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Computer Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Add - delete or change the contents of a cell or worksheet or file.
Row
Align
Edit
Image
2. Text or an image that is connected by hypertext coding to a different location. By selecting the text or image with a mouse - the computer 'jumps to' (or displays) the linked text.
Font dialog box
Sent
Option
Hyperlink
3. Data that goes into a computer device.
Input
Toggles
Headers & Footers
Bulleted list
4. Provides access to begin programs - documents & access internet information
Task panes
Start-up button
Memos
Navigate
5. A key that can lock into place so that letters you type will come out capitalized. Caps Lock doesn't affect non-alphabetic keys (such as punctuation and symbols). To access these - you must still press the Shift key (on either side of the key board).
Integrated circuits
Caps lock
Word wrap
Toggle Switches
6. Information that comes from a computer after it has been processed
User name
Format
Computer output
Outbox
7. A tool where the numbering happens automatically
Retrieve
Auto-number
Form
Grammar Checker
8. 1) text-based applications - a way of designing the number of characters that fit on the computer's display. A column is one character wide. 2) In spread sheet applications - a column is a vertical arrangement of cells.
Column
Software
Journal
Notes
9. A connection that is established using a modem
Menu - drop-down
Prompt
Dial-up
Hyperlink
10. Programs currently being worked on
Prompt
Hardware
Change
Active programs
11. A box that allows you to close a document or window
Close box
Store
Slide show
Signature block
12. The screen that shows you what you are doing. It is like a viewer that displays what the computer sends to it.
Monitor
Caps lock
Column
Windows
13. Function performed to reverse the action of an earlier action
Toggles
Undo
Drag & Drop
MS Windows Tour
14. Allows user to draw or paint & bit mapped images
OPEN
Prompt
Paint
Digital
15. Location of stored activities or events occurring to a computer or network
Drag & Drop
Insert & Delete
Scroll Bars
Journal
16. A device - such as a keyboard - stylus and tablet - mouse - puck - or microphone - that allows input of information (letters - numbers - sound - video) to a computer.
Store
Spy-ware
Input device
Filter
17. Alternatively referred to as an account name - login ID - and user ID - a username or user name is a name given to a user on a computer or computer network.
Graphics
User name
Enter
Currency
18. The change from one thing to another
MEDIAN
Mouse
Row
Transition
19. Process of taking data from one program or computer to another
Exported
Receive
Paint
Chart
20. Something that can be accessed
Paint
Word wrap
OPEN
Mouse
21. A software program or program feature sometimes found in a program such as a word processor that can be used to help check text for any improper grammar.
Document
Graphics
Hardware
Grammar Checker
22. A type of edging around a document
AVERAGE
Borders
Clipart
Chart
23. Copy of text stored on the computer and only accessible through the computer
Indicators
Edit
Soft copy
Format
24. To sort or arrange a file or document neatly
Default # worksheets
Paragraph dialog box
Organize
Reports
25. A letter - number or other symbol.
Character
Animate
Toggle Switches
Active worksheet
26. A device that scans something that is flat and sends the image to the computer.
Workbook
Outbox
MS Word
Scanner
27. Styles of text already in MS
Browser
Built-in Styles
Virus
Dial-up
28. Sometimes referred to as run around - word wrap is an ability found in most text editing programs that allows any text that reaches the end of the far right edge of the window to wrap automatically to the next line without requiring the user to press
Web page
MEDIAN
Size & Style
Word wrap
29. Internet Service Provider
Cut - Copy & Paste
Layout
ISP
MS Word
30. Sections of a document that are unused. White spaces help separate paragraphs of text - graphics and other portions of a document - and helps a document look less crowded.
Screen
Database
Outlook
spacing
31. This is a secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer.
Password
Toolbar
Organize
Caps lock
32. A collection of similar information stored in a file - such as a database of addresses. This information may be created and stored in a database management system (DBMS).
Modified Block Letter Format
Input
Look-up menu
Database
33. Handouts to promote companies - events - etc.
Image
Virus
Flyers
E-mail
34. A command that removes and adds cell contents from a worksheet.
Desktop
AutoContent
AVERAGE
Insert & Delete
35. Everything to the left except the date - closing - signature - typed name and senders address are to the middle semi-colon
Modified Block Letter Format
Copyright
Memos
Start-up button
36. The process of launching the web page into the public for use.
Note Pad
Publish
Menu toolbar
Exported
37. Extra programs
Organize
Font dialog box
AutoContent
Accessories programs
38. Electronic hardware device or software capable of performing mathematical calculations
Calculator
Background
Modified Block Letter Format
Record
39. Term used to describe a software program that is intentionally installed on the computer by a user to monitor or spy on what other users of the same computer are doing.
Spy-ware
Task-switching
Default
Navigate
40. Allows you to collapse the documents to see only the main headings or to expand a document to see all the main headings and text.
Worksheet tab
Outline View
UNIVAC
Transition
41. Receptacle for unwanted items
Joystick
Recycle bin
Fonts
Retrieve
42. Microsoft WordPad is a free rich text editor included with Microsoft Windows 95 - 98 - ME - NT - 2000 - XP - Vista - 7 - and future releases of Microsoft Windows.
Block Letter Format
WordPad
Word wrap
Print dialog box
43. A term used to describe the process of organizing data in a particular order allowing for information to be found easier
Compact Disk
Menu toolbar
Signature block
Sort
44. A program that walks you through MS
Software
Notepad
Edit
MS Windows Tour
45. Where you advertise something
Annotations
Promote
Calculator
Banners
46. Term used to describe the location or folder that e-mail is received on the computer or a computer program
Calculate
Inbox
Display/Monitor
Spell Checker
47. A generic text editor included with MS that enables someone to open and read plain text files
Modified Block Letter Format
Font dialog box
Transition
Note Pad
48. A software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command
Thesaurus
MS Windows
Joystick
Tables
49. Term used to describe the process of switching between tasks currently running on the computer without affecting any of the tasks.
Hard copy
Pointer
Task-switching
Screen
50. A Microsoft program
Store
WYSIWYG
MS Word
Currency
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