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PowerPoint Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active Slide | The slide currently selected or displayed. |
| advance Slide Timing | A setting that controls the amount of time a slide displays on the screen. |
| Aspect Ratio | The ratio of width to height in a screen or other output device. |
| Clip Art | Generic, reusable drawings. |
| Crop | Remove a portion of a picture that you don't want. |
| Destination | The location in which you place an object that was originally in another location. |
| Footer | An area at the bottom of a slide in which you can enter a date, slide number, or other information. |
| Format Painter | A tool that lets you copy text formatting from one text selection and apply it to any other text in the presentation. |
| Grayscale | A way of displaying the current slide so that you can see how it will appear when printed on a black and white printer. |
| Gridlines | A regular grid of dotted lines displayed on a slide to help arrange objects. |
| Group | To combine multiple shapes or other objects into a collective unit that can be controlled as a single object. |
| Guides | Non-printing vertical and horizontal lines you can enter a date or other information that repeats for each page. |
| Handouts | Printed copies of the presentation. |
| Header | An area at the top of a slide in which you can enter a date or other information that repeats for each page. |
| Keyword | A descriptive word attached to an image, used for searching and indexing the image library. |
| Landscape Orientation | A slide or printout that is wider than it is tall. |
| Normal View | PowerPoint’s default view that displays the Slide pane and the Thumbnail pane. |
| Photo Album | A special type of presentation in which the main point is to display photos. |
| Picture Bullet | A graphic specifically designed to be used as a bullet character. |
| Placeholders | Designated areas (boxes) in PowerPoint layouts that can be used to easily insert text, graphics, or multimedia objects. |
| Portrait Orientation | A slide or printout that is taller than it is wide. |
| Presentation Properties | Categories of information about a presentation. |
| Resolution | The number of dots or pixels per linear unit of output. For example, a computer monitor’s resolution is usually 72 pixels per inch. |
| Rotate | Turn an object on a central axis to a new orientation |
| Sample | Pick up a color from an object or slide background. |
| Scale | Specify a percentage of original size to enlarge or reduce the size of an object. |
| Shape Effects | Special effects such as glow, shadow, 3D rotation, and soft edges applied to drawn shapes. |
| Shape styles | Preset combinations of shape effects that can be applied as a single formatting action |
| Slide Layouts | Prearranged sets of placeholders for various types of slide content |
| Slide Sorter View | A view that shows thumbnails of each slide |
| SmartArt | Professionally designed graphics such as lists, processes, or hierarchical displays |
| SmartArt Style | The shading and texture effects on the shapes used in the diagram |
| Snap | To change position to align precisely with a grid-line. |
| Source | The original location of an object. |
| Stack | To overlap objects, and control the order in which overlapping objects appear |
| Storyboard | A series of drawings used to illustrate the sequence of action or outline of a presentation. |
| Symbol | A typographical character that is neither a letter nor a number. Some symbols can be typed on a keyboard, and others must be inserted. |
| Text Box | A non-placeholder container for text that you can position anywhere on a slide. |
| Theme | Formatting feature that applies a background, colors, fonts, and effects to all slides in a presentation. |
| Thumbnail | A small version of the slide |
| Transitions | The visual effects used when one slide moves off of the screen and another moves onto the screen. |
| WordArt | Text that is formatted with graphical effects. |