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Word Processing A beginners Guide

Vocabulary-Basics Icon-a small box on the screen that represents available activities Buttons-a box or symbol to be clicked on in order to proceed through a program Cursor-a highlighted mark that indicates your location on the screen Clicking-pressing and releasing the mouse button

Vocabulary-Basics Double-clicking-clicking the mouse buttons twice (quickly) Dragging-moving the mouse with the mouse button held down Highlighting-clicking and holding the mouse button down while dragging the cursor over desired data to be “selected”

Vocabulary-Basics 3 mouse skills-point, click, drag Menu bar-the line near the top of the screen that gives you your choices Scroll bar-narrow strips along the sides of a window that allow you to move through the text Dialogue box-a box displayed on the screen that you are asked to respond to

Vocabulary-Basics Title Bar-the line at the top of the screen that gives the name of your file Status Line-the line at the bottom of the screen that tells you the page you are on and give you other helpful information

Vocabulary-Basics Be able to locate these items on a hand out tool bar pointer drop down list document

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Keyboard Shortcuts <tab>-moves cursor 5 spaces at a time <backspace>-erases all characters to the left of the cursor <delete>-erases all characters to the right of the cursor <caps lock>-causes all letters to be capitalized

Keyboard Shortcuts <shift>-capitalizes all letters while being held down <enter>-begins a new line> <ctrl>+B-bolds letters <ctrl>+U-underlines letters <ctrl>+I-italicizes letters <ctrl>+S-saves to current location <ctrl>+P-prints file