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| Applies backgrounds, font styles and font colors to all slides | theme |
| Used to position and hold content such as text, tables, videos and pictures | Placeholder |
| Animated effects that control how each slide replaces the previous one. | Transition |
| Applied to text and objects so they can be revealed or appear and disappear on the slide when you click the mouse button. | Animation |
| Used to produce interactive slide shows to enhance the presentation of information to an audience. | Presentation Software |
| Used to define the structure, positioning and formatting for all of the content that appears on a slide. | Slide Layout |
| Contains the default placeholder styles and arrangement, slide background, text styles, list options and shapes for all slides contained in a presentation, regardless of which slide layout is used. | Slide Master |
| Determines the default placeholder styles and arrangement, slide background, text styles, list options and shapes for that particular slide layout. | Slide layout master |