| English | German |
| alt text | Alternativtext, alternativer Text (The text string that appears in place of an image when a Web page is loading, when graphics are not being displayed, or when users pause on the image itself with their mouse) |
| alternative text | alternativer Text, Alternativtext (Text displayed by Web browsers during image downloads for users who have graphics turned off, and for users who rely on screen-reading software to convert graphics on the screen to spoken words) |
| alternative text | Alternativtext (The text string that appears in place of an image when a Web page is loading, when graphics are not being displayed, or when users pause on the image itself with their mouse) |
| block of text | Textblock (A segment of text that can be selected and acted upon as a whole in an application) |
| body text | Textkörper (The text that forms the major content of a publication. Does not include titles, headlines, pull quotes, and captions, for example) |
| boilerplate text | Textbaustein (Recyclable text; a piece of writing or code, such as an organization's mission statement or the graphics code that prints a software company's logo, which can be used over and over in many different documents) |
| caption text | Beschriftungstext (Descriptive text that is associated with a piece of content, such as an image) |
| clear-text password | Klartextkennwörter (A password that is not scrambled, thus making it more susceptible to network sniffers) |
| ClearType Text Tuner | ClearType-Textoptimierung (A program that helps make the text on your screen easier to read for long periods of time) |
| comma-delimited text file | durch Trennzeichen getrennte Textdatei (A data file consisting of fields and records, stored as text, in which the fields are separated from each other by commas) |
| delimited text file | durch Trennzeichen getrennte Textdatei (A file containing data where individual field values are separated by a character, such as a comma or a tab) |
| Draw Text tool | Textzeichentool (An annotation tool used to add notes or comments to a slide) |
| dynamic text field | dynamisches Textfeld (A text field that displays changing text, most often used in conjunction with a progress bar in order to indicate progress) |
| Explain text | Erklärung (Help text displayed when viewing the properties of most Group Policy settings) |
| fixed-width text file | Textdatei mit fester Breite (A file containing data, where each field has a fixed width) |
| free-text searchable | Freitextsuche (" A Yes/No flag in a property definition that indicates whether the property can be found through a free-text search. To set this flag to Yes, the property type must be string or enumerated. A free-text search locates exact matches and words that are inflectionally generated from the one(s) you specified. For example, the word "drive" would return matches for drives, drove, driving, and driven.") |
| full-text catalog | Volltextkatalog (A collection of full-text index components and other files that are organized in a specific directory structure and contain the data that is needed to perform queries) |
| full-text enabling | Volltextaktivierung (The process of allowing full-text querying to occur on the current database) |
| full-text index | Volltextindex (An index that enables full-text search for a group of managed properties) |
| full-text query | Volltextabfrage (As a SELECT statement, a query that searches for words, phrases, or multiple forms of a word or phrase in the character-based columns (of char, varchar, text, ntext, nchar, or nvarchar data types). The SELECT statement returns those rows meeting the search criteria) |
| full-text search | Volltextsuche (A search for one or more documents, records, or strings based on all of the actual text data rather than on an index containing a limited set of keywords) |
| full-text search index | Index für die Volltextsuche (An index that enables full-text search for a group of managed properties) |
| Full-Text service | Volltextsuchdienst (The SQL Server component that performs the full-text querying) |
| Global text direction | globale Textrichtung (Defines the flow of text in text entry boxes and edit controls. You can choose a left-to-right or right-to-left direction, or base the direction on the context of the first strong character that is detected) |
| group text | Gruppen-MMS (A text message thread between a group of people (usually more than 2). It allows you to keep all the replies from people in one thread, so that you can see the whole conversation) |
| hidden text | ausgeblendeter Text (Text that does not display in the normal view of a document's content) |
| hyperlink display text | Linkanzeigetext (The part of a hyperlink in a document or Web page that displays as text on the screen) |
