Thursday, June 10, 2010

Slide Sorter view

Slide Show view is the view used for presenting to an audience. The whole screen is taken over by your PowerPoint 2007 presentation.

Slide Show view

A collection of pages arranged in sequence that contain text and images for presenting to an audience. It often refers to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. The slide show can be enhanced using transitions and animations. Music, sounds or narration can be added to these slide shows and they can run unattended by using custom timings. The slide show is most often projected on a screen using a digital projector.

Slide Master

A PowerPoint slide master is an element of the design template that stores information about the template, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color scheme information.

Slide layout

The slide layout in PowerPoint is the arrangement of all the items that make up your slide, such as title, graphics or text boxes.

Slide design

When you can change the color scheme, font, the background etc.

Slide Finder

With Slide Finder, you can quickly find and copy slides from one presentation to another.
When slides are copied from one presen-tation to a second presentation, they are automatically formatted the same way as the other slides in the second presentation.

Presentations

PowerPoint presentation is a presentation created using Microsoft PowerPoint software. The presentation is a collection of individual slides that contain information on a topic. PowerPoint presentations are commonly used in business meetings and for training and educational purposes.

Placeholders

A large number of graphics in a worksheet can slow down Excel. One way to compensate is to turn on picture placeholders, an easy setting that displays placeholders instead of the actual graphics

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Normal view

Normal View in Microsoft PowerPoint is the main working window in the presentation. The slide is shown full size on the screen. This view is more commonly known as Slide View.

Clip Organizer

Clip Organizer contains drawings, photographs, sounds, videos, and other media files — called clips (clip: A single media file, including art, sound, animation, or movies.) — that you can insert and use in presentations, publications, and other Microsoft Office documents.

Relative cell references


In Excel and other spreadsheets, a relative cell reference identifies the location of a cell or group of cells.

Operand

In Excel an operands are the objects that are manipulated. For example 5+x, 5 and x are the operands.

Mixed cell reference


In Excel cell references are used in formulas, functions, charts, and other Excel commands.
Cell references consist of a column letter and the row number that intersect at the cell's location in a spreadsheet such as D2 or AZ234.

Mathematical functions


A function is a preset formula in Excel. Like formulas, functions begin with the equal sign ( = ) followed by the function's name and its arguments. The function name tells Excel what calculation to perform. The arguments are contained inside round brackets.

Formulas


A formula in a spreadsheet, such as Excel, is a mathematical equation used to caluculate a value. In Excel formulas must begin with an equal ( = ) sign.

Embedded chart

An embedded chart is a chart that is drawn on the same worksheet as the data

Chart

A graph, or a chart as it is known in Excel, is a visual representation of worksheet data.
A chart is based on a selection or range of related data. A chart often makes it easier to understand the data in a worksheet.

Argument

In Excel, arguments are used in functions. They are the part of the function enclosed in round brackets (parentheses) following the function’s name. Arguments supply the data for the function to use in its calculations. In Excel, arguments are most likely to be cell references.

Absolute cell reference


Absolute cell reference identifies the location a cell or group of cells. Cell references are used in formulas, functions, charts, and other Excel commands.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Gantt Chart

A Gantt chart is a type bar chart that shows or illustrates data.

Monday, May 24, 2010

How Is Excel Useful In Life?

Excel can help us in many different ways. For example now that we are in school insted of writing or drawing a table and a chart we could use excel, and it will make it easier, faster and neeter. But excel can also be useful in our future.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mail Merge

Mail Merge help us save time insted of writing a new document or copy and paste. For example the letter we wrote was a thank you letter which was not especific to a person which that help us using mail merge by using the same letter but changeing the persons name and the reason which we are thankful for. Mail Merge is not only for letters because you can use it for other different things.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Cell reference

The address of a cell that contains a value that is needed to solve a formula in a spreadsheet program.

Ascending order

The arrangement of records or other data into a sequence running from the lowest to highest.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Active cell

The intersection of a row and column

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Graphics

Computer device or program that lets a computer display and manipulate pictures or images. Also the images.

Footnote

Is text that appears on the bottom of the page that has an explanation to credit the source of information.

Footer

Is one or more lines of text that are on the bottom of a page of a document.

Header

Its located on the top which you write your name, date, etc.

Header

Its located on the top which you write your name, date, etc.

Endnote

A note place at the end of a document to comment or site information.

Drawing Objects

Object such as auto shapes etc. that are allow created in a document. The obejects appear separate from the text in a document.

Hard column break

Is the place at which a column or page of text stops.

Drawing Canvas

Placed in a document that you can make graphics from different kinds of shapes ,clip art, and pictures.

Desktop Publishing

The process of using the computer and other specific types of software to combine text and graphics, to make document newsletters, books etc.

Crop

To cut off the sides of an image, to make it the right size, or to cut out unwanted parts.

Clip Art

Is a tool of already created graphic art pieces such as border, illustration, etc. that can be use to decorate document.

Banner

A graphic image used to advertise products or service on a website and shape is usually rectangular.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Soft Page Break

Soft page break is created by word processing and report programs based on the current page length setting.

Portrait Orientation

It refer to different orientations of the paper.

Points

Small dots, squares, dashes or graphics that begin a short descriptive phrase.

Overtype mode

Text that is entered replaces text to the right of the cursor, one character at a time.

landscape orientation

A printing orientation that prints data across the wider side of the form.

