| A | B |
| Animate | Adding a sound or visual effect |
| AutoContent Wizard | Guides you through a series of questions about the type of presentation, output options, presentation style, and presentation options. |
| Blank Presentation | Feature that lets you create a presentation from scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer. |
| Design template | Pre-designed graphic styles that you can apply to your slides |
| Handout master | Lets you add items that you want to appear on all your handouts, such as a logo, the date, the time, and page numbers |
| Notes master | Allows you to include any text or formatting that you want to appear on all your speaker notes. |
| Placeholder | Reserves a space in the presentation for the type of information you want to insert. |
| Slide master | Controls the formatting for all the slides in the presentation. |
| Slide transitions | Determine how one slide is removed from the screen and how the next one appears. |