PowerPoint Vocabulary

The way all of the elements are arranged on the slide. Default slide layout for first slide is “Title slide” and after that it is “Title and Content.”

• Slide Layout

• Slide Master

• Slide Notes

• Slideshow

The view that you present your slideshow in.

• Slide Layout

• Slide Master

• Slide Notes

• Slideshow

Where you can change colors, fonts, bullets, etc. for a presentation and have it apply to the entire presentation.

• Slide Layout

• Slide Master

• Slide Notes

• Slideshow

This is the area at the bottom of the screen where you type in notes to be used in your presentation. Will not show in Slide Show view.

• Slide Layout

• Slide Master

• Slide Notes

• Slideshow

A text entry that performs the same functions as an action button when clicked on. Usually used to go to the web.

• Action Button

• Hyperlink

• Slide Design

• Automatic Timing

A button or picture that when clicked on (or moused over) moves to somewhere else in the presentation, another document, or a website.

• Action Button

• Hyperlink

• Slide Design

• Automatic Timing

A collection of the colors, fonts, background design used in the presentation.

• Action Button

• Hyperlink

• Slide Design

• Automatic Timing

So the presentation will run automatically without clicking to advance slides or animations.

• Action Button

• Hyperlink

• Slide Design

• Automatic Timing

The way each slide comes into & leaves the slide show.

• Animation

• Transition

• Slide Sorter

• Handouts

This view shows miniature slides…slides can be rearranged easily in this view.

• Animation

• Transition

• Slide Sorter

• Handouts