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| Slide show | PowerPoint document that helps deliver a dynamic, professional-looking message to an audience. See also Presentation |
| theme | A specific design with coordinating colors, fonts, and special effects such as shadows and reflections. |
| title slide | Layout that appears when you open a new presentation, whose purpose is to introduce the presentation to the audience |
| placeholders | Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are displayed when you create a new slide. |
| variants | Alternate theme designs. |
| level | A position within a structure, such as an outline, that indicates the magnitude of importance. |
| demoting | Creating a lower-level paragraph in a bulleted list. |
| layout | Settings that specify the arrangement of placeholders on a slide. |
| promoting | Creating a higher-level paragraph in a bulleted list. |
| 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. |
| slides tab | Area of the Slide pane that displays miniature views of individual slides, called thumbnails. |
| smart guides | PowerPoint elements that are displayed automatically when picture, shape, or other object is moved and is close to lining up with another slide element. |
| slide transition | A special effect used to progress from one slide to the next in a slide show. |
| thesaurus | A list of synonyms and acronyms. |
| Slide sorter view | PowerPoint view that occupies the full computer screen. |
| custom animations | Custom animation effects, such as entrance, exit, emphasis, and motion paths, you can use to meet your unique needs. |
| entrance effects | Custom animation effect that determines how slide elements first appear on a slide. |
| exit effects | Custom animation effect that determines how slide elements disappear. |
| emphasis effect | Custom animation effect that modifies text and objects displayed on the screen. |
