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| Microsoft Powerpoint | A full-featured presentation app that lets you produce professional-looking presentation files and then deliver them to an audience; also called PowerPoint. |
| presentation | A PowerPoint document that lets you create and deliver a dynamic, professional-looking message to an audience in the form of a slide show. |
| slide show | A term used to describe a PowerPoint presentation. |
| deck | A collection of slides in a presentation, resembling a deck of cards stacked on top of each other, that is used to enhance an oral presentation. |
| menu | A list of related items, including folders, applications, and commands. |
| command | A menu item that performs a specific action, such as saving a file. In Access, an SQL statement that causes an action to be taken. |
| folder | A named location on a storage medium that usually contains related documents. |
| slide | A page in a PowerPoint presentation file on which you insert text, shapes, illustrations, pictures, and media objects such as videos. |
| Title Slide | The first slide in a presentation, usually containing the presentation title and other identifying information, such as the presenter’s or the company’s name; Title Slide is the default layout that appears when you create a new presentation. |
| insertion point | A blinking vertical line that appears when you click in a paragraph, cell or text box; indicating where new text or an object will be inserted. |
| pointer | A small symbol on the screen that becomes different shapes depending on the task you are performing, the application you are using, and the pointer’s location on the screen. |
| scroll bar | Bars on the right edge (vertical scroll bar) and bottom edge (horizontal scroll bar) of a document window that let you view a document that is too large to fit on the screen at once. |
| scroll box | A box in a scroll bar that you can drag, or click above and below, to display different parts of a window. |
| scroll arrow | Small triangular “up” and “down” arrows at each end of a scroll bar that you use to adjust your window view in small increments. |
| status bar | The gray bar at the bottom of Office app windows that shows status information about the currently open document, worksheet, database, or presentation, as well as containing commands for viewing the file in different ways and for changing the zoom percentage |
| ribbon | In many Microsoft app windows, a horizontal strip near the top of the window that contains tabs of grouped commands and buttons. |
| tab | A section of the ribbon or a dialog box that contains a group of related commands and settings |
| group | In Office apps and in Windows, a section of a tab on the ribbon containing related commands |
| Home tab | A tab on the ribbon that contains the more frequently used commands; also called the primary tab. Also calledthe primary tab. |
| active tab | The ribbon tab currently displayed |
| tool tabs | Tabs that appear in addition to the main tabs on the ribbon when you perform certain tasks or work with objects, such as pictures or tables; also called contextual tabs |
| gallery | A collection of choices, often graphical, arranged in a grid or list, that you can browse through before making a selection, such as fonts or templates. |
| Live Preview | An Office feature that shows the results that would occur in your file, such as the effects of formatting options on a document’s appearance, if you clicked the option you are pointing to. |
| ScreenTip | A label that appears when you point to a button or object, that may include the name, purpose, or keyboard shortcut for the object; may also include a link to associated help topics. |
| Dialog Box Launcher | A small arrow in the lower-right corner of some ribbon groups that, when clicked, displays a dialog box or task pane with more options. |
| pane | A section of a window, such as the navigation pane in the File Explorer window or the Slides pane in PowerPoint. |
| Tell Me box | A search box on the ribbon that is used to find a command or access the application Help system. |
| Quick Access Toolbar | A customizable toolbar at the left edge of the title bar that contains buttons for frequently used commands. |
| Mini toolbar | A small toolbar that appears next to text you select using the mouse or when you right-click a document, worksheet, slide, or database cell. |
| shortcut menu | A list of frequently used commands that relate to an object, typically displayed by right-clicking; the commands on a shortcut menu are related to the item you right-clicked. |
| KeyTips | Labels that appear over each tab and command on the ribbon when the ALT key is pressed |
| theme | A predefined, coordinated set of colors, fonts, graphical effects, and other formats that can be applied to documents, spreadsheets, presentations, publications, and Access forms and reports to give them a consistent, professional look. |
| landscape orientation | The position of a page, slide, or worksheet so that the page, slide, or worksheet is wider than it is tall. |
| placeholders | A box that contains a prompt or buttons that you click to add text or graphic objects |
| paragraph | Any text that ends with a paragraph mark symbol (¶); can be a group of words that is many lines long, a single word, or even a blank line, in which case you see a paragraph mark alone on a single line. A paragraph can also contain a picture or other graphic instead of text. |
| level | A position within a structure, such as an outline, that indicates the magnitude of importance. |
