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    The document defines key terms used in document production such as points, orientation, gutter, orphans, widows, wrapping, margins, page breaks, line spacing, tabulation, indented paragraphs, hanging paragraphs, and mail merge. Specifically, it explains that points are the unit used to measure font size, orientation refers to portrait or landscape page layout, the gutter is the margin at the edge of a page to clear text from the fold, orphans are paragraphs that end at the bottom of a page, and widows are the last line of a paragraph left alone at the top of a new page. It also defines common formatting elements such as margins, page breaks, line spacing, tabulation, and how paragraphs can

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    The document defines key terms used in document production such as points, orientation, gutter, orphans, widows, wrapping, margins, page breaks, line spacing, tabulation, indented paragraphs, hanging paragraphs, and mail merge. Specifically, it explains that points are the unit used to measure font size, orientation refers to portrait or landscape page layout, the gutter is the margin at the edge of a page to clear text from the fold, orphans are paragraphs that end at the bottom of a page, and widows are the last line of a paragraph left alone at the top of a new page. It also defines common formatting elements such as margins, page breaks, line spacing, tabulation, and how paragraphs can

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    Document Production Notes

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    Falahath Jayran
    The document defines key terms used in document production such as points, orientation, gutter, orphans, widows, wrapping, margins, page breaks, line spacing, tabulation, indented paragraphs, hanging paragraphs, and mail merge. Specifically, it explains that points are the unit used to measure font size, orientation refers to portrait or landscape page layout, the gutter is the margin at the edge of a page to clear text from the fold, orphans are paragraphs that end at the bottom of a page, and widows are the last line of a paragraph left alone at the top of a new page. It also defines common formatting elements such as margins, page breaks, line spacing, tabulation, and how paragraphs can

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    Document Production

    I. Complete the following sentences.


    (a) The unit used to measure the size of a font is called Points
    (b) A page can be portrait or landscape. This is called Orientation
    (c)The special margin that is placed at the top or edge to clear the text from the fold in a page is called the Gutter
    (d) When the first line of a paragraph appears as the last line of a page this is called Orphans
    II. Explain the meaning of the following terms used in document production.
    a) Gutter: The extra margins created for documents that need to be bound into a book form, so the binding
    doesn’t obscure the text.

    b) Header & Footer: Headers and footers are pieces of text, or graphics, that appear at the top(Header) and
    bottom(Footer) of a page. After you set up a header and footer, they will appear on all of your pages.

    c) Widow: The last line of a paragraph that spills over onto the top of the next page where it is left by itself.

    d) Orphan: The first line of a paragraph that is left on the bottom of a page by itself.

    e) Wrapping: Text wrap is a feature supported by many word processors that enables you to surround a
    picture or diagram with text. The text wraps around the graphic.

    f) Margin : The s[ace around the edges of a page is referred to as a margin.

    g) Page break : A page break shows where one page ends and another page begins.

    h) Line spacing : Space between the lines in a block of text.

    i) Tabulation : Tabulation refers to how far to the left or right text is intdented.

    j) Indented paragraph: A paragraph that begins its first line of text few spaces away from the left hand
    margin.
    k) Hanging paragraph : Indentation of the second and subsequent lines of a paragraph that is different
    from the first indentation of the paragraph.

    l) Mail merge : Mail merge is a way of combining the data


    source into other document types in order to make multiple
    copies of the same document for the purpose of sending it to
    many different people.Mail merge requires a master document
    and a data source which are merged once place holders from
    the data source have been inserted in to the document.

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