Insert mode

A data entry mode that causes new data typed on the keyboard to be inserted at the current cursor location on screen.

Hard Page Break

A hard page break inserted by the user with a command in the program. A page will end at a hard page break even if it only has a few lines on it; the bottom of the page will be left blank.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Hanging Indent

When all the lines start at the left margin and the first line is indent.

Format Painter

The text with the desired stlye (font, size etc.) is highlighted and formant painter is clicked.

Drag-and-drop

It moves incons of files and folders on screen from one location to another.

Attributes

A single element of data.

Format

The sturcuture, organization, presentation or appearance a set of data in a document.

Font

The style and the size the letters are.

Clipboard

When you copy or paste something to your document.

Alignment

Its the arranagement of the text with the margins.

First Line Indent

The distance of the paragraph either the left or right margin.

Cell

The intersection between the columns and rows.

Cell

The intersection between the columns and rows.

Things you can insert on a document

  • Cover page
  • Blank page
  • Page Break
  • Table
  • Picture
  • Clip art
  • Shapes
  • Smart art
  • Chart
  • Hyperlink
  • Bookmark
  • Cross-reference
  • Header
  • Footer
  • Page number
  • Text box
  • Quick Parts
  • Word art
  • Signuture Line
  • Data & time
  • Object
  • Equations
  • Symbols

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Columns

A vertical row or list.

Rows

Number of thing or people arrange in a horizontal line.

Table

A table consist data and information that is well organize.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

110000=48
101011=43
11111=31
56=111000
192=1100000
512=1000000000

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Toolbar

A toolbar is a set of icons or buttons that are part of a software program's interface or an open window

Title bar

It contains the name of the file or application, and its located on top of a window.

Scroll bar

A bar that appears on the side or bottom of a window which helps you move the document in the window up and down or side to side.

Pointing device

An input divice that allows a user to input spatial data to a computer.

Minimize

To make the window smaller.

Menu Bar

A horizontal menu that appears on top of a window that contains lists of available menus for a certain program.

Menu

A list of commands or options you can choose.

Maximize

To make the window bigger.

Icons

Are small pictures that represents for something.

Folder

A thing were you can save your work and helps you be more organize.

Desktop

The first thing that appearce when you turn on your computer.

How Technology Will Influence My Career?

It will help me in many different ways for example it will help me make better decission/options, and it will make things easier for me and faster.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Systems software

Is the collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Software development

A multistep process that starts with a need to perform a task more efficiently using a computer.

Operating systems

The collection of software that directs a computer's operations, and controls the execution of other programs.

Network operating system

An operating system which includes software to communicate with other computers via a network which is also known as NOP.

Multitasking

The concurrent operation by one CPU of 2 or more processes.

MS-DOS

A mirocomputer operating system, and stands for microsoft software disck operating system.

Language translators

To translate a language to another.

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)

A software interface which standardize and simplify the computer of programs.

Applications Software

A specific task, also known as productivity software

Algorithm

Giving instructions step by step to preforme a task.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

How to make coffee?

First boil some water
Next put the boiling water in a cup
Then put some coffee (only like 3 table spoons or add more if you want)
Then with a spoon mix it
If you like black coffee your done
If you want some milk
Then add some milk on your cup of coffee
After that but a little of sugar if you want
Then with the same spoon mix it again
Next make sure its the way you like it if not add more sugar, milk, or coffee
And your done and enjoy.

What is Soptware?

Is a program which is information and data that can be istructed electronicly

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Input, Output, and Storage Devices

Input Device: a device that enters information into a computer.

Output Device: a device that presents data from a computer to a user.

Storage Device: a devices that records and stores data.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Scanner

Changes images into digital data that a computer can undersatand.

Read-only memory (ROM)

A permanent type of memory storage used by the computer for important data that doesn't change.

Random access memory (RAM)

Used to temporarily store information with which the computer is currently working.

Plotter

An output device that draws graphs or pictures, usually by moving a pen.

Output Devices

A device, such as a printer, video display, or speaker, that presents data from a computer to a user.

Nonimpact printers

A printer that creates images without mechanically impacting the page, as an ink-jet or laser printer.

Mouse: Network drive

The mouse is the primary device for navigating and interacting with the computer.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Motherboard

The main circuit board to which all of the other internal components connect.

Input Devices

Any peripheral used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system, such as a computer.

DVD

Also known as Digital Versatile Disc, an optical disck that can store a large amount of digital data, as music, images, and text.

Controller

A device that controls and transfer data from the computer to a peripheral device.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The brain of the computer that interprets and executes instructions.

CD-ROM

A compact disk on which a large amount of digitized read-only data can be stored.

Byte

The combinations of bits used to represent a particular letter, number, or special character.

Bit

A digit in the binary number system that has two values, 0 or 1.

AMerican Standard Code for Information Iterchange (ASCII)

ASCII code are numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc.

Five types of Computers

  • Supercomputers
  • Mainframes
  • Minicomputers
  • Microcomputers

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

What are the parts of a computer?

  • Central Processing Unit (CPU)
  • Memory
  • Random-access memory (RAM)
  • Read-only memory (ROM)
  • Basic input/output system (BIOS)
  • Caching
  • Virtual Memory
  • Flash Memory
  • Motherboard
  • Power supply
  • Hard disk
  • Operating System
  • Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) Controller
  • Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
  • Sound Card
  • Graphics Card

Monday, February 8, 2010

What is a Computer?

A computer is an electronic device that receives, process and stores data.