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| Accessibility | The quality of making a presentation easier for everyone to gain access to, read, and hear for those who are vision-impaired. |
| Alignment | The act of positioning two or more objects to have the same top, bottom, left, or right edge on a slide. |
| Alternative Text (Alt Text) | Text added to objects such as images, shapes, icons, or tables. This text is read to vision-impaired users through the use of a screen reader |
| Animation | A movement added to objects and text in a presentation. |
| Annotation | The act of drawing an object onto a slide while in Slide Show view. |
| Arrange | A tool that allows one to decide which objects should cover other objects on a slide. |
| Banded Rows | A table setting where every other row or every other column has the same color formatting. |
| Bulleted List | A list of points with a small character or image that appears before the text. The list usually represents points in no particular order. |
| Cameo | A feature that embeds a live camera feed into a presentation. |
| Comment | A note added to a slide or slide object as part of the collaboration process on a presentation. An @Mention comment directs the comment to a specific person within the organization through an email notification. |
| Compatibility Issue | An issue in which a feature in a PowerPoint 365 Apps presentation is not supported in one or more earlier versions of PowerPoint. |
| Crop | A tool that removes excess areas of an image. |
| Chart | A visual representation of data. |
| Digital Ink | A group of tools, including pens and pencils, used to draw text and/or shapes onto slides. It is commonly used to emphasize something important on a slide. |
| Effect Options | Settings used to adjust a direction or other aspect of an animation or transition |
| Embedding Font | The act of including font files inside a presentation file to ensure that others can view and use the fonts in the presentation even if their device does not have those fonts. |
| File Properties | Metadata such as tags, categories, authors, and keywords, all with the purpose of describing a file. |
| Footer | A section of text at the bottom of a slide, notes page, or handout that is used to include important information about your presentation like the title, date, page number, or author. |
| Grayscale | A method of viewing and/or printing a presentation in black, white, and shades of gray. |
| Gridline | A tool used to line up objects on a slide. |
| Group | The act of taking two or more objects and setting them up to move as one object |
| Guide | A background horizontal and vertical line used to line up objects on a slide. |
| Handout | A printout of a presentation used to give the audience a copy of the presentation. |
| Handout Master | A tab in PowerPoint used to edit the layout and appearance of a presentation's handout. |
| Header | A section of text at the top of a notes page or handout that is used to include important information like the title, date, page number, or author. |
| Hyperlink | A link to a webpage, a place in a presentation, a different file, or an email address. |
| Kiosk | A mechanism for presenting a slide show without a presenter. These often loop until stopped. |
| Legend | An object added to a chart to show, for each series, which color represents that series. |
| Loop | A setting in which audio, a video clip, or an entire presentation plays continuously until it is stopped. |
| Mark as Final | A feature in which a presentation is set to open as read-only with the message that the presentation is marked as final. Editing must be enabled in order to edit the presentation. |
| Motion Path | A type of animation in which an object travels the path of a line, circle, or custom path a user draws. |
| Notes Master | A tab in PowerPoint used to add notes to a presentation for the presenter to use while giving a presentation. |
| Notes Page | A page of a printout of a presentation that contains a slide and presenter notes on each page. |
| Numbered List | A list of points with a number or letter to the left of each point. This list usually represents points in a particular orde |
| Outline View | A view in which one can focus on a complete list of slide titles and bulleted text within a presentation. |
| PDF | Portable Document Format (PDF) is a format in which apps like PowerPoint can export to keep the integrity of presentation content. |
| Placeholder | A frame of content used to hold text, tables, images, and media on a slide. |
| Presenter View | A view that provides the presenter with additional features and tools while presenting. Presenter View provides the current slide, a preview of the next slide, notes, and slide navigation. |
| Read-Only | A state in which a presentation is not editable |
| Rehearse with Coach | A feature that allows one to rehearse a presentation while providing real-time feedback and a rehearsal report with tips on how to improve the presentation. |
| Resizing Handles | Dots on the sides and corners of an object that, when moved, help to resize an object. |
| Screen Clipping | A copy of a portion of a screen from an open window on the computer. |
| Screen Recording | A capture of activity one does on a screen. |
| Screenshot | A copy of an entire screen from an open window on the computer. |
| Section | A grouping of slides within a presentation. |
| Section Zoom | A thumbnail, used in Slide Show view, that links to the first slide in a section. |
| Slide Layout | A slide template. |
| Slide Master | A slide that stores information about the theme and layout of all of the slides in a presentation. It controls the colors, fonts, placeholders, and backgrounds of all of the slides |
| Slide Show Recording | The process of capturing a presentation for the purpose of saving, sharing, and/or replaying the presentation at a later time. |
| Table | A grid of cells organized into rows and columns to store information |
| Text Box | A shape added to a slide with the purpose of holding text. |
| Theme | A predefined set of colors, fonts, effects, styles, and background graphics within a presentation. |
| Transition | Action from one slide to another. |
| Trim Video | A setting in which the start and stop times of a video are determined. |
| XPS | A format used to export a presentation while maintaining the integrity of the presentation's content. |
| Slide Show Timing | A set time a slide displays before automatically moving to the next slide in the presentation. |
