Computer Vocab

• 1) Copy someone's exact words - even one sentence
• 2) Tell someone else's idea in your own words
• 3) Copy someone's drawing, diagram, chart, or graph
• 4) Copy facts that most people do not know

Copying other people's work without giving them credit.

Junk e-mail. It is usually used for advertising.

Software that is used to gain access to a person's internet connection. It gathers information from the user, without the user knowing.

Sending messages meant to hurt someone's feelings.

A situation where a teen is continually "tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, or otherwise targeted" by another teen using text messaging, email, instant messenger, or any other digital type of technology.

Stalking or harassing someone online.

A container or "box" that is used to type text. The container can be formatted, sized, and moved.

A container or "box" that has an image within the frame. It can be formatted, sized, and moved.

A rectangular table (or grid) of information. It helps you manage and store numbers and text.

Used to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers in a spreadsheet. Always begins with an equal sign (=).

Ex: =D12*D13

A built in formula in a spreadsheet.

Ex: =SUM(B3:B7)

When the column and row form a rectangle it is called a cell. It is one area on a spreadsheet.

The cell that is highlighted and shown in the formula bar.

A column is identified by an alphabetical letter.

A row is identified by a number.

An electronic spreadsheet program. An electronic spreadsheet is a software that uses a computer to perform numeric calculations rapidly and accurately.

• 1) Go to the Page Layout
• 2) Click on Margins Tab
• 3) Modify the inches accordingly

• 1) Highlight a column or row on the side field
• 2) Right click
• 3) Click insert column or row, above or below

The formula bar in Excel is located above the work area of the spreadsheet. The formula bar displays the data or formula stored in the active cell.

A program that allows you to create publications using already made templates and designs.

The act or process of publishing printed material. It is printed information (books, newspapers, brochures, etc.) for the public

• An electronic file with a predesigned, customized format and structure.
• -an already made design or pattern for you to use/follow.

Media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (ex: text, audio, graphics, animation, video, etc.) to inform or entertain an audience.

A designated memory holding area that temporarily stores information copied or cut from a document, or files for transfer.

From your tool bar you can click on the drawing keys that allow you to create geometric shapes and other freefrom shapes.

A text box that is predesigned with 3D fonts that can be modified, sized, and rotated.

The art or practice of setting and arranging type; to create art or send a message.

• 1) Go to the webpage where your picture is
• 2) Right click picture and save as - into a folder in your documents
• 3) Go to Publisher and click on the Insert Tab
• 4) Go to Insert Picture - from file
• 5) Click on the picture you want and insert it to your Publisher document

To download picture or video into a program for future use.

Text that can be added to the beginning, middle, or end of your movie

A way to move from one image to the next with a certain effect.

A timeline of pictures, audio, and transitions of your video.

Effects that can be placed to the images that will change the way they look or appear.

Once your movie is finished you complete the movie to a .wmv file. It is unchangeable in this form in the Movie Maker program.

• 1) Under Capture Video link
• 2) Click Import Pictures
• 3) From drop down menu choose the folder where your pictures are and select the one you want
• 4) Click Import

A program made by Windows. It allows you to put a series of pictures or videos into a movie and add music to the background.

To show the public merchandise, places, or people. It is to make a point to or to promote your business.

Positive/appealing aspects about a subject, person, or place.