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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Presentation | The file you save to disk that contains all the slides, speaker's notes, handouts, etc |
| Object | Any element that appears ona slide, such as clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and video clips. |
