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| Presentation | empty objects on a new slide that reserve a space for the type of information you want to insert. |
| Design template | 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. |
| outline view | view displays the text of the slide with no other features |
| blank presentation | feature that lets you create a show ffrom scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer |
| Hyperlink | A shortcut that allows you to go from the presentation to another program, to a specific slide. |
| Multimedia | The combined use of more than one media; text, image, sound, video, etc. |
| Standard Toolbar | Located below the menu bar, it contains buttons of the most basic functions of powerpoint. |
| Formatting toolbar | Located directly below the standard toolbar it provides easy access to formatting options. |
| Title slide | The first slide in a presentation; it has the presenter's name and title of the presentation. |
| View | A display showing a presentation in a certain way. |
| View buttons | 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. |
| 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. |
| effects | the formatting features that move the text on and off of the single slides |
| transition | an effect that determines how one slide is removed from the screen and how the next appears. |
| auto layout menu | the menu containing ready'made placeholders for titiles, text, and objects such as clip art, graphs, and charts |
| Normal view | Displays the slide, outline and notes page view in one window. |
| Menu Bar | 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. |