Keyboarding Vocabulary
| Character | A letter, number, symbol, or space. 4 |
| Clipboard | A temporary storage area for text that is to be cut or copied and then pasted to another location.3 |
| Cursor | The movable indicator on a monitor (screen) that indicates the place for editing a document.4 |
| Delete | To remove a character, word, line, etc. 4 |
| Default | A setting used unless another option is chosen.3 |
| Drag-and-Drop | Drag the mouse to move or copy selected text to a new location.3 |
| Edit | To revise text. 4 |
| Ergonomics | the science concerned with designing safe and comfortable machines for humans.1 |
| First-Line Indent | Only the first line of the paragraph is indented.3 |
| Font | An assortment of characters in a certain type and size. 4 |
| Footers | Text and/or graphics appearing at the bottom of each page in a document.3 |
| Format | The size, style, typeface, page size, margins, and printing requirements of a printed document. 2 |
| Hanging Indent | In a paragraph, all lines, but the first "hang" (are indented) to the right of the first line.3 |
| Hard Page Break | A manual page break.3 |
| Headers | Text and/or graphics appearing at the top of each page in a document.3 |
| I-Beam | When positioned on the text, the mouse pointer becomes and I-shaped pointer.3 |
| Insert | In this default mode, new text is inserted between existing characters.3 |
| Justification | The alignment of horizontal lines. 2 |
| Keyboarding | Typing on a computer. 4 |
| Landscape | In this orientation, the document prints with the long edge of the page at the top.3 |
| Link | Connections in a hypertext document that allows you to jump to another section of the same document, to another document on the World Wide Web, to a Help Screen, or to a web site.3 |
| Normal | The display of a document in a simple layout.3 |
| Overtype | In this mode, new text replaces existing characters.3 |
| Points | A unit of measure for fonts (One inch equals approximately 72 of these).3 |
| Portrait | In this orientation, the document prints with the short edge of the page at the top. 3 |
| Print Layout | The display of a document where the display shows the document as it will look when it is printed.3 |
| Scroll | Move through the pages of a document on the screen without repositioning the insertion point.3 |
| Select | Identify text for editing and formatting.3 |
| Soft Page Break | Page breaks that Word automatically formats as needed when text reaches the bottom margin.3 |
| Toggle | Turn an option on and off using the same procedure.3 |
| Word Wrap | Text automatically moves to the next line when it reaches the right margin.3 |