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| Presentation | A set of slides or handouts that contains information you want to convey to an audience. |
| Normal view | PowerPoint's default view that displays the Slide pane, the Notes pane, and the Slides/Outline pane. |
| Placeholders | Designated areas in PowerPoint layouts that can be used to easily insert text, graphics or multimedia objects. |
| Active slide | The slide currently selected or displayed. |
| Slide layout | Prearranged sets of placeholders for various types of sllde content. |
| Theme | Formatting feature that applies background, colors, fonts. and effects to all slides in a presentation. |
| Clip art | Predrawn artwork, photos, animations, and sound clips that you can insert into your files. |
| Contextual tab | A Ribbon tab that displays only when needed for a specific task such as formatting a table or offering picture formatting options. |
| Font | A set of characters with a specific size and style. |
| Template | A presentation that is already formatted with a slide design and may also inclued sample text to guide you in completing the presentation. |
| Footer | An area at the bottom of a slide in which you can enter a date, slide number, or other information. |
| Header | An area at the top of a slide in which you can enter a date or other information that repeats for each page.. |
| Handouts | Printed copies of the presentation for the audience to refer to during and after the slide show. |
| Landscape orientation | A slide or printout that is wider than it is tall. |
| Portrait orientation | A slide or printout that is taller than it is wide. |