Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Terms Yada Yada

Orphan (type):
  • A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column.
  • A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.
Widow (type):
         A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the remainder of the text.
  Grid:
         Gridlines are the gray lines that divide each of the cells, rows, and columns in a spreadsheet. An example of gridlines can be seen in the below illustration.