BIM PowerPoint Ch. 1 Vocabulary

PowerPoint’s default view that displays the Slide pane and the Thumbnail pane.

• Slide layout

• Normal view

• Presentation

• Active slide

Designated areas in PowerPoint layouts that can be used to easily insert text or graphics

• Destination

• Storyboard

• Placeholders

• Theme

A set of slides or handouts that contains information you want to convey to an audience.

• Storyboard

• Theme

• Presentation

• Handouts

A series of drawings used to illustrate the sequence of action or outline of a presentation.

• Storyboard

• Theme

• Presentation

• Header

Formatting feature that applies a background, colors, fonts, and effects to all slides

• Format Painter

• Crop

• Source

• Theme

The slide currently selected or displayed.

• Portrait orientation

• Properties

• Active slide

• Scale

Printed copies of the presentation for the audience to refer to during & after the slide show.

• Slide layout

• Aspect ration

• Active slide

• Handouts

Prearranged sets of placeholders for various types of slide content.

• Active slide

• Handouts

• Slide layout

• Aspect ratio

The ratio of width to height in a screen or other output device.

• Active slide

• Handouts

• Slide layout

• Aspect ratio

An area at the bottom of a slide in which you can enter a date, slide number, etc.

• Header

• Footer

• Source

• Transitions