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Microsoft Office/Create and Edit a Flier
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Vocabulary
<li>Mouse Pointer
<li>Scroll Bar
<li>Status Bar
<li>Ribbon
<li>Home Tab
<li>Active Tab
<li>Groups
<li>Gallery
<li>Live Preview
<li>Screen tip
<li>Dialog Box Launcher
<li>Task pane
<li>Mini Toolbar
<li>Shortcut menu
<li>Quick Access Toolbar
<li>Office Button
<li>Menu
<li>Submenu
<li>Key Tip Badge
<li>Formatting marks
<li>Wordwrap
<li>File
<li>Folder
<li>File name
<li>Font
<li>Style
<li>Theme
<li>Underline
<li>Italicize
<li>Quick Style
<li>Color Scheme
<li>Font Set
<li>Picture Style
<li>Resizing
<li>Page Boarder
<li>Document Properties
<li>Keywords
<li>Hard Copy
Word Document Window
SCROLL BAR - Bar along the side or bottom of your window that allows you to display different portions of a document.
STATUS BAR - Bar at the bottom of the Word window that displays number of pages, words, and other document information.
RIBBON - At the top of the Word Window and proves easy central access to the tasks you perform.
HOME TAB - The primary tab that contains the most frequently used commands.
ACTIVE TAB - The tab that you are currently on.
GROUPS - A set of commands that are all related.
GALLERY - A set of graphic choices that display in a grid, like the picture styles.
LIVE PREVIEW - When you hover over a command it it shows what the change would look like.
SCREEN TIP - Note that appears and gives the name of the command.
DIALOG BOX LAUNCHER - A small arrow in the bottom right corner of a group that displays more options in a separate window.
TASK PANE - A window containing controls that can remain open while you work on your document. (like the "find and replace" box)
MINI TOOLBAR - Automatically appears based on the task you are performing.
SHORTCUT MENU - Menu displayed when you right click an object.
QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR - Above the ribbon and contains save, undo, redo commands
OFFICE BUTTON - In the upper-left of the Word window, it displays the document management commands.
MENU - Anything you can click on that will drop down a list of commands.
SUBMENU - Menu commands with a triangle next to them that list additional commands.
KEY TIP BADGE - Appears by pressing the ALT key, gives the code you press with ALT to access it.
FORMATTING MARKS - Character that does not print, but shows what keys have been used (ENTER, TAB).
WORDWRAP - Type characters in a paragraph continually and the automatically flow to the next line.
Saving a Document
FILE -A saved document
FOLDER - A place in storage to save an organize your documents.
FILE NAME - What you called a document when you save it.
File names can not contain:
<li>more than 260 characters
<li>/
<li>\
<li>:
<li>*
<li>"
<li><
<li>>
<li>|
Formatting a Document
FONT - Appearance and shape of letters and numbers.
STYLE -Grouping of fonts, sizes, and spacing.
THEME - A set of unified formats for fonts, colors and graphics.
UNDERLINE - An emphasis placing an underscore below each character.
ITALICIZE - An emphasis causing a slanted appearance.
BOLD - An emphasis displaying characters thicker and darker.
QUICK STYLE -Predefined formatting or style set, such as: Normal, No Spacing, and Heading 1.
COLOR SCHEME - A set of 12 complementary colors used for text, background, accents and links.
FONT SET - Defines formats for two sets of text: headings, and body.
Creating a Bulleted List
A bullet is a dot or other character (or picture) that is at the beginning of a paragraph used to highlight something of importance.
Working With Graphics
PICTURE STYLE - Formatting to make more visually appealing.
RESIZING - To make bigger or smaller.
Creating Page Borders
PAGE BORDER - Framing the contents of a document to give it a finished look.
Setting Document Properties
DOCUMENT PROPERTIES - metadata - details about a file: author, title, subject, when created, when modified, ...
KEYWORDS - Words or phrases that further describe the document.
HARD COPY - The printed out document.