| master text | Mastertext (The slide text on the slide master. The master text determines the format of text on all slides as well as the shape of text placeholders and their placement on slides) |
| overflow text | Überlauftext (Text that does not fit within a text box. The text is hidden until it can be flowed into a new text box, or until the text box it overflows is resized to include it) |
| placeholder text | Platzhaltertext (Text or some other element used in an application as an indicator that the user should enter in his or her own text) |
| plain text | Nur-Text (A string of text that is displayed with one value for each text attribute: typeface, slant, and weight) |
| pure text | reiner Text (Simply formatted text without borders, graphics, or cells. Important for Web publishing) |
| recognized text | erkannter Text (Text that appears under your handwriting on the writing pad or in place of the handwritten letter in the character pad) |
| rich-text box | Rich-Text-Feld (A standard Windows control that is similar to a standard text box, except that it also supports individual character and paragraph properties) |
| rich-text editor | Rich-Text-Editor (ssn) |
| rich-text editor | Rich-Text-Editor (A text-editing program that lets users create instant messages or blog posts that contain rich text elements, such as text formatting and embedded images) |
| rich text field | Rich-Text-Feld (A field that can show formatting and graphics, such as an embedded object, and not just text) |
| Rich Text Format | Rich-Text-Format (An adaptation of DCA (Document Content Architecture) that is used for transferring formatted text documents between applications, even those applications running on different platforms, such as between IBM and compatibles and Macintoshes) |
| rich text XML mapping | Rich-Text-XML-Zuordnung (A type of XML mapping that links WordprocessingML content directly to the backing data in the custom XML part) |
| scrolling text control | Lauftext-Steuerelement (A control or component on a page that displays moving text) |
| static text field | statisches Textfeld (A standard Windows control used for instructions, control labels, and all text that the user doesn't need to horizontally scroll, edit, or select. Compare text box) |
| text area | Textbereich (A rectangular control in an application that allows the user to enter or edit text) |
| text attributes | Textattribute (Any characteristic of text, such as font, size, style, color, or effect such as subscript or superscript) |
| Text-Based Designer | textbasierter Designer (A text-based workflow editor that enables users to create and edit workflows by using declarative statements) |
| text block | Textblock (The text area associated with a shape that appears when you click the shape with the text tool or select it with the pointer tool) |
| text box | Textfeld (A rectangular control in an application that allows the user to enter or edit text) |
| Text Cycle | Textkreis (A SmartArt graphic layout used to represent a continuing sequence of stages, tasks, or events in a circular flow. Emphasizes the arrows or flow rather than the stages or steps. Works best with Level 1 text only) |
| text direction | Textrichtung (The direction text is written in a document, for instance left to right, right to left, horizontal or vertical) |
| Text Display Size | Schriftgröße (An item on the Edit menu that displays a list of relative text sizes for instant message text) |
| text document | Textdokument (A document that contains alphanumeric information, not just 0s and 1s) |
| text editor | Text-Editor (A program that creates files or makes changes to existing files) |
| text effect | Texteffekt (A visual effect that colors, tweaks, or otherwise graphically alters fonts) |
| text field | Textfeld (A standard Windows control that displays static or dynamic text) |
| text file | Textdatei (" A file composed of text characters. A text file can be a word-processing file or a "plain" ASCII file encoded in a format practically all computers can use.") |
| text flow | Textfluss (The way text is displayed in a document, how it behaves and breaks according to settings) |
| text formatting | Textformatierung (Formatting that controls the appearance of a text. Examples include text alignment, intercharacter spacing, text justification, and text and background colors) |
| text frame | Textrahmen (An area within a shape that can contain text) |
| text harvesting | Wortsammlung (A process of extending a handwriting recognizer's lexicon by gathering and storing the user's vocabulary) |
| text label | Beschriftung (Descriptive text that you can add to a form, worksheet, chart, or other document) |
| text message | SMS (A short alphanumeric message that is sent between mobile phones or devices using the SMS protocol) |
