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Placeholders | Designated areas in PowerPoint layouts that can be used to easily insert text, graphics, or multimedia objects |
Transitions | The visual effects used when one slide moves off of the screen and another moves onto the screen |
Storyboard | A series of drawings used to illustrate the sequence of action or outline of a presentation |
Theme | Formatting feature that applies a background, colors, fonts, and effects to all slides on a presentation |
Active Slide | The slide currently selected or displayed |
Handouts | Printed copies of the presentation for the audience to refer to during and after the slide show |
Slide Layout | Prearranged sets of placeholders for various types of slide content |
Aspect Ratio | The ratio of width to height in a screen or other output device |
Footer | An area at the bottom of a slide in which you can enter a date, slide number, or other information |
Normal View | PowerPoint’s default view that displays the Slide pane and the Thumbnail pane |
Header | An area at the top of a slide in which you can enter data or other information that repeats for each page |
Landscape Orientation | A slide or printout is wider that it is tall |
Portrait Orientation | A slide or printout that is taller than it is wide |
Properties | Categories of information about a presentation |
Crop | Remove a portion of a picture that you don’t want |
Scale | Specify a percentage of original size to enlarge or reduce the size of an object |
Format Painter | A tool that lets you copy text formatting from one text selection and apply it to any other text in the presentation |
Autofit | - PowerPoint feature is designed to reduce font size to fit text in the current placeholder |
Grayscale | A way of displaying the current slide so that you can see how it will appear when printed on a black and white printer |
Destination | The location or application in which you place an object that was originally in another location or application |
Source | The original location or application of an object you intent to place in another location or application |
Advance Slide Timing | A setting that controls the amount of time a slide displays on the screen |
Presentation | A set of slides or handouts that contains information you want to convey to an audience |