The window in which you are currently working or that is currently selected; only one window can be active at a time. When a window is active, its title bar is highlighted to differentiate it from other windows.
NAME=Align
The positioning of a selected group of frames relative to each other.
NAME=Alignment
The positioning of text on the page; left aligned, right aligned, centered, or justified.
NAME=Annotation frame
A frame that has been marked as an annotation. Annotation frames can be useful for adding notes for yourself in your document because you can opt not to print them out when you print the document.
NAME=Arcball
A ball that you can drag to change the direction of the 3D text or its lighting.
NAME=ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a computer code used to represent letters and numbers.
NAME=Aspect ratio
The relationship between the height and width of an object.
NAME=Auto-numbering
The process of numbering lines of text, paragraphs or headings automatically. Each new section is numbered in sequence.
NAME=Autotrace
To trace the outline of an imported picture automatically.
NAME=Background control
You are in Background control when the background tab above the preview window is selected. All the tabs to the right of the preview window are background related.
NAME=Background shape
This is a feature of PowerText which allows the creation of background effects such as rectangles or starbursts.
NAME=Baseline
An invisible line on which the text sits.
NAME=Basic shape
A box, rounded box, ellipse or star created with one of PublisherÆs frame shape tools.
NAME=Binding margin
Extra space added to the side of a printed page to allow for punching or binding: usually the left-hand side of a right page and the right-hand side of a left page.
NAME=Bitmap
A picture that is made up of individual dots created with a paint program or with a scanner. Compare with Line-art.
NAME=Body text
The main text of a document.
NAME=Bold text
A weight of text characterized by thick heavy lines.
NAME=Bookmark
A marker in the document that you can jump to quickly. Bookmarks are particularly useful in long documents and for jumps in Web pages. Bookmarks can refer to text, frames or pages.
NAME=Boxed text
Text which has a box drawn around it.
NAME=Break control
The paragraph style attribute that controls where and how paragraphs are broken and where they begin.
NAME=Bullet
A heavy dot or other symbol, used in lists and as an ornament before a paragraph.
NAME=Case
Text can be either upper case (CAPITAL letters), lower case (small letters), or initial capitals (First Letters Upper Case).
NAME=Cell
A section of a table that you insert your information into. Every table is divided up into cells.
NAME=Centered text
Text that is positioned halfway between the left and right edges of the frame.
NAME=Character
Any single letter, number, punctuation mark, or symbol.
NAME=Check box
A small square box on a dialog box that can be selected or cleared. A check box represents an option that you can turn on or off.
NAME=Clear
To remove the contents of the selected frame(s), table(s) or cell(s) to allow you to place another item into them.
NAME=Clipart
A 'library' of pictures, often classified by themes, that can be used in your documents.
NAME=Clipboard
A temporary holding place for a block of text, a frame or a graphic that has been cut or copied.
NAME=CMYK
A colour model of subtractive mixing with cyan, magenta, yellow and black used to make any other colour. These are the colours of the four inks used in process colour printing.
NAME=Colour palette
A set of colours available to your Publisher documents. You can create more colours to add to the colour palette, or you can delete colours if you do not want to use them. When you save a document, the colour palette is saved as part of the document, with any changes that you have made. Each document can be saved with a different selection of colours in the palette.
NAME=Colour separation
A technique used in colour printing. A colour document is separated into a number of components, each of which is printed using a single colour ink. The combination of separate components reconstitutes the original full colour document. The colour of each separation depends on the separation method used.
NAME=Column
The vertical arrangement of text on the page.
NAME=Column guides
Dotted lines displayed on screen that can be used to help position frames on the page. Column guides are not printed.
NAME=Command
A word or phrase found in a menu that you choose in order to carry out an action.
NAME=Contents box
The small window that lists the named text, pictures and OLE objects in your document.
NAME=Control menu
A standard Windows menu displayed by clicking on the program icon at the top left of a window that allows you to move, resize and close the window.
NAME=Copy
To place a block of text, a frame, or a graphic onto the Clipboard without removing it from the page, so that you can transfer it to another location.
NAME=Crop
To select a part of the picture, imported bitmap, line-art file or OLE object or to be displayed in the document.
NAME=Crop marks
Hairlines drawn on a printout to mark the edge of the document when the printout is printed on paper larger than the page size of the document.
NAME=Custom page
A user-defined page size.
NAME=Cut
To move a block of text, a frame or a graphic from the page onto the Clipboard so that you can transfer it to another location.
