Office 365 PowerPoint Exam

transition

specific animation that is applied as a previous slide is replaced by a new slide while displayed in slide show view or reading view

Stacking Order

the order of objects placed on top of one another

key questions to ask when developing a presentation

--who is my audience -what is the purpose of my presentation -what message do I need to convey -what is the best way to convey the message -where will I deliver the presentation

table style

-a combination of formatting choices for table components based on the theme of the presentation-found in the table styles gallery-have predefined styles for fills, borders, font sizes, and other table attributes-can change the appearance by setting various options on and off

Good Design Principles

-are media-specific and venue-specific

split cells command

-found in the merge group-used to divide a cell into two or more cells. Found on the Table Tools Layout Tab.

merge cells command

-in the merge group-is used to combine two or more cells together. Found on the Table Tools Layout Tab.

apply an animation

-to do this to an object, select the object you want to animate, and display the animation gallery by clicking the animations tab and click more in the animation group

add or delete rows or columns

-use the commands in the rows and columns group

Header/Footer

Data that appears at the top of every page or at the bottom of every page in a document.

Smart Art Quick Styles

Determines how fonts, colors, and effects of the theme are combined and which color, font, and effect is dominant. A Quick Style can be applied to shapes or text. Smart Art types: List, Process, Cycle, Hierarchy, Relationship, Matrix, Pyramid, Picture, Office.com

multimedia

Different types of media including text, video, sound, graphics and animations.

Slide Sorter View

Displays thumbnails of presentation full screen to an audience as an electronic presentation.

Press ______ to erase notes or drawings you have added to a slide.

E

At any time during a presentation press ______ to see a list of slide show controls.

F1

Vector Graphics

Graphics that use points, lines, curves, and shapes based on mathematical equations to represent images. The advantage of vector files is that they retain perfect clarity when edited or resized because the computer simply recalculates the math used to create the image. Vector files also use a smaller amount of storage space compared to their pixel-based counterparts such as photographs.

What views are necessary when creating a section?

Normal view or Slide Sorter view

How does a serif font differ from a sans serif font?

Serif fonts have small lines at the end of letters; sans serif fonts do not

Resize shape

Shapes can be resized by selecting the Larger or Smaller Commands in the Shapes group on the Format Tab. You can continue clicking the command until you reach the size you want. To change the size of all the shapes at the same time, press & hold Control, & then select each of the shapes to be changed.

focal point

The center of activity or attention on a slide.

.PPTX

The extension for a PowerPoint Presentation.

.PPSX

The extension for a PowerPoint Show.

background

The portion of a picture can be removed because it is not desired in the picture.

foreground

The portion of the picture that is kept when removing the background of a picture.

Text Effects

This option makes letters stand out with options such as embossing, engraving, and shadowing.

copyright infringement

When a right held by the copyright owner is used without permission.

gradient fill

a blend of two or more colors or shades that change from one color to another.

Textbox

a shape object that provides space for text, to a slide.

WordArt

a tool that allows you to create stylized text by adding special effects, color, shadow, gradient, & 3D appearance. Create WordArt: Click WordArt in the Text group on the Insert Tab. When the gallery opens, choose a style and type the text in the Word Art placeholder. You can convert existing text to WordArt by selecting the text to convert, clicking More in the WordArt Styles Group on the Format tab, and then select the desired style from the WordArt Gallery. Format Word Art: Use text fill, text outline, & text effects options in the WordArt Styles group on the Format Tab.

morph

a transition that creates a cinematic motion by seamlessly animating between two slides. It can create motion, formatting, zoom in or out, or change one shape into another. Morph can be used to create entrance, emphasis, exit, and a motion path animations. It can also be used to animate words; create 3D rotations, zoom in, scroll, flip and crop images. You can use the Effect options to control how the transition takes place.

Lock Drawing Mode

enables the creation of multiple shapes of the same type without selecting the shape each time.

7x7 Guideline

guidelines that suggest you use no more than 7 words per line and 7 lines per slide.

speaker notes

information added to a slide that is not visible to the audience but can be used to prompt the presenter. You can add them using the Notes pane or Notes Page View. If you have a lot of notes to add, use the Notes Page View. You can view the notes in Presenter View.

Alignment

means that there is organized placement of titles and body text as well as other objects on the slide

The default PowerPoint view is ____ view.

normal

status bar

Located at the bottom of the screen in Normal view, this contains the slide number, spelling check, Notes, and Comments buttons, and options that control the view of your presentation.

Transparency

Visibility of the fill. 100% transparency, the fill is clear.

Tables

A grid of columns and rows that organizes data.

data series

A group of related data points

Smart Guides

A guide that displays when an object is moved that helps align objects in relation to other objects.

Chart Title

A heading that describes the chart information

Thumbnail

A miniature view of a slide that appears in the Slides pane and Slide Sorter view

annotation

A note or drawing added to a slide during a presentation.

Sections

A part of a document that contains its own page format settings, such as those for margins, columns, and orientations.

Sharpening

A technique that enhances the edges of the content in a picture to make the boundaries more prominent.

Storyboard

A visual plan for a presentation that helps map out the direction of a presentation.

What is the keyboard shortcut for opening the selection pane in PowerPoint?

Alt + F10

animation

An action used to draw interest to an object in a presentation; a movement that controls the entrance, emphasis, exit and/or paths of objects in a slide show.

Creative Commons License

Authors specify which rights they reserve and which rights they waive. Bing's online images comply with the Creative Commons license system.

How to insert a table on a slide without a content placeholder

Click the Insert Tab, and then click Table in the Tables Group. Drag over the grid to highlight the number of rows and columns you want. A live preview of the table displays on the slide.

How to create a table in PowerPoint

Click the Insert Table icon in the content placeholder. In the Insert Table dialog box, enter the number of columns and rows you want in the table, and then click ok. The inserted table will fill the width of the placeholder.

texture fill

Inserts a texture such as canvas, denim, marble, or cork into a shape.

vertex

Point where a curve ends or the point where two line segments meet in a freeform shape.

Normal view

PowerPoint's default view, where the pane on the left displays the slide thumbnails. The large Slide pane on the right is the main workspace & displays the current slide. The pane at the bottom is the Notes pane, where you add speaker notes.

Slide Layout

Predefined slide format that determines the position of objects on the slide.

Brightness

Refers to the lightness or darkness of a picture

Cropping

Removing a part of an image

Narration

Spoken commentary that is added to a presentation.

Animations can be viewed in the Preview group, in the Reading View and in Slide Show view. T/F

True

Adding/removing table rows/columns

Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, in the Table group, click Select, and then click Select Column or Select Row. Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, in the Rows & Columns group, click the arrow under Delete.

Compress Pictures

Use the compress pictures feature on the Picture Tools Format Tab to reduce the file size of the image, or all images at once, to reduce the file size of the presentation. Enables you to reduce the sizes by permanently deleting any cropped areas of a selected picture and by changing the resolutions of pictures. The JPEG image file is a common lossy format. Lossy compression reduces a file by permanently eliminating certain data, especially redundant data. Alternatively, with lossless compression, data that were originally in the file remain after the file is uncompressed. All compressed data are completely restored. The Graphics Interchange File (GIF) image format provides lossless compression.

Outline View

Use this view when you want to enter text into your presentation using an outline rather than entering the text in the placeholder on the slide. This view can be accessed using the View Tab.