| text messaging | Textnachrichten (The process of creating and sending text messages between or to mobile phones and devices using the SMS protocol) |
| text mode | Textmodus (" A display mode in which the monitor can display letters, numbers, and other text characters but no graphical images or WYSIWYG ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get") character formatting (italics, superscript, and so on).") |
| text-mode Setup | Textmodusinstallation (The second of the three stages of Setup, where the basic hardware of the computer (CPU, motherboard, hard disk controllers, file systems, and memory) is determined, the base operating system necessary to continue is installed, and specified folders are created) |
| text notification | Textbenachrichtigung (A type of text e-mail reminder that includes a URL and brief instructions for the user about how to log on and view the spam that was sent to that user's address. This text is customizable on the Spam Filter page) |
| text object | Textobjekt (An entity containing text in a document, for instance a text box or table cell) |
| text-only file | Datei im Textformat (A document file in ASCII format, containing characters, spaces, punctuation, carriage returns, and sometimes tabs and an end-of-file marker, but no formatting information) |
| text placeholder | Textplatzhalter (A symbolic value used instead of a real value which in this case is text) |
| text prediction | Textvorhersage (A recognition feature that helps increase input speed and reduce effort by providing users with word completion and next word prediction alternates as the user is writing/typing) |
| text query | Textabfrage (One or more phrases that can contain operators, quotation marks, wildcards such as or ?, and parentheses) |
| text service | Textdienst (A program that enables a user to enter or edit text. Text services include keyboard layouts, handwriting and speech recognition programs, and Input Method Editors (IMEs). IMEs are used to enter East Asian language characters with a keyboard) |
| Text slide | Textfolie (A blank collaborative slide on which participants can type notes or comments) |
| text stream | Textstream (A type of encoded output that can be included in a Smooth Streaming presentation, such as captions) |
| text string | Textzeichenfolge (A group of characters or character bytes representing text handled as a single entity) |
| text suggestion | Wortvorschlag (A word that's suggested as users type, which they can select to quickly insert) |
| text telephone | Schreibtelefon (A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another) |
| text telephony | Schreibtelefonie (A feature that enables those who are deaf or speech impaired to use the telephone with a teletypewriter) |
| text-to-speech | Text-zu-Sprache (Pertaining to technologies for converting textual (ASCII) information into synthetic speech output. Used in voice-processing applications requiring production of broad, unrelated, and unpredictable vocabularies, such as products in a catalog or names and addresses. This technology is appropriate when system design constraints prevent the more efficient use of speech concatenation alone) |
| text-to-speech engine | Text-Sprach-Modul (The component of Speech Engine Services that processes text input and produces speech output by synthesizing words and phrases) |
| text trainer | Texttrainer (A feature that helps improve the recognition of a user's handwriting by a process in which the user's vocabulary is analyzed in order to "teach" the recognizer which words should be recognized. The text trainer transforms raw user text from text harvesting into a form that can be used by a personalized recognizer) |
| text wrap | Textumbruch (The ability of a word-processing program or a text-editing program to break lines of text automatically to stay within the page margins or window boundaries of a document without the user having to do so with carriage returns, as is typically necessary on a typewriter) |
| text wrapping | Textumbruch (A feature that consists of advanced text wrap functionality, allowing the user to select from various styles to specify how text flows around objects or graphics in a document) |
| text writer | TextWriter (In ASP.NET mobile controls: A mechanism that allows device adapters to write their output through an object. A text writer object is created from the TextWriter base class) |
| transaction text | Buchungstext (A description for a journal line. Transaction text stays with the journal line until an event causes new transaction text to be added, such as when the transaction is settled) |
| typed text | Texteingabe (Text that you enter by using a keyboard or that your Tablet PC converts from handwriting or speech) |
| Video, In Text | Video, im Text (A title animation in Windows Movie Maker) |
| WordArt text | WordArt-Text (The text of a WordArt object) |
