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| Animation | The association of the elements on the slide with special look or sound effect. |
| Demote | to decrease the outline level |
| Promote | to raise the outline level of that item |
| Second level bullet | A bullet beneath a first level bullet |
| Handout | Printouts of the slides themselves |
| Notes | Help the speaker remember what to say when a particular slide appears during the presentation |
| Notes pane | The area of the PowerPoint window that contains speaker notes |
| Placeholder | A region of a slide, or location in an outline, reserved for inserting text or graphics |
| Slide Layout | A predetermined way of organizing the objects on a slide including placeholders for title text and other objects (like clip art, charts, bulleted lists, etc) |
| Slide master | The master slide that contains the objects that appear on all the slides except the title slide |
| Slide transition | The manner in which a new slide appears on the screen during a slide show |
| Template | A PowerPoint file that contains the colors, background format, font styles, and accent colors for a presentation |
| Themes | A designed collection of formatting options that include colors, graphics, and background images |
| Thumbnail | Miniature images of slides |
| Views | How you see a presentation- |