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Questions and Answers
What are formatting marks?
What are formatting marks?
- Characters that display on the screen but do not print (correct)
- Characters used in designing graphics
- Characters that only show in draft mode
- Characters that print on the screen
What are graphics?
What are graphics?
Pictures, charts, or drawing objects
What is Live Layout?
What is Live Layout?
A feature that reflows text as an object is moved or resized
What is a Spin Box?
What is a Spin Box?
What is text wrapping?
What is text wrapping?
What are picture styles?
What are picture styles?
What are artistic effects?
What are artistic effects?
What is a shape in document design?
What is a shape in document design?
What is left alignment?
What is left alignment?
What is justified alignment?
What is justified alignment?
What is line spacing?
What is line spacing?
What are bullets?
What are bullets?
What is a tab stop?
What is a tab stop?
What is SmartArt?
What is SmartArt?
What is rich media?
What is rich media?
What is a template?
What is a template?
What is word wrap?
What is word wrap?
What are nonprinting characters?
What are nonprinting characters?
What are layout options?
What are layout options?
What is an anchor in document formatting?
What is an anchor in document formatting?
What is a rotation handle?
What is a rotation handle?
What is alignment in text formatting?
What is alignment in text formatting?
What is a text box?
What is a text box?
What are margins?
What are margins?
What is a bulleted list?
What is a bulleted list?
What is a toggle?
What is a toggle?
What is a dot leader?
What is a dot leader?
What is placeholder text?
What is placeholder text?
What is embed code?
What is embed code?
What is interactive media?
What is interactive media?
Study Notes
Word Formatting and Layout Concepts
- Formatting Marks: Invisible characters indicating where keys like Enter, Spacebar, and Tab were pressed, aiding in document structure visualization.
- Text Wrapping: Determines how text surrounds an object, enhancing document comprehensibility.
- Alignment Types:
- Left Alignment: Text aligns to the left margin, creating a jagged right margin.
- Justified Alignment: Text is evenly aligned on both the left and right margins, providing a uniform look.
Graphic Elements
- Graphics: Visual representations such as images, charts, or drawings included in documents.
- Picture Styles: Enhancements like frames, borders, and shadows applied to images for a visually appealing layout.
- Artistic Effects: Transformations that make images resemble artistic sketches or paintings, adding creativity to visuals.
Text and Object Management
- Live Layout: Automatically adjusts and reflows surrounding text as objects are moved or resized, improving layout coherence.
- Spin Box: A control that allows rapid navigation through numerical or data values via up and down arrows.
- Tab Stop: Marks on the ruler indicating where the insertion point will go when pressing the Tab key for organized text layout.
Lists and Layout Features
- Bullets: Symbols marking items in a list, facilitating organized and unordered information presentation.
- Bulleted List: Useful for displaying items that don’t need a specific order, improving readability.
- Dot Leader: A series of dots following a tab to guide the reader’s eye from the text to another location.
Document Structuring Tools
- Template: Pre-formatted documents serving as a starting point for customization, saving time.
- Text Box: A flexible container for holding and positioning text or graphics within a document.
- Margins: The space surrounding the text on all four edges of the document, influencing layout and readability.
Media and Interactivity
- Rich Media: Interactive content that responds to user actions, integrating text, graphics, audio, or video.
- Embed Code: Creates a link to multimedia content, such as videos or images, facilitating easy access and integration.
- Interactive Media: Refers to content that engages the user through various formats like animation, video, or audio.
Additional Features
- Anchor: Symbol indicating the paragraph where an image is fixed, ensuring proper alignment.
- Rotation Handle: Allows users to rotate graphics to desired angles for customized visuals.
- Line Spacing: The vertical distance between lines of text in a paragraph, affecting readability and appearance.
Miscellaneous
- Nonprinting Characters: Displayed symbols indicating paragraph breaks, tabs, and spaces, which aid in document editing.
- Placeholder Text: Temporary non-printing text that shows where user-input text can be typed.
- Toggle: A switch button that can be turned on or off with clicks, allowing for quick adjustments to options.
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Test your knowledge with this quiz on formatting marks, graphics, and live layout as covered in Word Chapter 1. These flashcards will help reinforce your understanding of key concepts and terminology used in Microsoft Word. Challenge yourself to see how much you remember!