Queries

The keyword(s) or phrase that a user types into a search engine's search box. Different search engines have various advanced search features in addition to the basic broad match queries.

Properties

Characteristic of an object. In many programming languages, including Visual Basic, the term property>/I> is used to describe attributes associated with a data structure.

Properties

Characteristic of an object. In many programming languages, including Visual Basic, the term property>/I> is used to describe attributes associated with a data structure.

Programs

(also software programs, or computer programs) are instructions for a computer. A computer requires software programs to function.

Print queue

a print job is a file or set of files that has been submitted to be printed.

Print driver

a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software that converts the data to be printed to the form specific to a printer. The purpose of printer drivers is to allow applications to do printing without being aware of the technical details of each printer model.

Primary key field

The primary key of a relational table uniquely identifies each record in the table.

Present value

Present value is the value on a given date of a future payment or series of future payments, discounted to reflect the time value of money and other factors such as investment risk. ..

Portrait

The terms portrait and landscape refer to different orientations of the paper whether it is oriented vertically or horizontally. A page with portrait orientation, typical for letters, memos, and other text documents, is taller than it is wide.

Portable Document Format (PDF)

a file format developed by Adobe Systems. PDF captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications, making it possible to send formatted documents.

Point

To move the pointer on a display screen to select an item.

plain text format

Refers to textual data in ASCII format. Plain text is the most portable format because it is supported by nearly every application on every machine. It is quite limited, however, because it cannot contain any formatting commands.

Placeholders

proxy: a person authorized to act for another

Pixel

Short for Picture Element, a pixel is a single point in a graphic image. Graphics monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. The pixels are so close together that they appear connected.

Pie chart

A type of presentation graphic in which percentage values are represented as proportionally-sized slices of a pie.

Paste Options

 Paste Options buttons' to see a clipboard thing with a drop down list every time you paste text.

Paste

To copy an object from a buffer (or clipboard) to a file. In word processing, blocks of text are moved from one place to another by cutting and pasting.

Parenthetical citation

Parenthetical referencing is a citation style in which in-text citations must be enclosed within parentheses and embedded in the paragraph, as opposed to the footnote style.

One-to-one relationship

A one-to-one relationship exists when the primary record will have only one related record. Another determining factor is both fields used the relationship are Primary Key fields.

One-to-many relationship

A relation in which one record in a table is related to many records in another table.

OLE Object

OLE is a compound document standard developed by Microsoft Corporation. It enables you to create objects with one application and then link or embed them in a second application.

Office button

The Office button in PowerPoint 2007 (and all Microsoft Office products) is found in the top left corner of the presentation window once it is opened.

Objects

Generally, any item that can be individually selected and manipulated. This can include shapes and pictures that appear on a display screen as well as less tangible software entities

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)

a compound document standard developed by Microsoft Corporation. It enables you to create objects with one application and then link or embed them in a second application.

Numbered list

A list whose items are numbered, with various styles including Arabic numerals and Roman numerals

Null

Part of a nullable type system, null is a special pointer value (or other kind of object reference) used to signify that a pointer intentionally does not point to an object.

Notes pane

right below the actual slide.

Normal view

Displays a document with dotted lines representing where each page ends.

Non-printing characters

is a code point (a number) in a character set that does not, in itself, represent a written symbol.]

Name box

Contains the cell reference(s) of the currently selected cell(s)

Movie clips

Video clips are short clips of video, usually part of a longer piece.

Modern Language Association (MLA)

The Modern Language Association of America (referred to as the Modern Language Association or MLA) is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.

Mixed cell reference

In Excel cell references are used in formulas, functions, charts, and other Excel commands.
Cell references consist of a column letter and the row number that intersect at the cell's location in a spreadsheet such as D2 or AZ234.

Minimize button

A window control (the middle yellow button that appears at the top left) that the user clicks to put a window into the Dock.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Visual Basic for Applications is a programming language that is similar to Visual Basic, only it is embedded in an individual Microsoft application such as Excel or Access.

Microsoft Office Access

previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools

Microsoft Office

an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

MHTML format

hort for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine resources that are typically represented by external links together with HTML code into a single file.

Memo

document sent within a company

Maximize/Restore Down button

The button on the left, the one that looks like "_" is the minimize button. Click on this and you minimize the application to the task bar.The one in the middle is the tricky one. It's tricky because it changes function depending on the state of the window. If you click on this you will maximize the application window to full screen.

Markers

a type of special purpose control system that was used in electromechanical telephone central office switches

Margin

the strips of white space around the edge of the paper. Most word processors allow you to specify the widths of margins.

manual page break

Its a code or symbol inserted in a document that tells the software to stop printing on that page and start a new one.

manual line break.

A manual line break ends the current line and continues the text on the next line. For example, suppose your paragraph style includes extra space before each paragraph.

manual column break

On a display screen in character mode, a column is a vertical line of characters extending from the top to the bottom of the screen.

main document

In the PC world, the term was originally used for a file created with a word processor. In addition to text, documents can contain graphics, charts, and other objects.

mail merge

A feature supported by many word processors that enables you to generate form letters.

Macros

A symbol, name, or key that represents a list of commands, actions, or keystrokes.

Lookup Wizard

A utility within an application that helps you use the application to perform a particular task

Logical operators

logical operators are used to combine conditions, so that multiple conditions can be evaluated together as a single expression.