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Background
A color, design, image, or watermark that appears behind text in a document or on a graphical image.
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Bar tab
Tab that inserts a vertical line at the location of a tab setting. Useful as a separator for text printed on the same line.
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Border
A line that surrounds a paragraph, a page, a table, or an image in a document, or that surrounds a cell or range of cells in a worksheet.
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Brightness
The ratio between lightness and darkness of an image.
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Bulleted list
Itemizes and separates paragraph text to increase readability.
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Center tab
Sets the middle point of the text you type; whatever you type will be centered on that tab setting.
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Change Case
Feature that enables you to change capitalization of text to all capital letters, all lowercase letters, sentence case, or toggle case.
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Character spacing
The horizontal space between characters.
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Character style
Stores character formatting (font, size, and style) and affects only selected text.
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Column
A format that sections a document into side-by-side vertical blocks in which the text flows down the first vertical block and then continues at the top of the next vertical block.
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Compress
The process of reducing the file size of an object.
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Contrast
The difference between the lightest and darkest areas of an image.
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Cropping (or to crop)
The process of reducing an image size by eliminating unwanted portions of an image or other graphical object.
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Decimal tab
Marks where numbers align on a decimal point as you type.
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First line indent
Marks the location to indent only the first line in a paragraph.
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Font
A complete set of characters—upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and special symbols with the same design that includes size, spacing, and shape.
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Foreground
Appears in front of text or images in a document or on a graphical image.
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Hanging indent
Aligns the first line of a paragraph at the left margin and indents the remaining lines.
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Hidden text
Document text that does not appear onscreen.
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Highlighter
Background color used to mark text that you want to stand out or locate easily.
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Horizontal alignment
The placement of data or text between the left and right margins in a document, or cell margins in a spreadsheet.
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Kerning
Automatically adjusts spacing between characters to achieve a more evenly spaced appearance.
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Leader character
Typically dots or hyphens that connect two items, to draw the reader’s eye across the page.
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Left tab
Sets the start position on the left so as you type, text moves to the right of the tab setting.
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Line spacing
The vertical space between the lines in a paragraph and between paragraphs.
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Monospaced typeface
Uses the same amount of horizontal space for every character.
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Multilevel list
Extends a numbered list to several levels, and is updated automatically when topics are added or deleted.
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Nonbreaking hyphen
Keeps text of a hyphenated word on both sides of the hyphen together, thus preventing the hyphenated word from becoming separated at the end of a line.
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Nonbreaking space
A special character that keeps two or more words together.
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Numbered list
Sequences and prioritizes the items in a list and is automatically updated to accommodate additions or deletions.
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OpenType
A form of font designed for use on all platforms.
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Orphan
The first line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the bottom of a page.
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Outline view
Displays varying amount of detail; a structural view of the document or presentation that can be collapsed or expanded as necessary.
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Paragraph spacing
The amount of space before or after a paragraph.
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Paragraph style
Stores paragraph formatting such as alignment, line spacing, and indents, as well as the font, size, and style of the text in the paragraph.
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Picture Styles
A gallery that contains preformatted options that can be applied to a graphical object.
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Position
Raises or lowers text from the baseline without creating superscript or subscript size.
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Proportional typeface
Allocates horizontal space to the character.
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Right tab
Sets the start position on the right so as you type, text moves to the left of that tab setting and aligns on the right.
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Sans serif typeface
A typeface that does not contain thin lines on characters.
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Scale (or to scale)
Increases or decreases text or a graphic as a percentage of its original size.
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Serif typeface
A typeface that contains a thin line or extension at the top and bottom of the primary strokes on characters.
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Shading
A background color that appears behind text in a paragraph, a page, a table, or within a cell.
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Sizing handles
The small circles and squares that appear around a selected object and enable you to adjust the height and width of an object.
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Style
A set of formatting options you apply to characters or paragraphs.
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Tab
A marker that specifies the position for aligning text in a document.
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Text wrapping style
The way text wraps around an image.
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Type style
The characteristic applied to a font, such as bold.
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Typeface
A complete set of characters—upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and special symbols.
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Typography
The arrangement and appearance of printed matter.
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Widow
The last line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the top of a page.
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