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a feature of software that automatically puts writing around a picture or continues it from one page to the next
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a feature of software that automatically puts writing around a picture or continues it from one page to the next
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a feature of software that automatically divides words and puts hyphens in them in the correct places
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a feature of software that automatically saves your information every few minutes, so that you lose only a small amount of information if the computer system fails
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a feature of multimedia software that allows a user to move between pages in no fixed order
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the part of a computer program where you can store information that you are going to copy to another document
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a menu in some computer programs that allows you to cut, copy, or move parts of a document or file, or look for particular words in it
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a feature of software that prevents information in a file from being changed by two different users at the same time
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a feature of computer equipment or software that prevents a file from being changed or destroyed by accident
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a feature of a piece of software that connects two computers and allows files to pass from to the other
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Graphical User Interface: a system that uses pictures that you click (=press) on with a computer mouse in order to move between programs
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the part of a computer program that deals with a particular type of problem or operation
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a record of what information the previous users of a computer have put into the computer
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a name or password that you type into a computer in order to be able to start using a program or system
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a name and password that you use for opening a computer program or starting using a computer system
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a set of instructions in a computer program that are repeated until an action is completed
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a group of numbers giving information about a particular feature of a piece of software or hardware
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the set of software choices, for example the size of pages or the size of the margins, that allow a user to decide how the page will look when it is printed
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the numbers or letters that you have to put into a computer in order to be able to use the system
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a feature of a software product that lets you see how a page will look when you print it
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a place on a computer where documents, files, and programs that you have removed are kept
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a series of instructions in a computer program that makes the program do a particular thing when a website is opened or a link is clicked
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a feature of software that shows photographs one after the other, without the user having to give an instruction to look at the next image
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a mistake caused by software that is very difficult to find because it only appears in particular situations
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a set of instructions for a computer program that a computer programmer understands and that are translated into instructions that a computer understands
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the part of a computer program that checks the way that you spell words and corrects your mistakes
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on a computer, an independent part of a picture that you can move around easily on the screen
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a feature in a word processing program that fits all the words in a document automatically within the margins
being used at the present time. Programs that are running on your computer but not being used are in the background.
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