Procesadores de Texto

Flashcards to review vocabulary and key concepts about Word processors

Word Processor

A computer program whose mission is to facilitate the creation of a written document, assisting the user in writing, editing, formatting and preparing for printing.

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)

Processors where the screen shows at all times the final appearance of the document once printed.

WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean)

Processors that work with unformatted text, as in a notepad, and through certain labels, what you want to achieve in the final document (bold, title, list, etc.) is explained.

Correspondence Tab

The tab that supports the semiautomatic generation of letters, envelopes, and address labels.

Review Tab

The tab that groups the options related to spelling correction and translation, and the tools for group editing, through comments and proposed changes.

Home Tab

The tab where the most used tools are included: font and paragraph formatting tools, different styles, and basic utilities (copy, paste, find and replace).

References Tab

Allows you to establish links between different parts of the same document: the table of contents, for example, will be updated automatically even if the headings change from one page to another.

Insert Tab

Offers options to include objects in our document: photos, drawings, tables, mathematical equations, or even other files. Some document organization options are also found here, such as headers and footers, numbering, cover page, or division into sections.

Page Layout Tab

Allows you to configure the space in which we write: paper size, orientation, margins, page backgrounds and borders, organization of the text in columns, etc.

Format

The set of text characteristics that give it a certain appearance, ranging from the font to the spacing between lines, through the colors used or the width of the margins.

Shading

Colors the background of text, paragraphs, or boxes.

Indentation

Consists of starting the line at a distance from the margin greater than the rest of the paragraph.

Bullets and Lists

They allow structuring the text in an easier-to-read way and are useful for listing different elements.

Style in Word

A predetermined set of formatting characteristics, identifiable by a name (for example, “Title 2” or “List Paragraph”) and available for our use in the Styles group of the Home tab.

Style Sets

Styles that are related to each other, grouped to guarantee that they follow the same aesthetic.

Theme

A predetermined set of formatting characteristics identifiable by a name for an application.

Page Break

A signal that we leave in the document to indicate that we want to leave the rest of the page (or column) blank.

Section Break

Intended to distinguish chapters or sections in a long document. The advantage is that the headers and footers can be different for each section.

Tab Stop

An invisible mark that allows you to move horizontally, used in combination with margins and indents to configure the page.

Table

A form of structuring data in rows and columns, where the information is stored in boxes generated by the intersection of rows and columns, called cells.

Macro

A set of orders that are executed as if they were one in Office and are associated with buttons on the ribbon, or with keyboard combinations.

Template

A model document from which you can create multiple documents with the same format and structure, but modifying some data.

Form

A document designed for the user to fill in a series of data through boxes or blank spaces to be filled electronically.

Mail Merge

The process in which Word automatically creates a personalized document for each recipient, preparing the document with the common fields marked, as well as a list with the data of the recipients.

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Used to identify numbers and letters in an image, where each character is compared with a database with different fonts, and dictionaries are used to make an educated guess if needed.