TLE 7 - QUARTER 3

• Windows is the most popular operating system of the modern times.
• The process of loading the operating system in a computer's memory is called booting.
• The desktop is the general work area of the computer.
• Four parts of the desktop:

  • Start Menu
  • Icons/desktop icons
  • Taskbar
  • System Tray
• An icon is a symbol/picture that acts as a button to open up a folder, document, application, or other objects.
• All icons need to be double-clicked in order to be opened.
• Application Icons open up a program (an executable file), like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, etc.
• Folder Icons store and organize documents and applications. Often you will find folders within folders.
• Document icons represent a specific file, like a word document, picture, etc. These files typically have an association with the program that is used to open them
• Folder Icons contain more folders and files within it.
• Microsoft created an operating system and Graphical User Interface (GUI) and it is found on most computer systems (but not all!).
• Types of Windows…

  • Program Windows – Applications like Word, Internet Explorer

  • Document Windows – Open to a specific document within the applicable program window

  • Folder Windows – A folder, like “My Documents” that may contain other folders, documents, programs, etc.
• Parts of a Window

  • Title Bar – at the top of the window. – Most contain these buttons

  • Minimize

  • Maximize

  • Restore

  • Close
• • Scroll bars often appear at the bottom and even more often on the right hand side of a window, if there is a lot of content.
• • Cut, copy, and paste commands can be used with to move text, graphics and other items from one application to the next (Internet Explorer to Microsoft Word, for instance).
• Alignment refers to the way text is arranged in the document between the margins.
• Application: Another word for a software program. In word processing, the application is a Word Processor such as Microsoft Word.
• AutoCorrect: This feature is used to correct typos and misspelled words.
• Clipboard: The clipboard is a temporary holding area the computer uses for any item that has been copied or cut.
• Copying: The process of copying will take an existing item in a document and creates a duplicate in a new location in the document (or even in another document). When an item is copied, it is stored temporarily on the clipboard waiting to be pasted elsewhere.
• Cursor/ Insertion Point: The cursor (also known as the insertion point) is a flashing vertical bar on the screen that indicates where entered text or objects will be placed in the document. To place the cursor to a new location in your document, you would move your mouse pointer to the new location and click the left mouse button once. The flashing cursor should now appear in the new location and any text typed or object inserted will be placed there.
• Cutting: The process of cutting is used to move text or objects in a document. Cutting takes an existing item in a document, removes it from its current location and stores it on the clipboard. The item can then be pasted elsewhere in the document (or even in another document) as long as it remains on the clipboard.
• Document: A document is the file that is created using a word processor. Documents can contain many different types of items such as text, images, tables, charts, borders and clip art.
• Editing: Editing is the process of making changes or corrections in a document.
• . Footer: The footer is an area that appears at the bottom of every page in a document that can contain one or more lines of text.
• A font is a set of letters and numbers of one particular typeface.
• : The process of formatting a document involves specifying how the document will look in its final form on the screen and when printed.
• Header: The header is an area that appears at the top of every page in a document that can contain one or more lines of text.
• Highlighting / Selecting: Highlighting (or Selecting) an object or area of text is typically the first step to making a change to that item.
• Indent: The space between the margin of the page and the text. Most word processors allow for both left and right indentation.
• Legal Size: The term "Legal" in the page layout area of a word processing application refers to the size of the paper being used to print the document. The dimensions of legal sized paper are 8.5 X 14 inches. (Long Bond Paper)
• Letter Size: The term "Letter" in the page layout area of a word processing application refers to the size of the paper being used to print the document. The dimensions of letter sized paper are 8.5 X 11 inches (short bond paper)
• Line spacing refers to the amount of white space between lines of text in a paragraph. Commonly used line spacing settings are single spaced and double spaced.
• Margin: The margin is the white space between the edge of the page and where text or other items can be placed in your document.
• Menu Bar: The menu bar typically appears at the top of the word processing application's window and contains a listing of the main commands in the form of text
• Paragraph: In a word processing document, a new paragraph is created each time the enter key on the keyboard is pressed.
• Paragraph spacing refers to the amount of white space that is left between paragraphs when the enter key is hit.
• . Pasting: After text or another item is cut or copied it is placed on the clipboard. The process of pasting takes the item on the keyboard and places it in current location of the insertion point.
• Portrait: If the page layout indicates Portrait page orientation, the vertical edge of the paper is larger than the horizontal edge. Portrait orientation is the most common orientation in word processing. Landscape (where the horizontal edge is larger than the vertical edge) is the other option.
• Print Preview: Print Preview is a word processing feature that will show you what your document will look like on a piece of paper if it were to be printed.