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Brightness | A photo's intensity setting that determines the overall lightness or darkness of the ENTIRE image |
Contrast | A photo's intensity setting that determins the difference between the darkest and lightest areas of the image |
Style | A named group of formatting characteristics including shapes, angles, borders, and reflections that enable you to change a picture's look to be more visually appealing |
Special Characters | Characters not found on the keyboard, such as the section sign § , copyright sign ©,Greek capital letters, etc. that must be inserted from the Symbols Group |
Fill | A color, texture, or pattern that makes up the interior of a background, shape, line, or character |
Solid Fill | A fill that uses one color background and is used throughout the entire slide |
Gradient Fill | A fill that uses one color shade that gradually progresses to another shade of the same color or one color progressing to another color |
Picture or Texture Fill | A fill that uses a specific file or an image that simulates a material, such as cork, granite, marble, or canvas |
Pattern Fill | A fill that adds designs, such as dots or dashes, which repeat in rows across the slide |
Transparency | An adjustment to the appearance of a fill background which allows you to see through the background so that any text on the slide is visible |
Offsets | Another background feature to move the background away from the slide borders in varying distances by percentage |
Tiling Options | A fill adjustment that allows you to repeat the background image many times vertically and horizontally on the slide; the smaller the percentage, the greater the number of times the image is repeated |
Transparency Slider | A slider located in the Format Background pane that allows you to adjust the opaqueness of a fill |
WordArt | Decorative text that can be added to a document |
WordArt Fill | Color, texture, picture, or gradient background or fill that can be added to |
WordArt Outline | The exterior border surrounding each letter or symbol used in WordArt |
WordArt Effect | Allows you to add emphasis or depth to WordArt characters |
Chevron | A "V"- or ">" marking that indicates more. Many software programs use these markings to expand a menu or view other options that may not currently be visible. |
Weight | The thickness of a line starting with 1/4 point and increasing in 1/4-point increments |
Synonym | A word similar in meaning to replace the inappropriate or duplicate word that can be located in a Thesaurus |
Thesaurus | A list of synonyms and antonyms to help you find a replacement or more appropriate word |
Notes Pane | A hidden area on the PowerPoint slide that allows you to type and format comments and notes |
Notes Pages | A printing option in PowerPoint that allows you to print your comments and notes |
Slide Number | A number on a PowerPoint slide that can be automatically inserted to indicate where the slide is positioned within a presentation |
PowerPoint Help | An option used to find answers to questions and display information about various topics in PowerPoint to increase your productivity and reduce frustrations by minimizing the time you spend learning how to use a PowerPoint program. |