Word of the Day - Definitions Group 1

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Active window
• The window in front. Only one window can be active at time. The active window can be recognized by the horizontal stripes across the menu title bar.

Application Program
• Computer programs such as Word, AppleWorks, Excel, etc that help you do things easier and more efficiently.

Back Up
• To make a copy of a file, document, or disk. Done to prevent loss of the original information.

Caps Lock Key
• Pressing this key will make everything you type be in uppercase. It doesn’t affect the number keys.

CD-ROM
• Compact Disk-Read Only Memory. Disk (≈4.5") on which programs, music, graphics, animations, text, movies, etc. are stored. About 600 MB of information which cannot be changed.

Character
• A single typed letter, number, space, or symbol.

Clipboard
• The area of the Mac’s memory which holds the text or graphics you cut or copied. Temporary storage for one text or graphic item at a time. Pasting inserts the contents of the Clipboard into a document.

Closing
• Click on the red close circle “X” in the upper left corner of a window it will collapse the window back into an icon. Closing a document means terminating your work on it without “quiting” the application.

Cursor
• A vertical line | in a document which blinks at the location where text will appear when you type. Moving your pointer between two characters and clicking will move the cursor to that location.

Document
• A piece of work that you have created with an application. Also called a file.

Editing
• Changing a document by adding, deleting, or moving, text or graphics.

Folder
• A collection of files and/or other folders that are represented by the folder icon . Used to organize files into related groups. You can open a folder by double-clicking on the icon.

Hardware
• The physical equipment of a computer, such as the monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and disk drive.

Hard Copy
• A computer document printed on paper.

Highlight
• To select text by clicking and dragging across it with a mouse (or double clicking on a word). The text will appear in inverse. Highlightiing text tells the computer you wish to do something to that particular text.

Icon
• A small graphic symbol or picture, usually represents a file, folder, disk, or tool.

Menu Bar
• The horizontal bar across the top of the screen that contains the menu titles.

Monitor
• Electronic screen which displays the desktop, folders, files, programs, etc.

PC
• Stands for personal computer, but most often used to denote a non-Mac computer or Windows-based computer.

Scroll Bar
• Horizontal and vertical bars at the bottom and right side of a window, which allow you to move quickly through a document by clicking on the arrows or dragging the scroll box.