Zoom

To see something bigger.

X-Y scatter chart

An XY or scatter chart displays series as a set of points.

Worksheet

A worksheet is an arrangement of rows and columns, making up cells into which various types of data and formulas can be entered. 

Work Cited

Work cited is that work  that you used as a source for your paper. A works cited page is a list of these sources that you put at the back of your finished paper.

Workbook

A workbook in Excel is a collection of worksheets. A worksheet is an arrangement of rows and columns, making up cells into which various types of data and formulas can be entered.

Work area

The are in which you do your work.

WordArt

WordArt is a text-styling feature that is available in the Microsoft Office suite of products.

Word-wrap

Word wrap in Microsoft Word is a term used to display how words are continuously typed in a straight line, yet form paragraphs without manually ending the lines.

Windows-based applications

Software that uses HTTP as its primary communications protocol, and delivers web based information in HTML.

Wildcard

Wildcards or wild characters are commonly either an asterisk (*) or question mark (?). 

Views

Too see in different forms for example as of a landscape or portrait.

Undo

It erases the last change done to the document reverting it to an older state.

Trendline

Trendline is a straight line drawn on a chart through or across the significant limits of any price range to define the trend of market movement.

Transitions

to move from one screen to another

track changes

 track changes is an editing command that is commonly used when you create an original document and make changes and want to keep track of the changes that are made to that original document. 

Toggle

To switch from one setting to another. 

Title bar

A title bar also referred to as titlebar is a space at the top of the window of an internet browser page, program, or document that gives the name of what is in that specific window.

thesaurus

A thesaurus lists words on Microsoft Dictionary that have very similar meanings. 

Theme

 the central subject of a work of art

Text box controls

Text box controls are used to get input from the user or to display text. The TextBox control is generally used for editable text, although it can also be made read-only. 

Text

something that is written or printed

Templates

 it is a document that has had certain text and images

Taskbar

A taskbar is a bar that will run either at the top, on the side, or on the bottom of a browser or program.

Tabs

A tab is a resource you can use in the same browser window to open up another website.

Table

A table contains rows  and columns. Databases contain tables.

tab stop

A column position to which the printing mechanism of a typewriter or computer printer advances upon receipt of a command. 

Syntax

Syntax is the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences or studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences.

superscript

superscript is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that appears smaller than the normal line of type and is set slightly below or above it.

subscript

 a symbol or number used to identify an element in an array.

Style

Is the a list of formats you can use. For example Normal, normal web, heading 1, and heading 2.

Status bar

A status bar, is a bar that usually has some type of animation to it, that alerts you to what the progress of something is. 

Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is a computer application or program, that simulates an accounting workbook. It contains cells that make up a grid of rows and columns

Speaker notes

Speaker notes are the points in a presentation that the speaker needs to make, usually organized by the slide being viewed.

Spacing after

Spacing after is punctuation for a comparison of type set in proportionally-spaced and monospaced with one space and two spaces.

SmartArt

SmartArt Graphics are designed to make it quick and easy for everyone  to take an idea and turn it into one of these graphics. 

small caps

small capitals are uppercase characters set at the same height and weight as surrounding lowercase  letters or text figure.

Slides/Outline pane

The Outline / Slide pane is the area of the window showing miniature versions of all slides created so far in your presentation.

Slide Show view

Slide show view is the view used for presenting to an audience. 

Slide pane

slide pane in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations displays available slides in a slide slow presentation.

Slide masters

To add an image to all the slides in the presentation at once, you add the image to the Title.

Slide Master view

A slide master is the top slide in a hierarchy of slides that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning.

Sizing handle

sizing handle is a graphical indicator in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows users to click and drag on the indicator to resize the object.

Single-spaced

 To type without leaving a blank line between lines.

Simple Payback Period

Simple payback period is quickly recapturing funds, or as a screening exercise to compare competing projects. 

Shortcut menu

A shortcut menu, also called a context menu, is the menu that pops up when an object is right-clicked, and it often includes options to rename, delete, move or send a file. 

