Zoom

To change from a distant view to a more close-up view zoom in and vice versa (zoom out). An application may provide fixed or variable levels of zoom.

X-Y scatter chart

A Scatter chart has two value axes, showing one set of numerical data along the x-axis and another along the y-axis. It combines these values into single data points and displays them in uneven intervals, or clusters.

Worksheet

A worksheet also known as a spreadsheet is a collection of cells on a single sheet where you actually keep and manipulate the data.

Works cited

A list of any documents or other resources you have quoted or use to create your work. You should include the title of the work, the authors name, the publisher and date of publication

Workbook

A workbook is the MS Excel file in which you enter and store related data.Each workbook can contain many worksheets

Work area

That which is the result of labor. A work may be written text of any kind, a graphic image, an audio recording, a video clip, a motion picture, choreography, sculpture, a painting, music, architecture or program source code.

WordArt

WordArt is a text-styling feature that is available in the Microsoft Office suite of products. It allows users to create stylized text with various special effects such as textures, outlines, and many other manipulations that are not available through the standard font formatting.

Word-wrap

A procedure whereby a word processor automatically ends each line when it is full and starts the next line with the next word, never breaking a word. Also known as wrap mode.

Windows-based applications

A Web based application is one that is accessed over the internet using a web browser. It typically would have a web address like www.yahoo.com

Wildcard

A symbol that stands for one or more unspecified characters, used especially in searching text and in selecting multiple files or directories.

Views

In relational database management, a special display of data, created as needed. A view temporarily ties two or more files together so that the combined files can be displayed, printed or queried; for example, customers and orders or vendors and purchases. Fields to be included are specified by the user.

Vertical (value) axis

By default, Microsoft Office Excel determines the minimum and maximum scale values of the vertical (value) axis (axis: A line bordering the chart plot area used as a frame of reference for measurement. The y axis is usually the vertical axis and contains data. The x-axis is usually the horizontal axis and contains categories.), also known as the y axis, when you create a chart. However, you can customize the scale to better meet your needs. When the values that are plotted in the chart cover a very large range, you can also change the value axis to a logarithmic scale, also known as log scale

Undo

To restore the last editing operation that has taken place

trendline

In excel you can use tredlines to show the slope of data points

Transitions

A change from one condition or state to another

Track Changes

Track Changes is a way for Microsoft Word to keep track of the changes you make to a document. You can then choose to accept or reject those changes.

Toggle

To alternate back and forth between two states by pressing or clicking the same button. For example, the "Last" button on a TV remote control alternates between the last two TV channels selected. In Windows, pressing Alt-Tab switches the user between the last two open application windows that were selected. See toggle switch.

Title bar

An area at the top of a window that contains the name of the file or application in the window.

thesaurus

A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms

Theme

In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details, used to customize the look and feel of (typically) an operating system, widget set or window manager.

Text box controls

A window that appears on a computer screen, presenting information or requesting input.

Text

Words treated as data by a computer.

Templates

A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the appropriate places. It becomes a custom document after filling in the blanks with your data. See style sheet and document.

Taskbar

In computing, a taskbar is a bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch and monitor running applications. Microsoft incorporated a taskbar in Windows 95 and it has been a defining aspect of Microsoft Windows's graphical user interface ever since. Some desktop environments, such as KDE and GNOME, include a more configurable taskbar.

Tabs

A function in a Web browser that hides the current Web page behind a tab and presents a new blank window for continued browsing. All browsers keep track of pages visited, and clicking Back and Forward moves through them. However, after a long period of Web surfing, the pages of most interest are often interspersed between others. Tabbed browsing creates multiple browsing sessions within the same browser window.

Table

It is a collection of related cells, also called a range

tab stop

A location on a horizontal line that marks the beginning of a column of text. With a monospaced font such as Courier, space characters can be used to line up columns of numbers and names evenly.

Syntax

The rules governing the structure of a programming language. It specifies how words and symbols are put together to form statements and expressions

Synonyms

A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.

superscript

Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. For example, 10 to the 9th power is written with the 9 in superscript (109).

