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Computer Powerpoint
Powerpoint Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Normal View | The default View in which you create and edit slides |
| Notes Pane | The area of the PowerPoint window in Normal View in which you can key speaker notes or additional content |
| Outline Tab | The area of the PowerPoint window in Normal view in which you can edit view etc. |
| Presentation | a visual representation of something |
| Slide | an individual page in a PowerPoint file that can contain text, graphics, video, audio, and animation |
| Slide Tab | a thumbnail, or miniature view of the slides |
| Thumbnail | A tiny version of a slide |
| Blank | The slide layout that has no placeholders |
| Pace Holder | A region of a slide, or a location in an outline reserved for inserting text or graphics |
| Slide Layout | The arrangement of placeholders on a slide |
| Title and Content | the slide layout that has only a title placeholder |
| Title Slide | A presentation should begin with this. Including the presentation title, presenter name, and other needed info |
| Theme | A preset collection of design elements including fonts colors and other effects |
| Slideshow | The view that allows you to run your presentation and preview how it will look |
| Handouts | a print option that allows you to choose the number of slides displayed per page and places a thumbnail, or small picture, of each slide of page |
| Shape | The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance |
| Text Box | Container for text that can be placed and formatted randomly |
| Align | place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight |
| Distribute | to arrange in a systematic order |
| Reuse Slide Pane | a task pane that contains slides from a saved presentation that you can insert in the current presentations |
| Slide master | the template that provides the basic organization, formatting, and color schemes for the slides in a particular presentation |
| Slide master view | the view in which you can modify the slide master and related layouts |
| Audio | sound effects added to a slide |
| Motion clip | animated clip art added to a slide |
| Video | a recording of both the video and audio components |
| Slide timings | the preset amount of time between slides as they advance automatically during a slide show |
| Loop | To play a music clip or slide show continuously from beginning to end |
| Animation effects | an effects that adds movement to slide elements |
| Emphasis | intensity or forcefulness of expression |
| Entrance | animation effects that occur when an element enters a slide |
| Exit | animation effects that occur when an element leaves a slide |
| Motion Path | animation effects that allow an element to move across or around the surface of a slide |
| Handout master | the master view for the audience, handouts; includes placeholders for the slides, a header and footer, and the date and slide number |
| Handout master view | the view in which you can add header or footer text, a date, and page numbers to audience handouts |
| Embedded Workbook Object | data from an Excel worksheet pasted on a PowerPoint slide and edited with Excel features |
| Summary Slide | a Title and Content slide that lists the title text of selected slides |
| Action Button | a shape that is programmed to perform a specific action, such as running an application or jumping to a specific slide |
| Hyperlink | a link from a hypertext file to another location or file |
| Notes page | Printouts that contain the slide image in the top half of the page and the speaker's notes in the lower half of the page |
| Speaker notes | information added to a slide that is not visible to the audience but can be used to prompt the presented |