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PowerPoint Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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. |