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| On-screen | You can use all of the PowerPoint special effects and features to make an online (electronic) presentation exciting and complete. You can use such things as slide transitions, timings, movies, sounds, animation, and hyperlinks. |
| Web presentation | To publish a presentation means to place a copy of the presentation in HTML format on the Web. You can publish a complete presentation, a custom show, a single slide, or a range of slides. |
| Overhead Transparencies | You can create a presentation that uses overhead transparencies by printing your slides as black-and-white or color transparencies. You can design these slides in either landscape or portrait orientation |
| Paper printout | You can design your presentation so that it looks great in color and when printed in grayscale or pure black and white on a laser printer. |
| 35mm Slides | A service bureau can transform your electronic slides into 35mm slides. |
| Handout notes | To support your presentation, you can give your audience smaller versions of your slides that are printed two, three, or six or nine slides to a page. |
| Speaker notes | You can also print your own notes to help prompt your verbal accompaniment to the presentation |
| Normal view | This view contains three panes: the outline pane, the slide pane, and the notes pane. These panes let you work on all aspects of your presentation in one place. You can adjust the size of the different panes by dragging the pane borders. |
| Slide pane | You can see how your text looks on each slide. You can add graphics, movies, and sounds, create hyperlinks, and add animations to individual slides. |
| Notes pane | This pane lets you add your speaker notes or information you want to share with the audience. |
| Outline pane | Use this pane to organise and develop the content of your presentation. You can type all of the text of your presentation and rearrange bullet points, paragraphs, and slides. |
| Slide sorter view | You see all the slides in your presentation on screen at the same time, displayed in miniature |
| Slide master | A special type of slide which controls certain text characteristics — such as font type, size, and color — called "master text," as well as background color and certain special effects, such as shadowing and bullet style |
| Animation | To add a special visual or sound effect to text or an object. For example you can have your text bullet points fly in from the left, one word at a time, or hear the sound of applause when a picture is uncovered. |
| Placeholders | Boxes with dotted outlines that appear when you create a new slide. These boxes are for such objects as the slide title, text, charts, tables, organizational charts, and clip art. |
| Transition | A special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show. For example, you can fade in from black or dissolve from one slide to another. |
| Design templates | Slides that contain color schemes with custom formatting, and styled fonts, all designed to create a particular look. |
| .ppt | File extension for a typical Presentation |
| .pot | File extension for Design Template |
| .pps | File extensin for PowerPoint Show |
| .htm | File extension for Web page |
| .wmf | A slide as a graphic |
