AutoCorrect

1. AutoCorrect The AutoCorrect feature enables Word to spot and fix many typing mistakes as soon as you make them. You can customize AutoCorrect to suit your needs. For example, you can add your own unique typing errors to AutoCorrect, and it will then fix them for you automatically. You can also delete items from the AutoCorrect list.

2. Clipboard The Cut, Copy, and Paste commands use a special area of your computer's memory called the Clipboard to store data that you cut or copy. The data you cut or copy remains on the Clipboard as long as your computer is running or until it is overwritten by another piece of cut or copied data.

3. Copy The Copy command allows you to make a copy of the selected data (instead of removing it from the document) so you can then paste the copied data elsewhere.

4. Cut The Cut command lets you remove selected data from a document and then paste it elsewhere in the same document, in a different document, or in a different application.

5. Documents Documents created by Microsoft are files created by word processing programs such as letters, resumes, newsletters, papers, memos, etc. A document can contain text alone; however, it can also include graphics, tables, and other features.

6. Edit The edit feature allows you to make changes to an existing document.

7. File A saved document with a unique name is called a file.

8. File type Each program saves a file in a unique way. Each different file type has a unique file name extension (what appears after the dot). For example, hello.doc is a word document with the file name hello and the extension .doc.

9. Find The Find command searches for the text you specify. When Word finds the text, it stops and highlights it in the document window.

10. Grammar checker The Grammar tool finds grammatical errors and suggests ways to fix them.

11. Insertion point When Microsoft Word displays a blinking vertical line, it shows you where the next character will be inserted in the document. As you type, the insertion point moves across the screen and each letter you type appears right behind the insertion point.

12. Insert mode In Insert mode (Word's default mode), you enter new text within existing text. The old text is pushed to the right as you type the new characters.

13. Overtype mode In Overtype mode, you type over existing text, replacing it with new text.

14. Paste The Paste command inserts cut or copied data into the same document or into a different document.

15. Placeholders A placeholder is a position in a template where you can enter information quickly and it will already be formatted for you according to the template design.

16. Replace The Replace command lets you search for specific text and then replace it with different text.

17. Save When you tell the computer to permanently on a disk.

18. Spelling checker The Spelling tool finds possible spelling errors and then suggests ways to fix the errors.

19. Template A template is a special type of file that is already formatted and may contain some text. Word has many built in templates that you can use to create letters, memos, resumes, and other types of documents quickly.

20. Thesaurus Word suggests several other words that have similar meanings to the word you selected when you choose Thesaurus. This can add more variety and punch to your writing.

21. Alignment Alignment is a paragraph's relationship to the page's right and left margins.

22. Border A border is a line you place around a paragraph or along any one or more of its sides.

23. Bullet Each item in a bulleted list is introduced by a small graphic called a bullet. By default, Word uses a small dot as the bullet.

24. Character Style Character styles are styles applied to characters only. Character styles can be applied to individual characters, such as a word or a letter.

25. Font A font is a complete set of alphabetical characters (including the letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols) based on the same, unique design. Fonts have names such as Times, Helvetica, and Tahoma. Some people use the term typeface when referring to a font.

26. Font Style The most commonly used font styles are bold italic, and underline.

27. Footer A footer is a line of text that appears at the bottom of each page.

28. Formatting Formatting means changing the way a document looks without changing the information within the document.

29. Header A header is a line of text that appears at the top of each page in a document.

30. Indent The amount of space between a paragraph and the right or left margin is called an indent.

31. Line spacing Line spacing is the amount of vertical space between the lines within a paragraph.

32. Page break A page break is a marker that indicates the end of the current page and the start of a new one.

33. Paragraph A paragraph is any text that is followed by a paragraph mark.

34. Paragraph spacing When you reset the amount of spacing before and after a paragraph you are changing the paragraph spacing.

35. Paragraph style Paragraph styles can be applied to one or more entire paragraphs.

36. Point Paragraph spacing is measured in points. One point equals 1/72 inch.

37. Shading Shading appears as a gray or colored background behind the paragraph.

38. Style A style is a named set of formatting characteristics. Using styles lets you format individual characters or entire paragraphs with just a few mouse clicks. Styles help you give a consistent look to different parts of a document.

39. Tab A tab is an amount of space by which text is indented from the left margin. You can use tabs to align text in various ways. For example, if you place a tab stop one-half inch from the left margin and then press the Tab key, your text will be aligned at that point.

40. Cell When a row and column intersect in a table, the resulting box is called a cell.

41. Character effects There are 11 character effects that any font can have. They change the way a font appears. The effects include strikethrough, double strikethrough, superscript, subscript, shadow, outline, emboss, engrave, small caps, all caps, and hidden.

42. Chart A chart is a graphic that visually present numerical data.

43. Clip art Clip art is a set of images and graphics that are usually license free, meaning you can freely use them in any document that you do not plan to sell. A set of Clip art images comes with Word automatically or you can download them from the Microsoft Web site.

44. Datasheet To build a chart, you enter numeric data in a special table called a datasheet. It looks like a simple spreadsheet.

45. Diagram A diagram lets you illustrate conceptual information rather than numeric information.

46. Highlight Using the highlight feature, you can make selected text stand out by giving it a colored background.

47. Landscape orientation Landscape orientation is when information prints across the wider dimension of the page.

48. Margin A margin is the blank space along the page's top, bottom, right, and left edges, where text cannot be printed (with the exception of headers, footers, and page numbers).

49. Merge The merge feature allows you to make a group of cells into one single cell within a table.

50. Organization chart An organization chart shows how a company's departments or staff are structured, or any hierarchical set of information.