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| placeholder | empty objects on a new slide that reserve a space for the type of information you want to insert. |
| powerpoint | a software program that allows you to create professional looking multimedia presentations. |
| slide | a single page of a presentation in a slide show. |
| slide master | controls the formatting for all the slides in the presentation. |
| slide sorter | the view that displays miniature versions of the slides so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging. |
| slideshow | the view that allows you to run your presentstion and review how it will look. |
| transition | an effect that determines how one slide is removed from the screen and how the next appears. |
| background | the underlying color of a slide. |
| notes page | allows the user to create notes to be used with the presentation of each slide. |
| scroll bar | a graphical device for moving vertically and horizontally through a presentation slide with the pointer. |
| animation | the audio include with effects and transitions to give the presentation a "real" veiwing experience |
| auto layout menu | the menu containing ready'made placeholders for titiles, text, and objects such as clip art, graphs, and charts |
| bullets | marks, usually a round or square dot, used to emphasize of distinguish items in a list |
| edit box | the figure which appears when your adding text to a slide; it has white squares that surround it for editing purposes |
| effects | the formatting features that move the text on and off of the single slides |
| outline view | view displays the text of the slide with no other features |
| slide view | view displays a single slide and allows the user to insert clip, chang the backgrounds, edit transitions, effects, and add animations. |
| blank presentation | feature that lets you create a show ffrom scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer |
| design template | a predesigned model that you can apply to one or all of the background slides in a presentation |
| hyperlink | a shortcut that allows you to go from the presentation to another program, to a document, to a specific slide of to a website |
| clip art | refers to any picture of art image that you add to enhance your presentation. This can be done by pulling down the insert menu, selecting "inser picture" then "Clip Art: and then selectiong the picture you would like to add to your presentation. |
| summary slide | creates a bulleted list from the titles of the selected slides. Your can make one by pulling down the Edit menu, pressing "Select All: and clicking on the Summary Slide Button on the Slide Sorter Toolbar. |
| The file you save to disk that contains all the slides, speaker's notes, handouts, etc. | Presentation |
| Any element that appears ona slide, such as clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips. | Object |
| A predesigned model that you can pally to one or all of the background slides in a presentation. | Design template |
| A shortcut that allows you to go from the presentation to another program, to a specific slide. | Hyperlink |
| A slide format that determines the position of the object of a slide. | Slide Layout |
| Displays the slide, outline and notes page view in one window. | Normal view |
| The combined use of more than one media; text, image, sound, video, etc. | Multimedia |
| Any picture or art image that you add to enhance your presentation. | Clip art |
| Located at the top of the screen underneath the title bar. It contains categories, which when clicked on provide pull down menus with more specific related options. | Menu Bar |
| Located below the menu bar, it contains buttons of the most basic functions of powerpoint. | Standard Toolbar |
| Located directly below the standard toolbar it provides easy access to formatting options. | Formatting toolbar |
| Located at the bottom of the screen it appears directly above the status bar. | Drawing toolbar |
| The first slide in a presentation; it has the presenter's name and title of the presentation. | Title slide |
| A display showing a presentation in a certain way. | View |
| Picture buttons located in the left buttom corner of the powerpoint display window; the buttons allow the user to switch views of the presentation while creating/editing. | View buttons |
