4 PowerPoint

Theme

A PowerPoint theme includes a set of colors designed to work well together, a set of fonts (one for headings and one for body text), special effects that can be applied to objects such as pictures or shapes, and often a graphic background.

Footer

A footer is an area at the bottom of a slide in which you can enter a date, slide number, or other information.

Header

A header is repeated text, much like a footer, except it appears at the top of each printed page.

Layout masters

Each slide master has a set of layout masters that determine the number, type, and position of the placeholders on a particular type of slide.

Font theme

Each theme supplies a combination of two fonts to be applied to headings and body. Collectively these two fonts are called a font theme. A font theme may have two different fonts—one for headings and one for body text—or the same font for both. In the following exercise, you will choose a different font theme for a presentation.

Element (in Master)

Focus on an element of your PowerPoint.

Live preview

PowerPoint makes it easy to see how a theme will look on your slides by offering a live preview: As you move the mouse pointer over each theme in the gallery, that theme's formats display on the current slide.

Slide Layout Gallery

Slide Layout Gallery lets you see different layouts to choose from

Slide Master View

Slide Master View allows you to make changes to all of your slides at the same time.

Layout

Slide layouts control the position of text and objects on an individual slide.

Slide master

The slide master for a presentation stores information on the current theme, layout of placeholders, bullet characters, and other formats that affect all slides in a presentation.

Target

The target is the page, file, or slide that opens when you click a link.

Theme Background

Theme Background is the background of what your chosen theme will look like.

Sections

To organize a long presentation, you can create sections, which are dividers that group slides into logical clusters, as folders organize groups of related papers.

Variants

Variants are alternate designs for each theme.

Hyperlinks

You can set up hyperlinks (clickable shortcuts) on slides that allow you to jump to a specific slide in the presentation or to external content.