Keyboarding Vocabulary

arrangement of text on a page (left, center, right, justified)

• alignment

• toolbar

key pressed to turn everything you type into capital letters

• alignment

• homerow

• shifi

• capslock

keys used to move the cursor up, down, left or right around the screen

• homerow

• arrow keys

characters shown with thicker, darker strokes

• dark

• bold

key used to back up and erase the character or space to the left of the cursor

• Control

• Backspace Bar

visually distinct mark that shows the point on a display screen where the next letter, number, symbol or space will be entered

• italics

• bold

• plus sign

• cursor

the key pressed to begin a new line in a word processor, or to signal the computer that data has been typed in and completed

• enter key

• tab key

• ctrl

• pause

the process or rearranging, changing and correcting text or graphics

• change

• undo

• edit

• italics

on the keyboard the keys A S D F J K L and semicolon(;)

• off

• qwerty

• christopher

• HOMEROW

style of characters which slant upward to the right

• characters

• tabs

• italics

• line