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| Animated object | An object such as a picture, text box, or other graphic that appears by itself during a presentation. |
| Animated text | Text that displays on a slide one line or bulleted point at a time. |
| Animation | A sound or visual effect added to a presentation to make the presentation more interesting. |
| Bit-mapped image (bitmap) | An image made from a series of small dots; it may have a .bmp, .png, .jpg, or .gif file extension. |
| Embed | To insert a source file into a destination file; any changes made later to the source file are not reflected in the destination file |
| Footer | A line of text that appears at the bottom of each page in a file, containing information such as the document's name, a page number, or the date. |
| Header | A line of text that appears at the top of each page in a file containing information such as the document's name, a page number, or the date. |
| Link | The connection between a source file and a destination file, or between two tables; any changes made later to the source file are reflected in the destination file. |
| Slide master | A hidden slide in every presentation that stores design template specifications—such as placeholder sizes and positions, bullet styles, font styles and sizes, and background color—for all slides but the title slide. The slide master can be used to make changes to an entire presentation. |
| Title master | A hidden slide in every presentation that stores design template specifications—such as placeholder sizes and positions, font styles and sizes, and background color—for any slide that uses the Title Slide layout. |
| Transition | The way in which one slide replaces another during a presentation. |
| Liquid Crystal Display Projector (LCD) | Equipment that allows you to project the slides in a PowerPoint presentation in slide show view from your computer onto a blank wall or large video screen. |