PowerPoint Vocabulary

font theme

a combination of two fonts to be applied to headings and text as a part of a theme

text box

a container that holds text on a slide

template

a pre-designed presentation

slide show

a series of slides displayed in sequence

hyperlink

a shortcut that allows you to go from the presenation to another program, document, specific slide or website

slide

a single page of presentation in a slide show

transitions

a special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show

regions

an area on Earth with common features

object

any element that appears on the PowerPoint slide, clip art, text, drawings, chart, sounds, video clips

landmarks

can be natural or man-made

slide master

controls the formatting for all the slides in a presenation

placeholder

empty object on a new slide that reserves a space for the type of information that you want

WordArt

feature used to turn text into a formatted graphic

natural resources

found in nature and is used by people

bullet list

groups of items or phrases that present related ideas

black slide i

indicates the end of the PowerPoint.

vegetation

plants that grow in an area

timing

the amount of time a slide is on the screen in a presentation

slide layout

the combination of title, text, or content placeholders and the arrangement of the slide

animation

the movement of text, graphics or other objects within a slide.

Power Point

the multimedia presentation software program in Microsoft Office

slide sorter

the view that displays miniature verson of the slides so that you can move and arrange slides easily by dragging

climate

the weather of a place over a long period of time

multimedia

using more than 1 media: text, image, sound, video etc