NAME=Decimal tab
A tab stop that allows columns of decimal numbers to be aligned at the decimal point.
NAME=Delete
To remove a block of text, a frame, or a graphic, from the page without placing it on the Clipboard. Compare with Cut and Copy.
NAME=Design snippet
A section of a document (a frame or group of frames) that has been saved separately from the main document and can be inserted into other Publisher documents.
NAME=Dialog box
A window used to supply information to Publisher.
NAME=Dithered colour
A color made up of two or more solid colours. For example, orange is a combination of red and yellow.
NAME=Dockable toolbars
These are toolbars that you can move to different positions on the desktop.
NAME=Document
The combination of text and pictures. Also called a Publisher DTP file.
NAME=DPI
The number of dots (pixels) per inch that a printer can produce. Most laser printers print at 300 or 600 dpi. High-resolution phototypesetters provide several thousand dpi. The higher the dpi, the sharper the printout.
NAME=Drag-and-drop
The act of dragging an object (text, pictures etc.) from one program to another. For example, you might drag-and-drop a picture from PhotoFX into your Publisher document.
NAME=Drop caps
An enlarged first letter that drops below or is raised above the first line of text. Sometimes called fancy first letters.
NAME=Duplicate frames
Frames and their contents that have been copied and repeated on other pages in the document using the Repeat on Pages command.
NAME=Em
A unit for measuring widths in a font, equal to the width of the letter 'm' in the current font and point size.
NAME=Embed
To copy an object that was created in a source application, e.g. Draw, into your Publisher document. By embedding an object, you gain fast access to the features of the source application without having to leave Publisher. When you embed an object, a copy of the object file is made and stored within your Publisher document: the original file is not altered in any way and remains available for future use.
NAME=En
A unit for measuring widths in a font, half the width of an em.
NAME=Exceptions dictionary
A file containing a list of words that are exceptions to the standard hyphenation rules, or that are not hyphenated at all (for example, personal names). This file is used by Publisher when deciding where to split a word at the end of a line.
NAME=Export text
To extract text from a DTP file so that it can be edited using a word-processor. The text is saved as a text file that can be opened in word-processing programs.
NAME=Facing pages
A way of displaying pages in the Publisher window. Both the left and right pages will be displayed at the same time (left pages are even page numbers and right pages are odd page numbers).
NAME=Fancy fonts
Fonts of this type may include Ornamental, Script and Brushwood. These and similar fonts are used for more decorative or ornate text, and are useful for PowerText effects.
NAME=Field
A special code that you insert into your document that tells Publisher to insert specific information, such as the date and time. These fields update automatically when the document changes.
NAME=File
A document stored on a hard or floppy disk, or other media.
NAME=File extension
The full-stop and characters at the end of a filename. An extension usually identifies the kind of information a file contains. For example, files that you create using Publisher have the .DTP extension.
NAME=File format
The way in which information is structured in a file. Applications always store files in a particular format. A format readable by one application may not be readable by another application.
NAME=Fill style
The attribute of graphics, frames and PowerText specifying how they should be filled. Fill styles can have different colours, and can be plain, graduated or textured.
NAME=Floating tools
The optional display of the Publisher tools in a moveable window.
NAME=Flushed left
Text which is flush with the right margin and uneven on the left margin. Compare with Left-aligned text.
NAME=Flushed right
Text which is flush with the right margin and uneven on the left margin. Compare with Left-aligned text.
NAME=Folder
Part of a structure for organizing your files on a disk. A folder can contain files and other folders called sub-folders.
NAME=Font
This is used in Publisher to mean the style of type, for example Sans, Serif or Courier. Elsewhere this may be called a typeface, with the term font reserved for a particular weight, size and style of a typeface.
NAME=Footer
Text that appears at the bottom of the page. Publisher has standard footer frames that appear at the bottom of the page, ready for you to add information into.
NAME=Frame
A shape used to hold text, pictures, graphics, PowerText or OLE objects.
NAME=Ghost styles
Gray text displaying the name of the paragraph style on blank lines of text or the name of a mail merge field if it is empty. Ghost styles only appear when they are selected in your preferences. When ghost styles appear, paragraph markers also appear at line breaks.
NAME=Graduated fill style
A fill style that graduates from one colour to another.
NAME=Greeking
A method of representing text by a series of gray horizontal lines, used when text is too small to display legibly, or when a small enough screen font is unavailable.
