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| Action Buttons | Buttons that you create in a presentation that perform an action when you click them. You can have an action button start a video, give information, play a sound, or move to a hyperlink. |
| Animation Effects | Builds, movement, and other special effects that can be applied to objects and text to add interest and variety to a presentation. |
| Animation Icon | Displayed under all slides that have animation applied to them. |
| Animation Preview | Preview the animation effect in the thumbnail. |
| Animations | Effects that allow you to reveal the points on a slide one by one. |
| Application Window | Holds the current presentation. It consists of the default toolbars, but many of the tools and menu items are not available if a presentation is not open. |
| Audience Handouts | Small, printed versions of your slides that can contain an area for notes. They are usually printed and distributed to the audience. |
| Auto Layouts | Slide layouts that have ready-made placeholders for titles, text, and objects such as clip art, graphs, and charts. |
| Auto Shapes | The shapes that are drawn automatically when you click the button representing the shape, and drag the drawing tool to the desired size. |
| Background | Dialog box provides various options that let you change the background look of a single slide or every slide in the presentation. |
| Blank Presentation | Opens PowerPoint's default presentation. You can design or save any presentation as the default so that presentation will open every time you select the Blank Presentation option. |
| Build | A feature that is formed when bullets or objects appear one at a time with animated effects. |
| Bullets | Dots, arrows, or other symbols used to identify items in a list. |
| Clip Art | A collection of professionally designed images that can be inserted into a presentation. |
| Drawing Toolbar | Located on the left side of the PowerPoint window, and contains buttons that provide quick access to commonly used drawing tools and functions. |
| Drawing Tools | Include AutoShapes, lines, and other options that make it easy to draw, color, or position presentation objects. |
| Master Title | The placeholder that holds the formatting for the titles on a Slide Master. This placeholder contains the font, color, size, alignment, and line spacing settings of the slides titles as well as the text's attributes, shape, and placement. |
| Microsoft Clip Gallery | A supplemental application that gives you access to clip art, pictures, sounds, and video clips. Most of the clip art, pictures, sounds, and video clips are located on a CD-ROM, and can be imported from the Clip Gallery dialog box. The Clip Gallery helps you organize and find the clip art and other elements easily. |
| Multimedia | Presenting data in more than one medium, such as combining text, graphics, animation, video and sound. |
| New | To create a new presentation. The command allows you to create a presentation from scratch, or it offers a variety of designs and formats that can be used as a starting point. |
| Office Assistant | Appears on all PowerPoint screens until you close it and can be used to get help and tips on using PowerPoint. |
| Outline View | Allows you to work with slide titles and main text without being distracted by background colors and graphics. You can see most of the text in your presentation at a glance instead of scrolling from slide to slide. You can also rearrange the order and organization of your slides and text, and make formatting changes. |
| Picture | Can be anything from scanned photographs to line art images to artwork from compact discs. |
| PowerPoint Viewer | A program that comes with PowerPoint, but it allows you to view presentations without having PowerPoint installed. |
| Presentation | A collection of slides, handouts, speaker's notes, and an outline, all combined into a file that can be printed onto transparencies or projected from a computer. |
| Presentation Software | A program used to create slide shows or multimedia presentations. |
| Rehearsal Timer | Allows you to set timings for your slides so you can run the presentation on its own. |
| Slide Master | The slide that holds the formatting for the title, the text, and any background items that appear on the slides. Any text styles or graphics that appear on the Slide Master will appear on all of the slides in a presentation. |
| Slide Show View | Shows how a presentation will look when you run it. This allows you to do a test run and even create timed presentations. |
| Slide Sorter View | Displays a reduced image of all the slides in a grid-like fashion. This view makes it easier to rearrange the slides in a presentation and add transitions and special effects. |
| Slide View | Allows you to work on one slide at a time. While in Slide View, you can add any element to a slide, including text, graphics, shapes, and graphs. |
| Slides | The individual pages of your presentation. Slides can be designed with different titles, graphics, text, and much more. |
| Speaker's Notes | Pages with a copy of a slide on top and space below it for taking notes. |
| Template | A slide or presentation that provides a predefined format and color scheme that can be applied to another presentation. PowerPoint provides more than 100 professionally designed templates, or you can use an existing presentation as a template. |
| Transition Icon | In Slide Sorter view, this icon appears under every slide that has a transition applied to it. |
| WordArt | A supplementary application that can be used to manipulate text into shapes. For instance, you can make a phrase or sentence form a circle. |
