| A | B |
| Annotate | To write or draw on a slide during a presentation |
| Broadcast | To deliver a presentation live in real time via a network or Internet connection. |
| custom show | A group of slides in a presentation that can be shown separately from the entire presentation. |
| Handout Master | The master that controls the layout and elements of handouts. |
| ink | The annotations created with the pen and highlighter tools during a slide show. |
| landscape orientation | A page orientation that is wider than it is tall. |
| orientation | The direction that material appears on a page when printed |
| portrait orientation | A page orientation that is taller than it is wide. |
| presentation tools | The tools and commands that are active during Slide Show view. |
| timings | The amounts of time assigned to each slide before it automatically advances to the next. |
| comment | A note you insert on a slide while reviewing. |
| Encrypting | The process of transforming data into a non-readable form for security purposes |
| Mark as Final | A setting that prevents changes from being made to a presentation unless the user chooses to acknowledge the warning and edit it anyway; does not provide security |
| Markup | The changes identified between two versions of a presentation when using Compare. |
| OpenDocument | A file format that most word processing programs support, including the free OpenOffice suite |
| Password | A word or phrase that you must type for access to an encrypted file |
| PDF | Page Description Language, one of the page layout formats to which PowerPoint can export; requires Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to read. |
| picture presentation | A presentation that consists of a series of full-screen graphics of slide content, placed on blank slide backgrounds. |
| platform-independent | Able to be used on a variety of operating systems. |
| PowerPoint Show | A presentation that opens by default in Slide Show view. |
| Rich Text Format (rtf) | A text file format that most word processing programs can open and save as. |
| Windows Movie Video (wmv) | The format that PowerPoint saves to when creating videos from presentation files. |
| XPS | One of the page description languages that PowerPoint can output to; requires an XPS Viewer utility to view; this utility comes with Windows Vista and higher and can be downloaded free from Microsoft for other Windows versions. |
| XPS Viewer | A utility that comes free with Windows Vista and later versions that opens an XPS file. |
| After Previous | An animation sequencing setting that causes the animation to trigger after the previous event has finished. Compare to With Previous. |
| Animation | An effect you apply to placeholders or other content to move the content in unique ways on the slide. |
| Animation Painter | A feature that copies animation settings from one object to another |
| Animation Pane | A pane that enables you to manage all the animation effects on the active slide. |
| Audio | A sound or music clip. |
| Delay | An animation setting that specifies how long the effect should pause before it begins. |
| Duration | An animation setting that determines how long an animation effect should take to execute. |
| Emphasis effects | An animation effect that causes an object to move, change color, or otherwise call attention to itself when it is neither entering nor exiting the slide. |
| Entrance effect | An animation effect that occurs when an object is entering the slide. |
| Exit effect | An animation effect that occurs when an object is exiting the slide. |
| Motion path | An animation effect that moves an object along a specified path |
| On Click | A trigger for an animation or transition that occurs when the mouse is clicked. |
| Transition | The movement from one slide to the next. |
| Video | A movie, animated graphic, or motion video clip. |
| With Previous | An animation setting that causes the animation to begin executing simultaneously with the previous animation or event. |