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PowerPoint Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Action Buttons | A button you can click to take you to a different slid, a file, a website, sound, etc. |
Animation | The movement of text, graphics, or other objects within a slide. Animation will vary the way in which objects on a slide appear, the order of appearance, and how and when objects disappear. |
Backgrounds | The underlying color of a slide. |
Blank Presentation | Feature that lets you create a show from scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer. |
Bullets | marks, usually round or square dot, used to emphasize or distinguish items in a list. Bullets are common in PowerPoints. |
Clip Art | Clip art refers to any picture or art image that you add to improve your presentation. This can be done by pulling down the insert menu, selecting "insert picture" then "Clip Art" and then selecting the picture you would like to add. |
Design Template | a pre-designed background and format that you can apply to one or all of the background slides of the presentation. |
Slide View | view displays a single slides and allows the user to insert clip, change the backgrounds, edit transitions, effects and add animations. |
Summary Slide | This slide creates a bulleted list from the titles of the selected slides. You can make one by pulling down the Edit menu, pressing "Select All" and clicking on the summary slide button on the slide sorter toolbar. |
Title slide | the first slide in a presentation; slide indicating the title of the presentation and the presenters name. |
Transitions | the effects that move one slide off the screen and the next slide on during the show. |
View Buttons | Picture buttons located in the left bottom corner of the PowerPoint display window; the buttons allow the user to switch views of the presentation while creating/editing. |
Multimedia | combined use of more than one media, text, image, sound, video, etc. |
Notes Page | allows the user to create notes to be used with the presentation of each slide. |
Outline View | view displays the text of a slide with no other features- This is a good place to make a Wordle! |
Placeholders | empty boxes that appear on a new slide the reserve space for the type of information you want to insert. |
PowerPoint | a software program that creates professional looking multimedia presentations. |
Slide | a single page of a presentation in a slide show. |
Slide Layout | A predefined slide format that determines the position of the objects on the slide. You can access 24 different slide layouts by pulling down the Format menu, clicking "slide layout" and then choosing one that best suits your needs. |
Slide Master | controls the formatting for in the slides in a presentation. |
Slide Show | the view that allows you to run your presentation and preview how it will look. |
Slide Sorter | the view that displays miniature versions of the slides so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging. |