NAME=Grid
An invisible overlay of crossed lines to help accurate positioning of frames. Precise positioning is assisted by the option of making frames snap to the grid when they are drawn or moved.
NAME=Hairline
A thin line displayed or printed at the finest possible resolution of a particular screen or printer.
NAME=Handles
Small squares on the edges and corners of a selected frame that are used for sizing or rotating.
NAME=Hanging indent
A paragraph style where the first line is flushed with the left margin and subsequent lines are indented.
NAME=Hard spacing
A space that is never 'stretched' during justification or split across line breaks. Compare with Variable space.
NAME=Header
Text that appears at the top of the page. Publisher has standard header frames that appear at the top of the page, ready for you to add information into.
NAME=Highlight
To emphasize an area of text in some way, for example, in inverse video.
NAME=HLS
A colour model using Hue, Lightness and Saturation to specify a colour.
NAME=Hue
The position of a colour along the colour spectrum from 0 to 360 degrees where red is 0, yellow is 60, green is 120, cyan is 180, blue is 240, magenta is 300 and red is 360, again.
NAME=Hyphernation
Splitting a word at the end of a line, to produce a more even distribution of text between lines.
NAME=Import
To load text or a picture created with another program into Publisher.
NAME=In-place editing
To edit an embedded object without having to leave Publisher. Some of the Publisher menus and tools will be temporarily replaced by those of the source application. Linked objects cannot be edited in-place.
NAME=Indent
The gap between the left or right-hand margin and one or more lines of text.
NAME=Information line
A bar at the foot of the Publisher desktop giving hints and tips as you work.
NAME=Internet
A collection of computer networks that connect millions of computers around the world. The Internet is a constantly changing source of information available to anyone, from big businesses to the home user. Searching through the Internet is often referred to as æsurfing the WebÆ.
NAME=Inverse video
To display black and white reversed so that white characters are shown on a black background and vice versa.
NAME=Italic text
A style of text characterized by letters slanting to the right.
NAME=Justified text
Text that aligns evenly with both the left and right margins. This is done by adding extra space between words and characters where necessary.
NAME=Kern
To adjust the spacing between pairs of characters to move them closer together or further apart.
NAME=Keyboard alternatives
An alternative to using the mouse for selection. Keyboard alternatives are shown by underlining a letter in menu titles, dialog boxes and so on. They are also given in other sections of the Help system, when appropriate.
NAME=Keyboard shortcut
A key or key combination that you press to carry out a command or action. If a menu command has a keyboard shortcut, the key combination is listed to the right of the command name on the menu.
NAME=Landscape
A page whose width is greater than its height. Compare with Portrait.
NAME=Language directory
A set of files containing information about the spelling and hyphenation rules of a particular language.
NAME=Layer
These are what your PowerText effects are made up of. You can have layers of 2D or 3D text or background shapes.
NAME=Leader
A row of characters, usually dots, used to guide the reader's eye across the page in, for example, a table of contents.
NAME=Leading
The distance in points from the baseline of one line of text to the next.
NAME=Left-aligned text
Text that is flushed with the left margin and uneven on the right margin. Compare with Right-aligned text.
NAME=Letter spacing
When text is justified, extra space is inserted between the words in each line (see Justified text). If this space exceeds a user-defined maximum value (see Word Spacing), then extra space is added between the letters in each word.
NAME=Lightness
The percentage by which a color approaches black (0 percent) and white (100) percent.
NAME=Line style
The attribute of frames, lines or shapes that specifies how the line or outline should be drawn. Line styles can be drawn with or without arrow-heads and in different colours and thicknesses.
NAME=Lineart file
A picture made up of lines, curves, etc. Compare with Bitmap.
NAME=Link
To create a reference in your Publisher document to a source file. By creating links between files, you save time and ensure consistency in your work. You can share information from one file with several others, and you need only maintain the original file.
NAME=Mail merge
The combination of a standard document, such as a letter, and a data source containing the details of a mailing list. Insert mail merge fields into your document that will automatically pick up the appropriate information from the mailing list e.g. a personÆs name and address.
NAME=Mailing list
A set of records with information, such as name address, telephone numbers, for the people/companies you would send mail merged documents to.
NAME=Margin
The white space surrounding the text area of a page.
NAME=Master page
A single or double-sided page that acts as the foundation for any new pages added to a document.
NAME=Menu
A list of available commands and actions in Publisher. Menu names are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the Publisher window.
NAME=Menu bar
The horizontal bar containing the names of PublisherÆs menus. It is displayed below the title bar.
