Manual

header - a page element that appears at the top of each page. See footer.
highlight - to select text or graphics to be able to work with that chosen item. Highlighted text
has a black background, and highlighted graphics have square handles around them.
high/low chart - a chart for representing a starting and ending value
home page - The beginning document (Web page) in your Intemet Web browser
host - The Intemet Service Provider who sends outgoing emails and receives and stores incoming
emails
hour'glass pointer - pointer (insertion poin 0 indicating that the system is busy and you must
wait.
hyperlink - a feature that allows you to skip around in a document (Web page or Bookreader)
I-beam pointer - on-screen pointer indicating that you can type or edit text or select and place
text.
icon - a picture symbol on the screen used to represent a program, task, or tool bar button
import/export function - allows you to use documents with other programs
indentation - the space between the margin and the text
Information bar - at the top of the File Manager screen that describes information (such as size)
about a diskette or folder
insert mode - a mode for entering text in which new text pushes existing text to the right
insertion point - the blinking vertical line on the screen that shows you where your next text
will be plac._=_ --. _-_ __
interact - Not cap]talizecl, any collection of computers connected to share information
Internet - Capitalized, the world-wide network of computers accessed through an Intemet
Service Provider
Internet Service Provider- A company connected to the Intemet who acts as your gateway to
the Intemet
inverse mode - a drawing mode that displays the top object as the inverse color of the
background color, and, where they overlap, combines the colors of overlapping objects to
make a third color
invisible characters - characters that do not appear when you print,such as a section break
mark
iteration - process in which the desired result is approached through repeated cycles of
" successively better approximations.
justified - paragraph alignment in which all right edges of text align exactly on the right margin
keyboard layout - the types of keys and their arrangement on the keyboard
--labels - in Spreadsheet, the descriptive titles for rows and columns
landscape layout - a type of page layout in which the page is wider than it is tall
-'leading - the space between lines of text in a paragraph
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