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Thursday, April 30, 2009

worksheet


a tab in excel to open a separate page within the notebook

Workbook


the excel page

Range


the difference between the highest and lowest number in a set of numbers

Filling


dragging to fill empty cell

Fill handle


the dot in the corner of a cell that allows you to do fill actions

Cell reference


is the location of a cell

Active cell


it is the cell that is presently selected or highlighted

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

window


a small page that shows and can be manipulated, usually has a title bar and tool bar.

tool bar


the bar on the window that allows for access to tools 

title bar


the bar at the top of a window that says the name of the page your looking at 

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Taskbar

the taskbar is the bar in the bottom that hols the start menu and the shortcuts

Monday, April 6, 2009

Scroll bar


a bar on the right of the window used to go up and down pages

Restore

to put a computer back into its original state

Pointing device

a peripheral used to manipulate an onscreen pointer or cursor

Minimize

to make a window smaller usually found in the right upper corner

Menu bar

the place where the menu is held along with shortcuts to other applications

Menu

a way to access parts of the computer

Maximize


to make a window bigger. the button is usually two squares overlapping usually found in the corner

Icons


onscreen representations of folders and applications

Folder

a place where documents are stored within the computer and can be seen on screen through the menus

Desktop

the main screen you see when y0u start the computer

Friday, April 3, 2009

Which OS is more Accessable?

The most accessible OS is XP because it was made with the needs of special people in mind. Even its Microsoft office word includes advanced speech recognition. XP itself includes an onscreen keyboar, Text to speech, Speech to text and alot of other features that make it one of the most accesible operating systems everz.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Systems software


it makes the computer work (kinda like operating systems) basically allows greater interaction with the computers hardware

Network operating system


software that controls a network Ex: speed of computers, their files, maintenance of communication between computers

Language translators


programs that translate words into different languages

Boot


first piece of software that helps start the computer