NAME=Object
A file such as a drawing, chart or sound file that can be linked or embedded into a Publisher document.
NAME=OLE
A way to transfer and share files between Windows applications. OLE lets you produce a document consisting of information created in multiple applications.
NAME=Orphan
A technical term for one or more lines of a paragraph left at the bottom of a column or page. Compare with Widow.
NAME=Overprint
When a color without the overprint property overlaps another color, the color lying under the line or fill is removed when spot color separations are produced. This is sometimes called under color removal. However, if a color has the overprint property selected, it is printed on top of the underlying object without under color removal. The usual color for overprinting with is black, as this can overprint any other color without itself being affected. Under color removal prevents the color of the foreground color being mixed with the underlying color, but imperfect registration of the spot color separations may produce a white hairline around the foreground color. Overprinting can be used to make traps which prevent unwanted color mixing and offset the effects of imperfect registration.
NAME=Padding
The space around a frame into which text cannot flow.
NAME=Page format
The size and orientation of your document's pages, and whether there are left and right pages or all the pages are alike.
NAME=PagePilot
A PagePilot is a feature which can quickly create a certain kind of document, such as a newsletter. It does this by asking you questions and using your answers to automatically lay out and format the type of document you specify. Each PagePilot gives you a choice of several document templates.
NAME=Paper mapping
This is a means of choosing the way you want your documents to be laid out on the page for printing, e.g. as a booklet, or with a number of document pages to one printed page.
NAME=Paragraph
Any line or lines of text ended by pressing the Enter key.
NAME=Paragraph style
The name for a particular type of paragraph with its own set of features, for example, font, alignment, bullets and indents.
NAME=Paste
To insert the contents of the Clipboard into a document.
NAME=Pasteboard
The area around your page that provides an alternative to the Clipboard, but allows you to keep several objects to be pasted visible at one time. You can also move objects from the document to the paste board.
NAME=Path
A straight or curved line consisting of one or more segments joined together at points.
NAME=Pica
A typesetting unit of measurement equal to 1/6 of an inch. Twelve points equal one pica.
NAME=Picture format
The kind of file (line-art or bitmap) that a picture has been saved as.
NAME=Plain fonts
Fonts of this type may include Serifed and Sans. These and similar fonts are most useful for creating plain documents.
NAME=Point
A typesetting unit of measurement equal to 1/72 of an inch.
NAME=Point size
The height of a font measured in points.
NAME=Pointer
The arrow-shaped cursor on the screen that follows the movement of the mouse and indicates which area of the screen will be affected when you press the mouse button. The pointer will change shape when you perform certain tasks.
NAME=Portrait
A page whose height is greater than its width. Compare with Landscape.
NAME=Print margins
The area within the boundaries of the blue rectangular outline on the work area, which shows how much of the page will be printed. This is based on the current page size and orientation of your printer driver.
NAME=Process colour
A colour model of subtractive mixing with cyan, magenta, yellow and black used to make any other colour. Black is used to replace equal mixtures of the other three colours to produce better dark colours.
NAME=Proportional spacing
A means of spacing characters such that the space each character occupies varies according to the width of that character. For example, the letter 'i' occupies less space than the letter 'm'.
NAME=Ragged text
Another term for Left-aligned text.
NAME=Redo
To Redo an action that has been undone. Compare with Undo.
NAME=Registration
The alignment of color separations to reconstitute the full color version.
NAME=Repel text
To make text run around the edges of a frame.
NAME=RGB
A colour model for additive mixing, in which Red, Green and Blue are mixed to produce any colour.
NAME=Right-aligned text
Text which is flush with the right margin and uneven on the left margin. Compare with Left-aligned text.
NAME=Rivers
The alignment of spaces in adjacent lines of text that join together to form white 'rivers' of space running through the text. Rivers are most noticeable when text is justified in narrow columns, because large spaces can occur between words.
NAME=Roman
A style of text characterized by upright letters. Compare with Italic text.
NAME=RTF
Rich Text Format. A standard Windows text format that many word-processors use to save their files.
NAME=Sans serif
A font without serifs (see Serif). This Help system is written in a sans serif font.
NAME=Saturation
The intensity of a colour, or how much hue is present or absent. Completely saturated colour is colour at its most intense (100 percent). At its least intense, a colour is Gray (0 percent).
NAME=Scale
To increase or decrease the size of an imported bitmap or line-art file within a frame. See also Aspect ratio.