Serif fonts

serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. 

Selection

In a selection structure, a question is asked, and depending on the answer, the program takes one of two courses of action, after which the program moves on to the next event.

Select query

Select queries specify a result set, but do not specify how to calculate it

section

separate or distinct part

Scroll bars

A scrollbar is a graphical object in a graphical user interface (GUI) on the side of the screen that lets you go up and down

ScreenTip

A graphical user interface (GUI) feature in which a small text box appears when a mouse pointer is hovered over an icon or button. 

Sans serif fonts

that a font is sans serif if it lacks the little extensions or tails that are sometimes on letters.

Rotation handle

You Drag the rotate handle on the object in the direction you want to rotate it.

right-aligned

right-aligned is when the text starts from the right margin of a document. 

Rich Text Format

The Rich Text Format  is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange.

Ribbon

The Ribbon runs along the top of the application window and is the replacement for the menus and toolbars

Reviewing pane

The Reviewing Pane button. This button gives you an alternate view of the changes and comments.

report

A report is a document or written text that is providing information. 

Replace

To take the place of

Repeat

To do it again

Relative cell reference

A relative cell reference is one that changes when a formula is copied.

Relational database

A relational database is a database that assesses the relationship of characteristics between certain data sets.

Referential integrity

Referential integrity is a term that is related to how tables and their information is correlated for truth values and consistency. 

Redo

To do again

record

a record is one of the simplest data structures, consisting of two or more values or variables stored in consecutive memory positions

Range

the term range may refer to one of three things the possible values that may be stored in a variable.

R-squared value

R-Squared is a statistical term saying how good one term is at predicting another.  

Quick Style gallery

Quick Access toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar (shown in the image above) appears at the top of the Access window and provides you with one-click shortcuts to commonly used functions. 

Queries

ueries are essentially powerful Filters. Queries allow you to decide what fields or expressions are to be shown and what information to be sought.

Properties

A property , in some object-oriented programming languages, is a special sort of class member, intermediate between a field and a method.

Programs

Program is the set of instructions written is programming language. This drives a computer or a specific task. 

Print queue

A prioritized list, maintained by the operating system, of the output from a computer system waiting on a spool file to be printed.

Print driver

It is a file that tells your computer what kind of printer you are using and how to communicate with the printer. 

Primary key field

A key that identifies a record or portion of a record and determines the sequence of records in a file or other data structure.

Portrait

A page with portrait orientation, typical for letters, memos, and other text documents, is taller than it is wide.

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Portable Document Format ( PDF ) is an open standard for document exchange. The file formatcreated by Adobe Systems in 1993 is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independe.

Point

A point is a geometrical feature that possesses a position but no other attributes such as height or width. 

plain text format

In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text.

Placeholders

It is a spot reserved for placing certain things in a layout. A picture placeholder is usually a square that reserves the spot for the picture to be placed later.

Pixel

On a computer monitor, each picture or graphic is made up of hundreds of tiny dots. A pixel is a solitary dot that makes up the picture.

Pie chart

A pie chart is a graphical chart the is in the shape of a pie. You simply graph the numberical values and the are made out into a chart.

Paste Options

When you paste text from another document or from an outside source, the original formatting is retained. 

Paste

Pasting is when you select a text, copy and add it to another document.

Parenthetical citation

A parenthetical citation is the citation after the parenthetical documentation.

One-to-one relationship

One-to-one relationships is a computer database term & means exactly one record corresponds to exactly one record.

One-to-many relationship

One-to-many relationships occur when each record in  may have many linked records in  but each record in  may have only one corresponding record in. 

OLE Object

OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) is Microsoft's framework for a compound document technology.

office button

When you click the Office button, a drop down menu displays to show a number of different options, such as open, save and print. 

Objects

In computer science, an object is any entity that can be manipulated by the commands of a programming language, such as a value, variable, function, or data structure. 

Object Linking and Embedding

Object Linking and Embedding  is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. 

Null

A field in a table, or control on a form or report which does not have a specific value entered in it 

Notes pane

It allows you to type in notes about the presentation slide you are working on. 

