PowerPoint Vocabulary

A software package designed to create electronic presentations consisting of a series of separate pages or slides.

• Excel

• PowerPoint

• Word

• Publisher

A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that contain text and images for presenting to an audience.

• Prezi

• Word document

• Excel spreadsheet

• PowerPoint slide show

Motion effects that occur in Slide Show view when you move from one slide to the next during a presentation.

• Slide show

• Transition

• Graphic

• Presentation

Makes your presentation more interesting. Allows shapes to move on the slide.

• transition

• slide sorter

• multimedia

• animation

Graphics, audio, video, text, and animation that make your presentation more interesting.

• transitions

• slide show

• multimedia

• slide sorter

Lets you view and sort the presentation slides to suit your purposes for the presentation.

• slide show

• slide sorter

• multimedia

• PowerPoint design

A design scheme (colors, fonts, and so on) plus some content for a specific purpose.

• multimedia

• hyperlink

• slide sorter

• PowerPoint design template

Allows you to link to another document, slide, or a web address.

• hyperlink

• 7x7 rule

• notes page

• animation

PowerPoint gives you the ability to add notes to your slides—often called speaker notes—to help you deliver or prepare for your presentation.

• Animation

• Transition

• Notes page

• 7x7 rule

Contain formatting, positioning, and placeholders for all of the content that appears on a slide. Placeholders are the containers in layouts that hold.

• Slide layout

• Slide show

• Slide animation

• Slide transition