PowerPoint
PowerPoint vocabulary and definitions
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- placeholder
- box that contain title text, body text, pictures, or other objects.
- outline and slide pane
- area that can display either an outline or thumbnails of the presentation
- design template
- custom design that you apply to a presentation to give a uniform color scheme and "look"
- presentation tips
- moderate pace, pauses, speak to audience, avoid disturbances
- animation scheme
- preset visual effects that control how text appears on the screen during a slide show
- slide
- area where you create, edit, and display presentation
- print options
- slides, handouts, note pages, outline view
- audience
- group to whom you are presenting
- print option colors
- color, grayscale, pure black and white
- KISS
- Keep It Simple Stupid
- bullet
- small dot, square, or other symbol placed to the left of each item in a list or series to add emphasis and readability
- formatting
- appearance of text
- tips for designing presentation
- have a title slide, consistent color scheme, avoid long lines of text, avoid small text, use bullets, use graphics that relate, keep charts simple, final slide a summary
- task pane
- area that appears at appropriate times on the right side of the PowerPoint window, displaying a list of commands
- slide transition
- visual effects that you can apply to enhance the way the screen changes during a slide show as you move from one slide to another
- PowerPoint
- easy-to-use presentation graphics program you can use to create professional quality slide presentations
- thumbnails
- miniature version of a graphic image
- annotation pen
- pointer that you can use to draw on the screen during a presentation
- slide layout
- arrangement of text and/or object placeholders that can be applied to a new or existing slide
- views
- normal, slide sorter, and slide show