PowerPoint Section 1 Vocabulary Review

A box with a dotted line that is added to a slide or slide layout to mark where an object or text will go. Commonly used for text and prompt the user with the message Click to add text.

• Placeholder

• text box

• slide master

• view

A customizable slide whose layout, formatting, and organization is automatically applied to each new slide created in a presentation.

• slide layout

• text box

• template

• slide master

Pre-built and customizable slide templates that contain placeholder boxes for slide objects, such as titles, graphics, or text. These include formatting and positioning of objects on the slide template.

• slide layout

• text box

• slide master

• placeholder

A collection of diagrams and images that can be added to Word documents or PowerPoint slides in order to enhance the visual appeal of the information being presented.

• slide layout

• animation

• smart art

• transition

Visual effects for when and how a PowerPoint presentation moves from one slide to the next.

• slide layout

• animation

• smart art

• transition

Allows you to see a miniature of each slide it is a great view of your presentation as a whole, but it also lets you rearrange and hide your slides easily

• slide show view

• slide sorter view

• normal view

• reading view

The editing mode where you'll work most frequently to create your slides. Displays slide thumbnails on the left, a large window showing the current slide, and a section below the current slide where you can type your speaker notes for that slide.

• slide show view

• slide sorter view

• normal view

• reading view

Occupies the full computer screen, exactly the way your presentation will look on a big screen when your audience sees it. You can see how your graphics, timings, movies, animated effects, and transition effects will look during the actual presentation.

• slide show view

• slide sorter view

• normal view

• reading view

A view of the presentation suitable to be printed and distributed to the audience.

• slide show view

• slide sorter view

• normal view

• handouts

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

• Access

• Excel

• PowerPoint

• Word