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| Presentation | PowerPoint document that helps deliver a dynamic, professional-looking message to an audience. |
| Slide Show | PowerPoint document that helps deliver a dynamic, professional-looking message to an audience. |
| Deck | A collection of slides in a presentation, commonly resembling a deck of cards stacked on top of each other, that is used to enhance an oral presentation. |
| Theme | A specific design with coordinating colors, fonts, and special effects such as shadows and reflections. |
| Variant | Alternate theme designs |
| Title Slide | Layout that appears when you open a new presentation, whose purpose is to introduce the presentation to the audience. |
| Placeholder | Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are displayed when you create a new slide. |
| Paragraph | A segment of text with the same format that begins when you press the ENTER key and ends when you press the ENTER key again. |
| Level | A position within a structure, such as an outline, that indicates the magnitude of importance. |
| Zoom | Viewing feature in PowerPoint that allows you to display a view of the slide so that the text or other content is enlarged or shrunk. |
| Format | Modify the appearance, or format, of typed characters on the screen and in print, including changing the font, style |
| Font | Typeface that defines the appearance and shape of the letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols. |
| Style | A named group of formatting characteristics. |
| Size | The height of characters that is gauged by a measurement system that uses points. |
| Point | Size measurement that is 1/72 of an inch in height. |
| Color | Format that defines the hue of characters. |
| Italic | Font format that causes text to have a slanted appearance. |
| Bulleted List | A list of paragraphs, each of which may be preceded by a bullet character, such as a dot, arrow, or checkmark. |
| Multilevel bulleted List | A slide that consists of more than one level of bulleted text. |
| Demoting Text | Creating a lower-level paragraph in a bulleted list. |
| Promoting | Creating a higher-level paragraph in a bulleted list. |
| Layout | Settings that specify the arrangement of placeholders on a slide. |
| Layout Gallery | PowerPoint feature that allows you to choose a slide layout that define text and content positioning and formatting. |
| Custom Layout | PowerPoint feature that allows you to create a layout if none of the layouts in the gallery meet your design needs. |
| Normal View | Default PowerPoint view that is composed of three areas that allow you to work on various aspects of a presentation simultaneously. |
| Slide Pane | Large area in the middle of Normal view that displays the slide you currently are developing and allows you to enter text, tables, charts, graphics, pictures, video, and other elements. |
| Slide Tab | Area of the Slide pane that displays miniature views of individual slides, called thumbnails. |
| Notes Pane | Area of PowerPoint window, in Normal or Outline view, that you can use to type notes to yourself or remarks to share with your audience. |
| Scroll bar | Area of PowerPoint window that allows you to use scroll boxes or arrows to move forward or backward through a presentation. |
| Scroll arrow | Area of PowerPoint scroll bar that allows you to move forward or backward through a presentation. |
| Scroll boxes | Area of PowerPoint scroll bar that you can drag or click above or below to move forward or backward through a presentation. |
| Insert Picture Dialog Box | Dialog box that is displayed when you click the Pictures button that allows you to search for picture files that are stored on your computer or a storage device. |
| Resizing | Changing the size of a graphic, either by reducing or enlarging. |
| Selection Rectangle | Lines that appear around a selected graphic, which include small circles called sizing handles at each corner and middle location. |
| Sizing Handles | Small circles that appear around a selected graphic. Also called move handles. |
| SmartGuides | PowerPoint elements that are displayed automatically when picture, shape, or other object is moved and is close to lining up with another slide element. |
| Rotation Handle | Icon that appears above a selected object that you can use to rotate an object in any direction. |
| Black Slide | PowerPoint default slide that appears only when the slide show is running and concludes the slide show, so that an audience never sees the PowerPoint window. |
| Drag and Drop | The process of sliding or dragging and then dropping a thumbnail in a new location. |
| Slide Transition | A special effect used to progress from one slide to the next in a slide show. |
| Document Properties | Details about a file, such as the project author, title, and subject. |
| Standard Properties | Document properties that are associated with all Microsoft Office files and include author, title, and subject. |
| Automatically Updated Properties | Document properties that include file system properties, such as the date you create or change a file, and statistics, such as the file size. |
| Slide Show View | PowerPoint view that allows you to look at several slides at one time. |
