Term | Definition |
accessible | Content that can be viewed by a wide variety of computer users, including those who may have disabilities that require them to use adaptive technologies such as screen reading programs. |
comment | A note you insert on a slide while reviewing |
encrypting | The process of transforming data into non-readable form for security purposes |
Mark as Final | A setting that prevents changes from being made to a presentation unless the user chooses to acknowledge the warning and edit it anyway; does not provide security |
markup | The changes identified between two versions of a presentation when using Compare |
null string | Blank, with no characters or spaces |
OpenDocument | A file format that most word processing programs support, including the free OpenOffice suite |
password | A word or phrase that you must type for access to an encrypted file |
PDF | Page Description Language, one of the page layout formats to which PowerPoint can export; requires Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to read |
picture presentation | A presentation that consists of a series pf full-screen graphics of slide content, placed on blank slide backgrounds |
platform-independent | Able to be used on a variety of operating systems |
PowerPoint Show | A presentation that opens by default in a Slide Show view |
Rich Text Format (rtf) | A text file format that most word processing programs can open and save as |
Windows Movie Video (wmv) | The format that PowerPoint saves to when creating videos from presentation files |
XPS | One of the page description languages that PowerPoint can output to; requires an XPS Viewer utility to view; this utility comes with Windows Vista and higher and can be downloaded free from Microsoft for other Windows versions |
XPS Viewer | A utility that comes free with Windows Vista and later versions that opens an XPS file |