PowerPoint Vocabulary

The view that allows you to run your presentation and preview how it will look.

• Slide Layout
• Slide
• Normal View
• Slide Show

Controls the formatting for all the slides in a presentation

• Slide Layout
• Normal View
• Slide Sorter
• Slide Master

Feature that lets you create a show from scratch, using whatever layout, format, colors, and styles you prefer.

• Blank Presentation
• Background
• SmartArt
• Slide Master

Empty boxes that appear on a new slide that reserve a space for the type of information you want to insert

• Slide Master
• Slide Sorter
• Placeholders
• Slide

Each slide should have a maximum of 7 lines and 7 words on each line.

• Effects
• Multimedia
• Bullets
• Rule of 7's

Allows the user to create notes to be used with the presentation of each slide

• Title Slide
• Slide
• Normal View
• Notes Page

Composed of 3 working areas: Thumbnails Pane (left); Slide Pane (Large view of current slide on the right); and Notes Pane (bottom).

• Slide View
• Outline View
• Notes Page
• Normal View

A predefined slide format that determines the position of the objects on the slide

• Slide Show
• Slide Sorter
• Slide Master
• Slide Layout

Way of printing the PowerPoint so that multiple slides appear on each page.

• Background
• Effects
• Handouts
• Bullets

Any element that appears on a PowerPoint slide, such as an image, text, drawings, charts, sounds, Flash objects, WordArt, SmartArt, photo album, and video clips.

• Slide
• Effects
• Object
• Bullets