NAME=scanner
A device used to convert a picture on paper to a bitmap in a computer. Scanners are usually either hand held or flat bed and either colour or monochrome; most have a TWAIN Windows driver, which Publisher supports. Scanners usually scan at a resolution of between 300 dpi and 600 dpi.
NAME=Screen font
The font that is displayed on your screen, which will approximate a printer font so that documents look as similar as possible on screen to their printed counterparts.
NAME=Scroll bar
A bar that appears at the bottom and/or right edge of a window whose contents are not entirely visible.
NAME=Selected block
A highlighted section of text that can be cut, copied, deleted or styled.
NAME=Serif
A short line at the end of strokes in a character. Times New Roman is a commonly-used serif font. Compare with Sans serif.
NAME=Slider
A box that you can drag to adjust the effect of the control e.g. the tint slider on a colour palette.
NAME=Snap
To make a frame or graphic positionable only on the current grid divisions or column guides.
NAME=Soft hyphen
A hyphen inserted by the user that overrides any automatic hyphenation by the program. A soft hyphen placed at the beginning of a word ensures that the word is not hyphenated at all.
NAME=Source application
The application in which the linked or embedded object was created.
NAME=Source file
The file that provides information to Publisher through a link.
NAME=Spin box
A small box with up and down arrows on its right-hand side that allow you to increase or decrease the value in the box. You can also type directly into the box.
NAME=Spot colour
A colour specified as a spot colour can have its own separation when it is printed instead of being made up of a mixture of process colours.
NAME=Stack pages
A way of displaying pages in the Publisher window. Stacked pages are stacked one above the other so that when you scroll down, you also scroll through the pages.
NAME=String
A series of characters and/or spaces of any length.
NAME=Subscript
Text, in a reduced point size, that is dropped below the baseline of the surrounding text.
NAME=Summary information
Information about a Publisher document, including the author and any notes about the document. You can use the preferences to choose to be prompted to insert any summary information when you save the document.
NAME=Superscript
Text, in a reduced point size, that is raised above the baseline of the surrounding text.
NAME=Synonym
A word that means the same as another word, for example, transparent and clear.
NAME=Tab bar
This is a line embedded in the horizontal ruler bar, which lets you drag tabs to the position you want.
NAME=Tab stop/point
A means of aligning text in columns using tabs.
NAME=Tabbed dialog box
A type of dialog box in which each tab, when selected, shows a different page of the dialog box.
NAME=Text control
You are in text control when any text tab above the preview window is selected. All the tabs to the right of the preview window are text related.
NAME=Text insertion point
A thin vertical flashing line that indicates where text editing will take place.
NAME=Text runaround
Text flowing around the edge of a frame.
NAME=Text selection
Text flowing around the edge of a frame.
NAME=Tile
A way of arranging open windows so that all the windows are visible on the screen.
NAME=Tile pages
A way of displaying pages in Publisher. When you tile pages, Publisher will determine how many pages to have in each column and row.
NAME=Tint
The amount of whiteness applied to a colour, where 0% is white and 100% is the full colour.
NAME=Title bar
The horizontal bar that contains the title of the window or dialog box.
NAME=Toggle
An option that is turned ON or OFF using the same action.
NAME=Toolbar
A number of tools, each representing a menu.
NAME=Tooltip
Tool tips appear as a small flag with a brief description (one or two words) of a tool or object on the Publisher desktop when you position the mouse pointer over it. These can be turned on and off from the Options menu.
NAME=TWAIN
A standard interface for scanners with a TWAIN Windows driver.
NAME=Undo
To undo the last command performed on your document.
NAME=Variable space
A space inserted by pressing Space, that may be 'stretched' during justification and at which lines may be broken. Compare with Hard space.
NAME=View size
The on-screen magnification of a Publisher document.
NAME=Visibility
Whether a frame is solid (hiding what is behind it) or transparent (allowing items behind to show through).
NAME=Web link
A link created in a Web document that will take you to another Web document or a marked point in the same Web document.
NAME=Widow
A technical term for one or more lines of a paragraph left at the top of a column or page. Compare with Orphan.
NAME=Word spacing
The adjustment controlling the minimum and maximum amount of space allowed between words.
NAME=Work area
The on-screen area within which a Publisher document is created.
NAME=WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get: the ability to show on screen an accurate representation of what will be printed.
NAME=x-height
The height of the main body of a lower case letter, not including the ascenders and descenders.
