PowerPoint Definitions

miniature views of the individual slides displayed on the left of the screen

• Slides Tab
• Thumbnails
• Notes Pane
• Normal View
• Venus

hidden at the bottom of the window, to type notes to yourself or remarks to share with your audience

• Slide Pane
• Status Bar
• Notes Pane
• Normal View

appears around a selected graphic and has small circles at each corner and middle location

• Smart Guide
• Selection Rectangle
• Drag and Drop
• Slide Transition

small circles, move handles, to resize a graphic

• Smart Guide
• Drag and Drop
• Document Properties
• Sizing Handles

layout guides, displayed as dashed lines, that help the user align slide elements vertically and horizontally

• Document Properties
• Slide Transition
• Placeholders
• Smart Guides

sliding or dragging a thumbnail slide and dropping it into a new location

• Slide Transition
• Drag and Drop
• Variant
• Demoting

a special effect used to progress from one slide to the next in a slide show

• Variant
• Placeholders
• Slide Transition
• Smart Guides

the details about a file such as the project, author, title and subject

• Document Properties
• Smart Guides
• Status Bar
• Normal View

a specific design with coordinating colors, fonts, and special effects such as shadows and reflections

• Document Theme
• Variant
• Document Properties
• Point

an alternate design of a theme

• Document Theme
• Variant
• Normal View
• Document Properties