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| presentation | A slide show that can help you deliver a professional-looking message to an audience |
| title slide | The first slide the with the title and subtitle of the presentation |
| placeholders | boxes with dotted borders or boxes that you can use to type information in |
| format | to change the appearance of a PowerPoint presentation |
| bulleted list | a list of paragraphs with a bullet character |
| landscape orientation | the slide width is greater than its height |
| theme | a specific design with coordinating colors, fonts, and special effects such as shadows and reflections |
| transition | an effect like "fade" or "wipe" that help one slide flow gracefully into the next during a slide show |
| layout | the arrangement of placeholders on a slide |
| layout gallery | a group of different layout designs that you can choose from--Microsoft PowerPoint has 9 that you can choose from. |
| view | the way a presentation appears on the screen--normal view is the default view |
| normal view | is composed of three areas that you can use to work on a presentation: slide pane, slide tabs with thumbnails, and notes pane to add speaker notes |
| smart guides | lines that appear to help align or position a picture, shape, or object on a slide |
| selection rectangle | a graphic that appears around a picture when it is selected |
| sizing handles | small circles at the sides and each corner of a picture used to make an object bigger or smaller |
| variants | a set of alternate designs within a theme |
| italic | text with a slanted appearance |
| bold | text that is thicker and darker |
| animation | movement of objects or text on a PowerPoint slide such as "float in" or "fly in" |
| paragraph | a line of text that begins when you press ENTER and ends when you press ENTER |