drive, or USB flash drive | a data storage device that we plug into our computer to save documents on? |
| Hard Copy | a paper copy of a document or file |
| Back Up | A copy of data for the purpose of protecting against loss if the original data is lost |
| Software | The parts of the computer you cannot touch. The part of the computer that tells it what to do |
| Row | appears horizontally in a worksheet and is identified by numbers on the left side of the worksheet window |
| Column | appears vertically in a worksheet and is identified by letters at the top of the worksheet window |
| Alignment | to line up text or pictures on the right, the left or the center of a document |
| Fill | Background color of a picture, text box or diagram |
| Cell | One of the boxes in a table or an Excel document |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| Toolbar | at the top or bottom of the screen, displays buttons you can click to quickly choose a command |
| Link | you click on it to connect one page on the internet to another |
| Favorites | where often-used websites are saved on an internet browser |
| DOC | The three-letter extension that tells a user that a document was saved in Word |
| Cursor | arrow-like icon on the desktop that moves with the mouse, showing where the mouse is pointing |
| spell check | To check the document for spelling errors. |
| Font | Font is the style of how the letters look as they are typed. |
| Indent | To use the tab key to start writing or typing a short distance in from the margin. |
| Double Click | To click two times quickly |
| Desktop | It is the screen that is displayed in the background. You can click on different programs from this screen to start working on the computer. |
| Right click | Right click means to click on the right button on the mouse. It shows a special menu to do things like copy, cut, paste, etc. |
| Taskbar | the gray bar at the bottom of the desktop showing what programs are open |
| Icon | Icons are the small images that you double click on to start a program. |
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