| zoom | A viewing feature that lets you display a view of a document so that its contents are either enlarged or shrunk |
| formatting | The enhancement of how content appears on the screen by changes to its font, size, color, or alignment |
| font | A set of letters, numbers, and symbols that all have the same style and appearance. |
| font style | A format that indicates how characters are emphasized, such as bold, underline, and italic |
| font size | The size of characters, measured in units called points. |
| point | A unit of measure used for font size and, in Excel, row height; one point is equal to 1/72nd of an inch. |
| font color | The color of the characters in a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or other file |
| italic | Formatting applied to text to make the characters slant to the right |
| save | To store a file permanently on a storage medium such as a disk, flash drive, or online using a cloud storage service such as OneDrive so you can retrieve it later, or to overwrite the copy of a file that is stored on a disk with the changes made to the file. |
| file | A collection of information stored on your computer, such as a text document, spreadsheet, photo, and song |
| file name | A unique, descriptive name for a file that identifies the file’s content and is assigned to a file when it is saved. Also known as file name |
| backstage view | The view that contains commands that let you manage the file and program settings. |
| bulleted list | A series of paragraphs, each beginning with a bullet character, such as a dot or checkmark |
| multilevel bulleted list | A slide that consists of more than one level of bulleted text |
| demote | In PowerPoint, to create a lower-level item in a bulleted list by changing a higher-level item into the lower-level item |
| promote | To change a lower-level item into a higher-level item in a list or an outline |
| bold | Type of format applied to text that makes the characters appear somewhat thicker and darker than those that are not bold |
| layout | In PowerPoint, the arrangement of placeholders on a slide. |
| layout gallery | In PowerPoint, a collection of slide layouts that define text and content positioning and formatting. |
| custom layout | A PowerPoint feature that lets you create a layout if none of the layouts in the gallery meets your design needs |
| view | In PowerPoint, the mode in which a presentation appears on the screen, such as Normal, Slide Sorter, or Outline view |
| normal view | In PowerPoint, the view in which the selected slide appears enlarged so you can add and manipulate objects on the slide, and thumbnails of the slides in the presentation appear in a pane on the left |
| slide pane | In PowerPoint, the large area in the middle of Normal view that displays the slide you are currently working on |
| slides tab | On the left side of the Normal view in PowerPoint, displays the slides in the presentation as thumbnails. |
| notes pane | An area at the bottom of the PowerPoint window in Normal or Outline view that you can use to type notes to yourself; the notes are not visible in Slide Show view or Reading view. |
| notes button | In PowerPoint, a button on the status bar that opens the Notes pane |
| slide indicator | Box that shows the number and title of the slide you are about to display when you drag the scroll box to the left of the slide pane |
| Insert Picture dialog box | A dialog box that appears when you click the Pictures button and that lets you search for picture files that are stored on your computer or a storage device |
| resizing | Enlarging or reducing the size of a graphic |
| selection rectangle | In Word and PowerPoint, a box that appears around a selected graphic, which include small circles called sizing handles at each corner and middle location and a rotation handle |
| sizing handles | Small squares or circles at the corners of a selected object such as a chart, picture, or shape; dragging a sizing handle resizes the object; also called handle |
| smart guides | A dashed red line that appears as you drag an object to indicate the center or the edge of the object, another object, or the slide itself to help you position the object. |
| rotate handle | A small circular arrow at the top of a selected object that you can drag to turn the selected object in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; also called a rotation handle |
| drag and drop | The technique of moving an item by selecting it and then dragging the selection to a new location; can be used to move an Excel cell or range, a PowerPoint thumbnail, or a Word text or graphic |
| notes page | In PowerPoint, a view in which a reduced image of the slide appears in the top half of the window and notes for that slide appear in the bottom half |
| document properties | Details about a file such as the project author, title, and subject |
| standard properties | Document properties that are associated with all Microsoft Office files and include author, title, and subject |
| automatically updated properties | A file system or document property, such as the date you create or change a file, and statistics, such as the file size |
| normal view | The Excel view that shows the contents of the sheet but not a preview of how the sheet will look when printed |
| slide show view | In PowerPoint, a view that displays slides so that they fill the screen |
| slide sorter view | In PowerPoint, a view in which all the slides in the presentation are displayed as thumbnails in the window |
| reading view | In PowerPoint, a view without editing tools used primarily to preview your slides, but the slides do not fill the entire screen |
