- cascade menu
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A menu that appears when you select certain pull-down menu commands. -
- CD-ROM drive
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A special computer disk drive that's designed to handle CD-ROM discs, which resemble audio CDs. CD-ROMs have enormous capacity (about 500 times that of a typical floppy disk), so they're most often used to hold large applications, graphics libraries, and huge collections of shareware programs. -
- character formatting
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Changing the look of text characters by altering their font, size, style, and more. -
- character spacing
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The amount of space a font reserves for each character. In a monospaced font, every character gets the same amount of space regardless of its true width. In a proportional font, the space allotted to each letter varies according to the width of the letter. -
- check box
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A square-shaped switch that toggles a dialog box option on or off. The option is toggled on when a check mark appears in the box. -
- click
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To quickly press and release the left mouse button. -
- Clipboard
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An area of memory that holds data temporarily during cut-and-paste operations. -
- command button
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A rectangular "button" (usually found in dialog boxes) that, when clicked, runs whatever command is spelled out on it. -
- commands
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The options you see in a pull-down menu. You use these commands to tell the application what you want it to do next . -
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