PowerPoint Vocabulary

A presentation application that helps you create interactive, self-running, or manually controlled displays. It can be used to create slideshows using graphics, text and video.

• PowerPoint

• Slide Show View

• Slide Sorter View

• Slide View

Refers to the way things arranged on a slide, such as titles, bulleted lists, and slide content such as tables, charts, pictures, shapes, and clip art.

• Layout

• Transitions

• Fill Effects

• Presentation Window

The slide show view takes up the full computer screen, like an actual slide show presentation. In this full- screen view, you see your presentation the way your audience will.

• Slide Show View

• Slide Sorter View

• Slide View

• Templates

Shows your slides I thumbnail form. When you are finished creating and editing your presentation, it gives you an overall picture of it --- making it easy to move, add or delete and preview your transition and animation effects.

• Slide Sorter View

• Slide View

• Slide Show View

• Presentation

The main editing view, which you use to write and design your presentation.

• Slide View

• Slide Sorter View

• Slide Show View

• Templates

They are a set of transitional display effect that move from one slide to the next.

• Transitions

• Templates

• Status Bar

• Slides

Are used to add a special visual or sound effect to text or an object.

• Animations

• Background

• Templates

• Fill effects

Are used in presentations to create a more interesting eye-pleasing look. They may include gradients, patterns pictures, solid colors, or textures.

• Background

• Animations

• Templates

• Slides

Can be pre-designed to be applied to a presentation to give it a fully designed professional look.

• Templates

• Tabs

• Fill Effects

• Layout

Each screen that is displayed during a presentation. A presentation is made up of more than one

• Slides

• Templates

• Ribbon

• Theme