Microsoft PowerPoint Vocabulary

Animation

• to make an object on a slide enter, emphasize, or exit the slide

• to make an object clickable thus opening an email, a document, or sending the clicker to a new slide or web page

• Shows a smaller image of all the slides in a grid-like way. This view makes it easier to rearrange the slides in a presentation.

• a cool visual effect that happens when a presentation moves from one slide to the next slide.

Autocorrect

• At the very top of the window, this toolbar contains commonly used action buttons like quick print, save and undo, and can be customized by the user to include more buttons

• to continuously play a song, video or slideshow over and over again. It repeats automatically.

• Checks your spelling and grammar automatically

• Anything on a slide like text, an image, a chart, SmartArt, a table, and audio or video file, WordArt…

Backstage

• A type of file that can be opened for free on any device that allows reading privileges, but not editing privileges.

• The File tab - where you can do things with your file like, share, print or save and protect it.

• information located at the bottom of each slide or page (like the author name, the page number, the date).

• The horizontal space at the top of the window that organizes commands in tabs, and then groups the commands by topic. It’s where all of your tabs and menus are.

Bullet Points

• the length of time something lasts

• a list with dots next to each informational item

• to make items on a slideshow or document shades of gray, no color

• a feature in Microsoft Office that allows the user to see what formatting changes would look like without actually selecting a formatting choice, but just by hovering your cursor over the choice

Crop

• information located at the top of each slide or page (like the author name, the page number, the date…)

• standalone touch screen type monitor that usually plays an interactive or basic slideshow on a loop

• Allows you to alter (change) an object, such as an image by hiding, deleting or cutting parts of it.

• Leaving comments on a file for others to read and review

Duration

• the length of time something lasts

• to continuously play a song, video or slideshow over and over again. It repeats automatically.

• Shows a smaller image of all the slides in a grid-like way. This view makes it easier to rearrange the slides in a presentation.

• an on-screen rectangular frame into which you type text

Footer

• information located at the top of each slide or page (like the author name, the page number, the date…)

• Any information at the bottom margin of a slide that is repeated on every slide like a page number or file name.

• a feature in Microsoft Office that allows the user to see what formatting changes would look like without actually selecting a formatting choice, but just by hovering your cursor over the choice

• A tool that allows you to copy animations or formatting easily from one object to another (Format painter)

Grayscale

• to continuously play a song, video or slideshow over and over again. It repeats automatically.

• to make items on a slideshow or document shades of gray; no color.

• The horizontal space at the top of the window that organizes commands in tabs, and then groups the commands by topic. It’s where all of your tabs and menus are.

• to remove part of an image

Gridlines

• the file tab – where you can do things with your file like, share, print or save and protect it

• dotted lines on a slide that intersect to form a grid like pattern that helps you position objects on a slide

• to line up, straighten

• an on-screen rectangular frame into which you type text

Header

• information located at the bottom of each slide or page (like the author name, the page number, the date)

• to make an object clickable thus opening an email, a document, or sending the clicker to a new slide or web page

• Shows a smaller image of all the slides in a grid-like way. This view makes it easier to rearrange the slides in a presentation.

• information located at the top of each slide or page (like the author name, the page number, the date…)