Sum

Autosum allows you to automatically insert the SUM function into a cell. It will then also automatically select a group of cells to add if there are cells with numbers in them nearby. If you do it at the bottom of a column of numbers, it will automatically select the ones above to sum and if you put it at the end of a row of numbers, it will automatically select the numbers in that row to sum

Subscript

In word processing and scientific notation, a digit or symbol that appears below the line; for example, H2O, the symbol for water.

Style

A typeface variation (normal, bold, italic, bold italic).

Status bar

A horizontal line of information displayed at the bottom or top of an application window. It reports information about the current state of the program or the data contents in the window. For example, the status bar in an Explorer window shows how many files a folder contains and how much disk space they take up. When a file is highlighted, details about the file are displayed

Spreadsheet

An accounting or bookkeeping program that displays data in rows and columns on a screen

Speaker notes

Are notes added to the presentation slides as a reference for the presenter. An area of a PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress slide that is hidden during the presentation is reserved for notes for the speaker. Here the presenter will jot important key points that he wishes to cover during the presentation

Spacing after

An empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)

Gallery

In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design.Place the insertion point where you want to add a photo gallery.On the Insert menu, click Web Component.In the Component type list, click Photo Gallery.In the Choose a Photo Gallery Option list, click the layout you want.Click Finish.To add a photo to the photo gallery, click Add.

Field list

A window that lists all the fields in the underlying record source or database object, except in data access page Design view. In data access page Design view, it lists all the record sources and their fields in the underlying database

SmartArt

SmartArt, found under the Insert tab in the ribbon in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook, is a new group of editable and formatted diagrams. There are 115 preset SmartArt graphics layout templates in categories such as list, process, cycle, and hierarchy. When an instance of a SmartArt is inserted, a Text Pane appears next to it to guide the user through entering text in the hierarchical levels. Each SmartArt graphic, based on its design, maps the text outline, automatically resized for best fit, onto the graphic. There are a number of "quick styles" for each graphic that apply largely different 3D effects to the graphic, and the graphic's shapes and text can be formatted through shape styles and WordArt styles

Small caps

Refers to stocks with a relatively small market capitalization. The definition of small cap can vary among brokerages, but generally it is a company with a market capitalization of between $300 million and $2 billion

Slope

In a chip, the time it takes for a signal to switch from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Although extremely fast, it is not instantaneous and can be measured in picoseconds (ps) and nanoseconds

Slides/Outline pane

Each time you add a new slide, a miniature version of that slide appears in the the Outline / Slides Pane on the left side of the screen. You can switch between views by clicking on the desired tab at the top of the pane.

Slide Show view

A collection of pages arranged in sequence that contain text and images for presenting to an audience. It often refers to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. In Microsoft Powerpoint with the key F5 you can view your presentation.

Slide pane

Software feature available in some programs that is found on the left-side of the screen and displays small preview images or thumbnails of available files or features available in the program. For example, the slide pane in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations displays available slides in a slide slow presentation. The user can click each of the slides to view the slide individually and edit the slide if needed.

Slide masters

The slide Master is an element of the design template that stores information about the template including font styles placeholdersize and positions background design and color schemes.

Slide Master view

In Microsoft PowerPoint the Master Slide is the template for the other slides in the presentation. On it you can put things that are to appear on all the slides; these items will not be selectable and you will not be able to edit them when creating and editing the slides of your presentation.

Sizing handle

are the small boxes appearing on the corners and edges of a "selected control" that let you change the size and shape of the control.

Single-spaced

To type, print, or format (copy) without leaving a blank line between lines

Simple Payback Period

refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment. For example, a $1000 investment which returned $500 per year would have a two year payback period. The time value of money is not taken into account. Payback period intuitively measures how long something takes to "pay for itself." All else being equal, shorter payback periods are preferable to longer payback periods. Payback period is widely used because of its ease of use despite recognized limitations, described below.

Sigma

The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.