Vocab MP2

Graphical user interface: an interface between a user and a computer system that involves the use of a mouse-controlled screen cursor to select options from menus, make choices with buttons, start programs by clicking icons,

Grayscale: a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity.

Gridlines: the faint lines that appear around cells in Excel 2007. They are used to distinguish cells on the worksheet.

Group: a number of people or things considered together or regarded as belonging together

Handouts: a document that is distributed to a group

Hanging indent: a paragraph that has all lines but the first indented.

Header: refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted.

Heading: something forming or used to form the head, top, edge, or front

Horizontal axis: The lines are commonly referred to as the x and y-axes where the x-axis is taken to be horizontal

HTML format: Web page coded in HTML that can be displayed in a Web browser; formats text, tables, images, and other content that is displayed on the page; most pages within static websites have an ".html"

Vocab MP2

First line indent: Indent on the first line of the paragraph.

Font: a specific size and style of type within a type family

Footer: A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document

footnote: a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

foreign key field: A foreign key field is a reference to data in another table.

formatting marks: You can also show or hide formatting marks by clicking Options on the Tools menu and then clicking the View tab.

forms: a particular mode in which something is manifested

Formula bar: Displays the contents of the current or active cell, located above the worksheet column headings.

Function: a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set

Gallery: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

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Extrapolation: To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information.

Field: A broad, level, open expanse of land.

Field area:

Field list: two arrays are created that define the custom enumerated types for the drop-down list you want to create.

Field placeholders: To hide the field codes

File extension: A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention of its contents.

Fill handle: it's the small black square in the bottom right of the active cell.

Filter: remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

Filter by form: How to filter a form in a Microsoft Access database, based on a field that is not in the table the field is bound to.

Find: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

Vocab Words MP2

Datasheet view: The Datasheet View shows the records in a table.

Default printer: You can change the default printer to any other printer that you have connected to your computer.

design view: The view of table, query, form, and macro objects that enables you to create or change the object.

Dialog boxes: In graphical user interfaces, a dialog (or dialogue) box is a special window, used in user interfaces to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed

Document: writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Drag: pull, as against a resistance

Drag-and-drop: In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of) clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.

Embedded chart: When a chart is drawn on the same worksheet as the data.

Encrypt document: to store files in an encrypted format on your hard disk.

endnote: Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies.

Vocab Words MP2

Copy: An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate Copyright: The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work. Criteria: A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based. Cumulative total: Actual, non-

annualized performance over a given period of time.

Currency: Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.

Currency format: numeric form that can take a currency format

Cut: To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.

Data source: A factory for connections to the physical data source that this DataSource object represents.

Data type: a classification identifying one of various types of data

Database: A database consists of an organized collection of data for one or more uses, typically in digital form.