Action Settings: allows the presenter or the viewer to move through the slideshow at their own pace and order.

Advanced: allows you to set preferences that will change the set up which will affect all the aspects of Internet Explorer.

Alias: An icon that points to a particular file, folder or application in the Macintosh OS.

Animation: The creation of artificial moving images.

au: Filename extension

Audio: sound, computers work with digital audio.

Appearance: this will allow you to change different aspects of the display, such as the font, color and toolbar.

Application: A program designed to perform a specific function directly for the user or, in some cases, for another application.

Article Citation: identifies the article title, the author of the article, the peridical title in which the article was published, and the date of the article.

Attachment: Files, spreadsheets, graphics, and web links that can be sent with an email message.

Bandwidth: The information-carrying capacity of the wires and channels that connect everyone in cyberspace. are sent along with an electronic message.

Bar Chart: compares individual items. Categories are organized vertically, values horizontally to place more emphasis on comparing values than on time.

Bibliography: is a list of books, articles, and other sources, either on the same topic or by the same author.

Bit (Binary Digit): The smallest unit of information in a computer.

Bookmark: A saved link to a page in a list of saved links.

Boot Up: To load an operating system into the computer's RAM (Random Access Memory).

Browser: a program that accesses and displays files avaliable on the World Wide Web.

Byte (Binary Term): A unit of storage capable of holding 8 bits.

CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory): A read-only storage medium. CD-ROMs contain up to 650MB of information.

CD-ROM Drive: A device that can read data from a CD-ROM.

Cell: The intersection of a row and column.

Cell Reference: Identifies a particular cell.

Central Processing Unit (CPU) or Processor: A microchip containing the logic circuitry that responds to and processes instructions that drive the computer.

Chart: Graphic representation of worksheet data.

Chart Title: Identifies the purpose of the chart.

Clipboard: A temporary storage area for the last thing you cut or copied.

Column Chart: Shows changes in data over a period of time or illustrates comparisons among items.

Composer: the HTML editor used by Netscape to create web pages. These preferences will reflect on any web pages your create in this application

Copy: Temporarily store text on the clipboard.

Cut: Delete text from a page.

Data Label: Identifies specific points or series.

Data Series: A group of related data points plotted in a chart that originates from rows or columns on a single worksheet.

Desktop: The main GUI generated by the operating system.

Digital Communication: is when computers use telephone lines to translate digital data into audio signals and then back to digital form.

Document Map: A vertical plane along the left edge of the document window that displays an outline of the document's headings.

Domain Name: string of letters used to name organizations, computers and addresses on the Internet.

Email: An electronic message sent from one computer to another.

Encode: Translation of messages into symbols that the computer understands.

Floppy Disk: A portable magnetic storage medium for computer data. Floppy disks typically hold 1.44 MB of information.

Floppy Disk Drive: A device that reads data from and writes data to a floppy diskette.

Formula: A sequence of values, cell references and operators used to produce a new value from existing cells.

Frame: Tool used to divide web pages into sections that are independently controlled (i.e., each section is a separate web page).

FTP: a system for transferring files between computers.

Gigabyte: A measure of electronic holding space. One gigabyte equals 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Graphical User Interface (GUI): A program interface that takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use.

Gridlines: Optional lines on a chart.

Hard Drive: The primary storage location on the computer.

Hardware: The physical components of the computer system.

Hierarchical File System: A file system that is organized in the shape of a pyramid.

Hiding Slides: the slide remains in your file, even though it is hidden when you run the presentation.

High-speed modems: A device that enables a computer to communicate with other computers over telephone lines by translating digital data into audio signals(on the sending computer) then back into digital form (on the receiving computers).

Home Page: User defined page to be displayed when you launch your web browser. This page will always be displayed when you click on the Home button.

Host: a computer that other computers can use to gain information; any computer attached to a network.

HTTP: The protocol for transporting HTML documents across the Internet.

Hyperlink: a cross-reference in an electronic document that, when activated, causes the application reading the document to load a different section of the document, a new document, or a resource that the application can display or use.

Icon: A symbol or picture designed to illustrate a function or application.

Image: a picture that was created or viewed on a computer.

Input Device: Any device that generates input for the computer.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL): is the process by which libraries borrow books and periodical articles from other libraries.

Internet: Worldwide system of computer networks.

Internet Protocol: the data transmission standard for the Internet. Every computer connected to the Internet has its own IP Address, which allows a packet or unit of data to be delivered to a specific computer.

