The use of a personal computer an an inexpensive production system for creating typeset-quality text and graphics.

Used in brochures, flyers, programs, invitations, newsletters, and newspapers, etc.

Also, to create a newsletter to communicate how your school's FBLA did at a State Leadership Conference.

A more advanced version of a WP program.

The alignment of text along the left margin, leaving a ragged or uneven right margin.

Also known as left align or block.

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Aligning text along the right margin, leaving a ragged or uneven left margin.

Used mostly with numbers 

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One complete collection of letters, punctuation marks, numbers, and special characters with a consistent and identifiable typeface, weight, posture, and type size.

Examples:

Ariel, Tahoma, Times New Roman, etc.

The alignment of multiple lines of text along the left, right, or both margins.  Sometimes referred to full justification or the alignment of text along both margins.

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Results in a smooth left and right margin.

A fundamental unit of measurement in typography

72 points = 1"

The bigger the point size, the larger the font.

A document that is premade that includes the text or formulas needed to create standardized documents.

You only have to enter the information as it changes on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis without recreating the form itself.

A feature in WP programs that checks selected words in a document for other words of similar meanings.

It contains synomyms of words.

Typeface

The overall lightness or darkness of a typeface design or the gradations of lightness to darkness within a font family.

Example:

Ariel to Ariel Black

Using the computer to create, edit, proofread, format, and print documents.

Used to key business letters, personal business letters, memos, minutes of a meeting, academic reports, and research papers.

Used to key biographies.

The WP feature that allows text to be keyed below the bottom margin

It appears on every page of the document.

The WP feature that allows text to be keyed above the top margin.

It appears on the top of every page.

Future Business Leaders of America

An organization of students, teachers, and professionals who want to promote work in the business world.

Career and Technical Education

contains any courses related to the business world

Two lowercase initials without punctuation of the person who keyed a document other than the author.

These are keyed a double space below the writer's keyed name at the left margin.

Pressing the Enter key 4x leaving 3 blank lines between lines of text.

Used in letters 2 places and after titles of reports and other documents.

One line of type after another in a document with 0 blank lines.

This is common in paragraphs of letters and memos.

In a letter, the address of the writer, sender, or author of the letter. 

If it is keyed on Letterhead or Stationery, it is automatically in that part of the letter.

Used mostly in Personal Business Letters.

The type of document that where you would research a topic and report your findings in writing.

Sometimes called a research paper.

The type of document used to thank your legislator for coming to speak to your chapter of FBLA

or

explain the importance of Career and Technical Education to your legislator.

A business letter is formal correspondence sent from a business to another business or to an individual.

You must carry at least two lines of the body of a letter to the second page.

Do not split a two sentence paragraph.

The type of document used to communicate sale items from a business to potential customers.

Also used to announce an upcoming *FBLA meeting.

*Future Business Leaders of America

Press the Enter key 2x to leave 1 blank line between lines of text.

This type of spacing is used in Memo headings and in the body of academic reports or research papers.

Letterhead/

Stationery

A high-quality of paper used by businesses and organizations with preprinted information containing the name of the business, telephone, fax, etc.

Letterhead or stationery contains the return address so you do not have to key it.  The first thing keyed is the date a double space below the heading.

The document used to inform your membership of what happened at the last FBLA meeting.

Minutes are keyed using word processing software.

This key is used to indent paragraphs on reports and hanging indent formats.

Press it once to indent.

When activated, this mode allows text to be added in the middle of an existing line without losing original text.

Our computers are in the Insert Mode by default.

When a line starts 0.5" from the margin. 

Use Tab for this indention.

The first line begins at the left margin and all others are indented by pressing Tab 1x so that text looks like example below.

Used in Bibliographies or Reference pages that contain the sources used in research or academic reports.

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This accompanies an academic report or research paper and contains the sources, listed alphabetically by author's last name, used in research.

It is keyed in hanging indent format.

It comes at the end of an academic report or research paper.

The word BIBLIOGRAPHY is keyed in all caps and followed by a QS before the sources are listed.

These are used to set a list of items apart from the rest of the document

or

to create a list of items.

When something is combined like a chart in a Spreadsheet with a WP document.

Other examples include MSOffice, which combines WP and Spreadsheet program with desktop publishing all in one package.

Another example is MSWorks:  It contains word processing, database, spreadsheet, and communications all in one neat software package.

A document that would most likely have columns, graphics, and varying font sizes.

Used to communicate monthly activities to groups and organizations such as FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America).

As soon as your document is created, you should "Save as" to tell the computer what you want to name it and where you want it stored.

Thereafter, just click on the disk to save the updated version.