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PowerPoint Vocabulary

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AnimationText or pictures that have motion.
Normal ViewThis view has four panes the slides pane, the task pane, the outline pane, and the notes pane.
Notes page viewDisplays your slides on the top portion of the page, with the speaker notes for each slide in the notes pane on the bottom of the page.
Outline tabDisplays all of the text in your slide show in outline form.
PowerPoint PresentationAn Office application that can help you create a professional presentation by illustrating your ideas using slides, outlines, speaker’s notes, and audience handouts. A presentation can include text, clip art, graphs, tables, and charts.
Slide paneThe workbench for PowerPoint presentations.
Slide Show viewAllows you to run your presentation on the computer as if it were a slide projector and preview how it will look.
Slide Sorter viewDisplays miniature versions of the slides on screen so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging.
Slides tabDisplays your slides as small pictures or thumbnails.
Task paneContains common tasks that are frequently used when creating a presentation.
AnimateTo add sound or visual effects to an object, text, or slide.
AutoContent WizardGuides you through a series of questions about the type of presentation, output options, presentation style, and presentation options.
Blank PresentationFeature that lets you create a presentation from scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer.
Design templatePredesigned graphic styles that you can apply to your slides.
Effects optionsAllows you to control how the text enters the screen and add sounds.
Handout masterLets you add items that you want to appear on all your handouts such as a logo, date, time, and page numbers.
HyperlinkWords or objects that may be clicked to move from page to page within a slide presentation or to jump to a Web site.
Motion PathsPredefined paths for the movement of an object.
Notes masterAllows you to include any text or formatting that you want to appear on all your speaker notes.
Picture toolbarAllows you to adjust the color, contrast, and brightness of your picture. You can also crop, rotate, add a border, compress, or set a transparent color.
PlaceholderReserves a space in the presentation for the type of information you want to insert.
Show Advanced Timeline .Displays the time of the animation as a horizontal line graph
Slide masterControls the formatting for all the slides in the presentation.
Slide transitionsDetermine how one slide is removed from the screen and how the next appears.
Charts (graphs)Provide a graphical way to display statistical data.
DatasheetA table that contains sample data and automatically appears when you create a chart.
GroupingAllows you to work with several objects as though they were one object.
HandlesIndicate that the object is selected and allow you to manipulate the selected object.
Organization chartsShow the hierarchical structure and relationships within an organization.
Shift-clickingAllows you to select objects that are not close to each other or when the objects you need to select are near other objects that you do not want to select.
EmbedInformation that becomes part of the current file, but is a separate object that can be edited using the application that created it.
Format PainterUsed to format an object with the same attributes as another object.
Grid settingsSets the spacing between the intersections of the gridlines.
Guide settingsA set of crosshairs that help you align an object in the center, left, right, top, or bottom of a slide.
Package for CDCompacts all your presentation files into a single, compressed file that fits on a CD.
Snap toMoves an object to the closest gridline on a slide.


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Union County High School
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