Internet Service Provider (ISP): A company that provides individuals and other companies access to the Internet.

Justify: The aligning of text either uniformly across a page, or to the left, right or center.

Keyboard: An input device used to submit data to the computer.

Kilobyte: A measure of electronic holding space. One kilobyte equals 1,024 bytes.

Kiosk: runs the slide show full-screen as a self-running show that restarts after 5 minutes of inactivity.

Leader Character: A solid, dashed or dotted line that fills the space used by a tab character.

Legend: Key to the data represented by a chart.

Line Chart: Shows trends in data at equal intervals.

Mail and Newsgroups: allows you to specify what news and mail protocols you will receive, and also allows you to set up your identity for Netscape mail.

Mail Server: A computer or device on a network that manages mail.

Megabyte: A measure of electronic holding space. One megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes.

Memory: The electronic holding place for instructions and data that your computer's microprocessor can reach quickly.

Monitor: A video or computer display device.

Mouse: A small hand-controlled input device that relays signals to the computer, which moves a corresponding pointer on the monitor screen.

mpeg: is a video file format which deals with the data specifically.

Navigator: allows you to specify your home page, set the language, specify the helper applications (plug-ins), and smart browsing which allows you to configure browsing aids.

Netiquette: Network etiquette--or a set of rules for behaving properly online.

Newbie: A person that is new to the Internet environment.

Notes Pane: allows you to add notes that relate to each slide's content. PowerPoint allows you to print a notes page as well.

Offline: allows you to choose the start up mode of Netscape.

Operators: Addition (+), Subtraction (-), Multiplication (*), and Division (/).

Outline Tab: allows you to see slide text in outline form.

Output Device: Any device that displays information from the computer

Packets: data processed by protocols so it can be sent across a network.

Paste: Inserting information into a document from the clipboard.

Periodicals: are newspaers, magazines, and journals that are published at intervals (periodically).

Pie Chart: Shows the relationship of items that make up data series to the sum of the items.

Placeholders: Boxes lined with dotted borders used for entering data.

POP3 Mail Server: A mail server used to store messages until users logon and download their mail.

Program: The Windows OS term for an application (see definition above).

Protocols: control the way data is transfered between server and client computers on the Internet.

Random Access Memory (RAM): Primary working memory that holds data and instructions while the computer is in use.

Range: A colon inserted between two cell references.

Read Only Memory (ROM): Built in memory that permanently stores instructions and data. (The instructions and data in ROM are created when it is manufactured and cannot be changed.)

Reboot: To restart a computer.

Roaming access: allows you to enter your server login information.

Search Engine: a remotely accessible program that lets you do key word searches for information on the Internet.

Separator: A blank link in a list of saved links.

Server: is the part of the network that responds to requests from other computers in the network with documents or other information which they requested.

Shortcut: An icon that points to a particular file, directory or application in Windows OS.

Slide Master: is an element of the design template that stores information about the template, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes.

Slide Pane: shows the current slide enlarged.

Slide Show View: takes up the full computer screen, like an actual slide show presentation.

Slides Tab: shows a thumbnail view of each slide in the presentation.

Spreadsheet: A table of values arranged in rows and columns.

Speaker: A device that translates computer signals into sound.

Start Page: User defined alternate to the home page. The start page will be displayed when the browser is launched but not when you click on the Home button.

Statistical Sources: are books that contain numerical data that can support your research.

Subheadings: subject headings are terms from a controlled vocabulary that are assigned to books in WebCat and to periodical articles in the Library's online databases.

Suffix: a letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or root to modify the meaning.

Template: A ready-made format, complete with margins, fonts, headers, and footers, numbering, logos, or any other kind of formatting the designer wants to appear on each page.

TexShare: is extended free reciprocal borrowing privileges to each other's students, faculty, and staff.

Toolbar: A series of buttons and menus in an application, which allows the user to perform functions quickly using the mouse.

Transitions: effect how the display changes as the user moves from one slide to another.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP): the low level software that makes the Internet work.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL): the technical name for a text string that supplies an Internet or Intranet address and the method by which it can be accessed.

Value: The number resulting from the execution of a formula.

Webcat: is a database that contains a record for every item the library owns.

Wildcard: A symbol that allows the user to perform unrestricted find routines in Windows OS.

Window: A resizable viewing area on a computer display screen in a system that allows multiple viewing areas as part of a graphical user interface (GUI).

Write-Protected Disk: Physically altering the disk so that changes cannot be made to the files contained on it.