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| Animation | the movement of text, graphics, or other objects within a slide. Animation will vary the way in which objects on a slide appear, the order of the appearance, and how and when objects disappear. |
| Background | the underlying color of a slide. |
| Blank Presentation | Feature that lets you create a show from scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer |
| Bullets | - marks, usually a round or square dot, used to emphasize or distinguish items in a list. Bullets are common in Powerpoints |
| Clip Art | Clip art refers to any picture or art image that you add to improve your presentation. This can be done by pulling down the Insert menu, selecting “insert picture” then “Clip Art” and then selecting the picture you would like to add. |
| Design Template | – a pre-designed background and format that you can apply to one or all of the background slides in a presentation. |
| Effects | the formatting features that move the text on and off of the single slides |
| Handouts | – Way of printing the Powerpoint so that multiple slides appear on each page. |
| Hyperlink | – A shortcut that allows you to go from the presentation to another program, document, specific slide or to a website. |
| Multimedia | combined use of more than one media, text, image, sound, video, etc. |
| Slide Layout | A predefined slide format that determines the position of the objects on the slide. You can access 24 different slide layouts by pulling down the Format menu, clicking “slide layout” and then choosing one that best suits your needs. |
| Slide Show – | the view that allows you to run your presentation and preview how it will look. |
| Title Slide | the first slide in a presentation; slide indicating the title of the presentation and the presenter’s name |
| Transitions | the effects that move one slide off the screen and the next slide on during a slide show. |
| PowerPoint | a software program that allows you to create professional looking multimedia presentations |