Normal view

Normal View in Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress is the main working window in the presentation.

Name box

A name box in excel is the number on the top left corner, the name box tells you what cell you are in.

Movie clips

A movie clip is an animatable unit in Flash. In other words, by converting each Photoshop layer into a movie clip, you make those layers animatable.

Modern Language Association

The Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.

Mixed cell reference

It is a cell reference that has either the row or column is made absolute, but not both, using the dollar sign.

Minimize button

It reduces the current window to a Taskbar button.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications

Microsoft Visual Basic is a program that you can make your own applications in it

Microsoft Office Access

It's a program used to create a database. Which includes creating Tables, Queries, Reports, etc.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft office is an office suite introduced in 1989. It is similar to both Microsoft Windows and Mac. It is a bunch of desktop applications used for things such as power point, word processing, and excel.

MHTML format

MHTML , short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine resources that are typically represented by external links 

Memo

A memo, also know as a memorandum, is a short note which is normally sent out to alert 

Maximize/Restore Down button

click on the Maximize/Restore Down button, to maximize so your window can appear on the screen.

Markers

A marker is a type of special purpose control system that was used in electromechanical telephone central office switches.

Margin

The Edge of the paper

manual page brea

In printing, a code that marks the end of a page. A hard page break, inserted by the user, breaks the page at that location. Soft page breaks are created by word processing and report programs based on the current page length setting.

manual line break.

A manual line break ends the current line and continues the text on the next line.

manual column break

A column break is used in a word processing document where there are columns, to tell the document where to end one column and start a new one, if you want to start a new one before reaching the bottom of the page
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mail merge

Mail merge is a software program that uses a database of names and addresses, and a document in the form of a template. 

Macros

A macro is a computer program or instruction that automatically makes the computer run a series of instructions with no human interaction.

Lookup Wizard

lookup-wizard is a drop down list in access

logical operators

The logical operators are expressions which return a false or true result over a conditional expression

Live preview

A view of the final version of a document. 

Line spacing

The space between each line.

Line chart

It is a graphical representation of a collection of data

Legend

The legend tells you what the different symbols mean.

Left-aligned

 left alignment means that text is lined up along the left margin. 

Layout

layout refers to the arrangement of text and graphics. The layout of a document can determine which points are emphasized, and whether the document is aesthetically pleasing. 

Landscape

Landscape orientation is where the page is turned sideways, so the widest part of the page which is normally the height is now the width

Label controls

Serial number of a control label or  Barcode which contains the serial number of the control label;

Keyboard shortcut

a keyboard shortcut or hotkey is a finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user. 

Justified

Justified text is text in which all the printed lines in a paragraph (except the final line) are made the same length by the adjustment of spacing between words.

Internal Rate of Return

The internal rate of return (IRR) is defined as the discount rate that gives a net present value (NPV) of zero.

Interest Rate

An interest rate is known as a fee that an institution or company tacks onto a loan, so that they make money for loaning you money. 

Insertion point

Is the cursor. We use the cursor whenever we want to type text or insert an image 

Input mask

Input masks are guides to help users enter data in the correct format. 

Information Bar

The information bar on the on-screen display (OSD) now shows you exactly where you are in the video and where the chapters are in the file.

Indent

To set in from the margin

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the set of “markup” symbols or tags inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser. 

Hyperlink

A hyperlink is a word, phrase, or image that takes the user from one web based file to another. It can be used to link files on the same server or ones located elsewhere.

HTML format

Html format is hypertext mark-up language. It is a term that describes the language and symbols or code used to write information for web pages.

Horizontal (category) axis

displays text labels instead of numeric intervals, there are fewer scaling options that you can change than there are for a vertical (value) axis. 

Header

Repeated text such as a page number and a short version of a document's title, that appears at the top of the pages in a document.

hanging indent

Hanging indents are most often seen in bibliographies. The basic layout is that the first line is lined up flush along the left side of the margin, with each additional line being indented from the one prior to it.

