Common Computer Terms

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Across
  1. 3. The orientation of the document when printed; longer than it is wide.
  2. 5. Contains the Start button, the clock and currently running tasks.
  3. 7. engine A tool to help locate information on the Internet.
  4. 8. With reference to printing is the physical port on PC the printing device is connected to.
  5. 9. page The main or introductory Web page for a site.
  6. 14. Notation that you create to list sites you visit often or would like to quickly return to.
  7. 15. The location where browsers keep a copy of recently visited pages.
  8. 16. Software you can use free of charge for a trial period, usually 30 days, after which time you are expected to pay for the program.
  9. 17. Computerized worksheet on which text, numbers and formulas can be entered for fast, accurate calculations.
  10. 19. A software program that translates and allows you to view HTML files.
  11. 20. When your text reaches the right-hand margin in a document it automatically starts on the next line.
  12. 22. The rectangles created at the intersection of columns and rows.
  13. 24. Files that are sent separately from, but attached to, an e-mail message.
  14. 25. The process of bringing (importing) data into an application which has been exported from another application
  15. 29. To locate the cause of trouble and removes, fixes or treats it.
  16. 31. The process of asking a question of a database. Queries are used to view, change, and analyse data in different ways
  17. 32. server A computer configured to accept print requests from other computers over the network and may send the resulting print jobs over the network to a physical printer.
  18. 34. Allows the user to reverse the last action performed.
  19. 36. A document that can be used as a pattern for creating other similar documents.
  20. 37. The process of merging a main document with a data source to produce form letters
  21. 39. A predefined formula that performs calculations by using specific values, called arguments
  22. 43. An organised collection of related information.
  23. 44. The name of a particular Internet site.
  24. 46. A toolbar contain buttons with that can be clicked to provide a shortcut to tasks.
  25. 47. Text files that visited Web sites store on you computer’s hard disk.
  26. 48. The process of taking (exporting) data from an application, i.e. a database, and placing it into another application, i.e. a spreadsheet
  27. 49. Software applications that expand a browser’s basic capabilities by becoming extensions of the browser itself.
  28. 50. Can be represented by a range of symbols, usually round dots, which are used to set apart points in paragraph style.
Down
  1. 1. Operating systems and applications use a general system call to operate hardware devices. The driver is a software routine that translates it into the specific instructions needed to control the hardware device.
  2. 2. A rude or inflammatory e-mail message.
  3. 3. Hardware devices which are attached to the computer eg printer, speakers, scanner etc.
  4. 4. To copy files to another media as a precautionary measure, in case the first media fails
  5. 5. A facility, which allows the user to make columns with or without borders, can be used instead of tabulating.
  6. 6. A facility in operating system to store items of text or graphics when they have been cut or copied, so they can be pasted to a different location.
  7. 7. A process where the words in a document are matched against a list of words in a dictionary. If a word in the document does not match one, it is signalled as a spelling error.
  8. 10. Two or more computers connected together for the sharing of resources such as printers and drives.
  9. 11. A person who illegally gains access to computer systems.
  10. 12. A spreadsheet file containing one or more worksheets
  11. 13. Paragraph alignment: left, centre, right or fully justified.
  12. 18. reference A cell or range reference in a formula whose location remains the same (absolute) when copied.
  13. 21. Electronic mail: messages that are sent and received electronically.
  14. 23. A program that is loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs without your consent. Most viruses can also replicate themselves
  15. 26. switching The process where packets of data are transferred over the Internet via different paths.
  16. 27. The etiquette rules of the Internet.
  17. 28. A sheet within a spreadsheet workbook; used for displaying rows and columns of figures and labels
  18. 30. Programs: a series of instructions that tell the computer hardware what to do; can also be the interface between the user and the computer system.
  19. 33. The physical components of the computer system eg keyboard, mouse, speakers etc.
  20. 35. The act of copying information from a distant computer to your local computer.
  21. 38. The orientation of the document when printed; wider than it is long.
  22. 40. The location where new e-mail messages arrive.
  23. 41. To change the look of a document, text, graphics, characters.
  24. 42. All the characters in a particular typeface.
  25. 45. An equation that performs operations on worksheet data.