Cpu – the internal operating unit or brain of the
computer
Close – removing a document or window from the
screen
Cursor – the short blinking vertical line that marks
your place in text
Disk drive – floppy disk drive reads & writes data
to a small circular piece of metal-coated plastic
similar to audio cassette tape
Escape – Most often to mean Stop. Used today to
interrupt a command or move from one part of a
program to another.
Font – defined as a complete character set of a
single size of a particular typeface
Hard Drive device which stores digitally encoded
data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic
surfaces
Hardware the physical equipment that makes up
a computer system
Icon – a picture on your screen that represents a
program or object in your hard drive
Landscape orientation – refers to a page that
when printed is wider than it is long
Margin – the margin properties define space
around the elements
URL – a web pages address on the internet –
uniform resource locator
Ruler - markers at each end of the ruler set the
indention levels from the current margin
Selecting - Highlighting a block of text
Software - A list of instructions that computers
follow to perform certain tasks; a program, such
as Mavis Beacon, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Tab - Tab stops are often used to create easy-toformat documents
Toolbar - a panel on which onscreen buttons,
icons, menus or other input or output elements
are placed.
Undo - On the Standard toolbar, click the arrow
next to Undo. Microsoft Word displays a list of
the most recent actions you can undo.
Wordwrap - Feature that automatically moves a
word from the end of a line to the beginning of
the next line when the word does not fit.
Menu - A list of choices in a computer program