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| Action button | Shapes that will take you to the previous or next slide, the first or last slide, a specific slide, or even another presentation or file when clicked. |
| Animation | Visual effect involving the movement of elements. |
| Clip Art | Collection of graphics which can be used to illustrate documents. |
| Content box | Set of icons in a slide layout that enables the user to specify what type of element they want to add to a slide; when clicked, the appropriate Insert dialog box opens. |
| Content layout | Slide template used for tables, charts, and other graphic elements. |
| Custom Animation task pane | Window that opens on the right side of the main PowerPoint |
| Design template | window that enables the user to add custom animation elements to a slide. |
| Handouts | Printed set of PowerPoint slides to be given out to the audience. |
| Hyperlink | Link that can be clicked on to open a Web site or Web page on the Internet. |
| Multimedia elements | Graphic objects like a picture or data objects like a table that are included in a PowerPoint presentation. |
| Normal | PowerPoint view used to create presentations; includes a main window and list of slides. |
| Notes page | PowerPoint view that shows each slide along with a separate |
| Outline tab | area where the user can add notes for their own use or to be included in handouts for the audience. |
| PowerPoint Show | Method of saving presentations that automatically plays the slide show when opened; cannot be viewed in Normal or Slide Layout views. |
| Slide design | Pre-formatted blank slides you can choose from when adding a new slide to a presentation. |
| Slide layout | Pre-formatted blank slides with various elements already positioned on the slide. |
| Slide master | Master template that contains the building block elements that each new slide is based on; changing the slide master changes all the slides in the presentation. |
| Slide projector | Piece of video equipment used to display presentations on a screen or blank wall. |
| Slide show | Presentation of a series of slides containing text, pictures, graphs, charts, and more. |
| Slide sorter | Document view in PowerPoint that shows all the slides in a presentation and allow them to be rearranged. |
| Slide views | Various ways of displaying slides in a PowerPoint presentation, including: normal, slide sorter, slide show, and notes page. |
| Slides tab | One of the two tabs in Normal view of PowerPoint (Slides tab and Outline tab) that shows all the slides in a presentation as small thumbnails. |
| SmartArt graphic | Option in PowerPoint that allows the user to insert a graphic or flow chart into a slide. |
| Speaker notes | Notes added to a separate window in PowerPoint that contain information for a presenter to use when giving the PowerPoint slide show. |
| Text box | PowerPoint element that allows the user to enter text in a slide. Also any field in a form on a Web page or other document where the user can enter text. |
| Text layout | Template slide used to add text elements to a PowerPoint slide. |
| Theme | Set of color or style options in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook that enables a user to create matching professional looking documents either within a single program or across multiple programs. |
| Transition | PowerPoint animations that change the display from one slide to the next. |
