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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 |