Gridlines

The lines on the spreadsheet which are call gridlines shows each individual cell

Grayscale

Grayscale is a variation on the theme of black and white

Graphical User Interface

Software interface designed to standardize and simplify the use of computer programs, as by using a mouse to manipulate text and images on a display screen featuring icons, windows, and menus

Gallery

Computer gallery has been providing solutions, and solving both network and PC problems

Function

the kind of activity or purpose proper to a person or thing

Formula bar

The formula bar is located above the cells C and D and in between the Cell and the Data bar on the Excel speadsheet.

Forms

To shape

Formatting marks

Formatting marks are symbols used in editing to show where changes should be made in a manuscript.

Foreign key field

 foreign key field is a reference to data in another table.

footnote

a note of comment or reference at the bottom of a page

Footer

In a document or report, common text that appears at the bottom of every page. It usually contains the page number.

Font

font  is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats.

First Line Indent

First Line Indent is the mark on the horizontal ruler that formats the first line indent in a microsoft word document.

Filter

Filtering is a form of editing in which certain items that come through a system are sorted out.

Fill handle

Small black dots or squares in the bottom right corner of the active cell it is a square that you press and it makes things bigger and smaller as you move the mouse.

file extension

A file extension is simply a part of the computer file name.

PlaceHolder Field

A placeholder field prompts you to enter something such as text, a table, a frame, a graphic, or an object.

Field list

Field lists may be used for two-column table-like structures resembling database records.

Field

A computer field is the smallest piece of information on a database. 

Extrapolation

Extrapolation is an estimation of a value based on extending a known sequence of values or facts beyond the area that is certainly known.

Encrypt Document

Encryption is a process where the data of a file is scrambled and a specific key and process is needed to unscramble the data.

Embedded chart

An embedded chart is a chart that is drawn on the same worksheet as the data

Drag

Dragging is moving a virtual object by clicking it.

Drag and Drop

Drag-and-drop is the action of  clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.

Document

an electronic file that contains primarily text. The file can be a letter, proposal, book, report, or even a contract. 

Dialog boxes

A dialog box is a small temporary window that is used for displaying information to the user. 

Default printer

The printer that is automatically used by a program unless another printer is specifically designated.

Datasheet View

datasheet View shows the records in a table. Each row is one record. The columns are the fields from the table's definition. 

database

A database is designed to provide an organized mechanism for storing, managing and retrieving data 

Data type

 Data type (or datatype ) is a classification identifying one of various types of data

data source

 A data source defines where you are connecting to to retrieve data, and what data you want returned.

Cut

To remove.

Criteria

A criteria is a standard rule that allows for a judgment or decision to be based.

CopyRight

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information.

Copy

To make a copy of something

Controls

The control computer is used to control the entire course of the onDaF test.

Contextual tabs

Contextual tabs and menus appear when an object is selected. These contextual tabs contain information or options pertinent to that object only.

Context sensitive

Context-sensitive help is a kind of online help that is obtained from a specific point in the state of the software, providing help for the situation that is associated with that state.

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting allows you to change the formatting of a cell based on the values that are in it.

Compatibility mode

A compatibility mode is a software mechanism in which a computer's operating system emulates an older processor, operating system.

Comparison operators

Comparison operators, as their name implies, allow you to compare two values.

Comment

a remark

Column chart

A column chart is a graphic representation of data. Column charts display vertical bars going across the chart horizontally, with the values axis being displayed on the left side of the chart.

Clustered column chart

A clustered column chart displays values in 2-D vertical rectangles. A clustered column in 3-D chart displays the data by using a 3-D perspective only.

Close button

A button in the upper right corner of a Window with an "x" in it. When clicked, it closes the program running in the current window

clipboard

It's a bit ofmemory assigned by the operating system to temporarily hold data.

Clip art

Drawings or illustrations available, as in a book or on a CD-ROM, for easy insertion into other material

Citation

Citation is a way of acknowledging your sources of information through a combination of references and a list of works cited.

Circular Reference

 A circular reference is a series of references where the last object references the first, resulting in a closed loop.