Western Rockingham

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Western Rockingham Middle School Computer Blitz
Basic
Word Processing Terms
Blitz Week 5 Day 2
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Cursor A blinking line or other mark showing
where the next letter or character will be keyed.
NOTE Cursor does not blink in NCDESK
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• Editing
• Changing or making corrections in a document.

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Clipboard A special part of memory that
temporarily holds the contents of a cut or copy
function
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• Cut
• To remove a highlighted section of a document.

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COPY

• To make a duplicate of a highlighted
• section of a document.

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Paste
To put the clipboard contents into another part
of a document. It is also used in conjunction
with the cut and copy commands.
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CLIP ART

• A collection of picture files that can be
  inserted into a document.

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• Font
• A specific design for a complete set of letters,
  numbers, and symbols.

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Point
a unit of measurement of type. The larger the
point size, the larger the type.