Key Terms
- action bar
- toolbar, located beneath the menus, that contains the more frequently used tools in Docs
- alignment
- justification of text on the left, right, or both when formatting a document
- comments
- digital margin notes that collaborators can create, reply to, resolve, or delete
- Editor
- virtual editing tool that reviews several aspects of your document’s writing, and can be set for different styles
- Explore command
- unique feature in the Google suite of programs that uses machine learning to offer suggestions and predict what information you might need as you are creating files
- heading
- key term or phrase that describes the content in a section of the document; can be used to generate the table of contents
- landscape
- horizontal orientation of a page so that it is wider than it is tall
- line spacing
- spacing between lines of text in a document
- margin
- edges of the document page that are left blank
- Navigation pane
- Word feature that lets users view documents as thumbnail pages or outlines, or to search for specific text within a document
- portrait
- vertical orientation of a page so that it is taller than it is wide
- proofreading
- process of checking a document for spelling and grammar mistakes
- sans serif
- type of font that does not have short lines at the end of each part of a letter; considered easier to read in large blocks of text
- section
- partition of a document used to apply different formatting to different sections of text
- serif
- type of font that has short lines or embellishments on the ends of the parts of each letter
- style
- tool in Microsoft Office that is used in conjunction with the Themes tool; it lets the user customize a theme’s color, font, and font size
- Suggesting mode
- Google Docs’s version of the Track Changes tool in Word; it records the changes made by collaborators on a document
- text wrapping
- feature in Word that allows the user to insert an image or object, and have the text wrap around it in the way that the user decides
- Theme
- tool that lets the user change the color scheme of an entire document
- Track Changes
- feature in Word that records what changes different users make to a document, allowing a group of people to collaborate in writing and editing the same document
- version restore
- feature in cloud server services like Google Drive and OneDrive that allows the user to restore previous versions of their document
- versioning
- technology where programs store multiple iterations of files until they are approved and saved
- watermark
- text or image that is placed on the background of pages