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| presentation | A slide show that can help you deliver a dynamic, professional-looking message to an audience |
| deck | A collection of slides used in a presentation |
| variants | Alternate designs, including colors, fonts, and design elements, available in each theme |
| theme | A specific design with coordinating colors, fonts, and special effects such as shadows and reflections with four alternate designs or variants available from which to choose |
| title slide | The first default slide used to introduce information to the audience that appears when a new presentation is opened |
| landscape orientation | A slide layout where the slide width is greater than its height. |
| placeholders | Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are displayed when you create a new slide |
| paragraph | A segment of text or line with the same format that begins when you press the ENTER key and ends when you press the ENTER key again |
| zoom | The view of the slide on the screen so that the text or other content is enlarged or shrunk |
| format | To modify or change the appearance of a character |
| font | Typeface that defines the appearance and shape of the letter, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols |
| style | How the characters are formatted or changed |
| size | The height of the characters gauged by a measurement system that uses points |
| point | 1/72 of an inch measurement in height is the default size for a font character |
| color | Defines the hue of the characters |
| Italic | Text with a slanted appearance |
| multilevel bulleted list slide | A slide that consists of more than one level of bulleted text or lists |
| demoting text | Creating a lower-level paragraph and usually contains information that supports the topic in the paragraph immediately above it |
| promoting text | Creating a higher-level paragraph which usually identifies a main topic |
| layout | The arrangement of placeholders on a slide |
| layout gallery | An arrangement of layouts to define text and content positioning and formatting |
| custom layout | A specific number, size, and location of placeholder |
| normal view | Consists of three areas that allow you to work on various aspects of a presentation |
| slide pane | Displays the slide you currently are developing and allows that you enter text, tables, charts, graphics, pictures, and video and other elements |
| slides tab | An area where a miniature view of the individual slides, called thumbnails |
| notes pane | By default, hidden at the bottom of the window to type notes for the presenter or remarks to share with the audience |
| scroll bar | A horizontal or vertical bar that appears when the contents of an area may not be visible completely on the screen |
| scroll arrows | Located on the scroll bar to click to move the content up or down one line |
| scroll box | Located on the scroll bar to click and drag up or down a section to a specific location |
| insert picture dialog box | Allows you to search for picture files that are stored on your computer or a storage device |
| rotation handle | Located above an object and allows you to rotate an object in any direction |
| drag and drop | The process of dragging and then dropping the thumbnail slide into a new location |
| slide transition | A special effect used to progress from one slide to the next in a slide show |
| document properties | All the details about a file or document such as project author, title, and subject in order to quickly locate a particular fileand to organize similar files without opening the document |
| standard properties | Properties associated with Microsoft Office files that include author, title, and subject |
| automatically updated properties | Properties that include file system properties such as the date you create or change a file, and statistics such as the file size |
| slide show view | A view of a presentation that begins when you click the "Start From Beginning" button or the "Slide Show" button |
| black slide | The default setting to end a PowerPoint presentation and appears after the last slide is shown |
| smart guides | Layout guides automatically appear as dashed lines to help you align slide elements, pictures, shapes or other objects, vertically and horizontally |
| resizing | Enlarging or reducing the size of a graphics using a variety of techniques |
| selection rectangle | Surrounds a selected graphic with small circles called sizing handles |
| sizing handles | Move handles at each corner and middle location in order to resize or reposition a selected graphic |
| slide indicator | An indicator that shows the number and title of the slide you are about to display |
| level | A position within a structure, such as an outline or PowerPoint slide, that indicates the magnitude or position of importance--PowerPoint allows for 5 |