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Tone

(or temperature) of a color is a characteristic of lighting in pictures. Measured in kelvin (K). Lower = cool colors like blueish white, higher = warm colors like yellowish to red.

Gradient fill

A blend of two or more colors

Deck

A collection of slides is referred to as a _____ of slides.

Quick Style

A combination of different formats that can be selected from the gallery with the same name and applied to a shape or other objects.

Plain Text Format (.txt)

A file format that retains text without any frmatting. Has no heirarchical structure, so each line of the outline becomes a slide when imported into PowerPoint.

Rich Text Format (.rtf)

A file format you can use to transfer formatted text documents between applications such as word-processing programs and PowerPoint.

Template

A file that includes the formatting elements like a background, a theme with a color scheme and font selections for titles and text boxes, and slide layouts that position content placeholders.

Colors gallery

A gallergy that provides a set of colors with each color assigned to a different element in the theme design.

Background Styles gallery

A gallery containing backgrounds consistent with the selected theme colors.

Fonts gallery

A gallery that pairs a title font and a body font.

Shape

A geometric or non-geometric object used to create an illustration or to highlight information.

Compression

A method applied to data to reduce the amount of space required for file storage.

Selection net or marquee

A selection of multiple objects, is created by dragging a rectangle around all of the object you want to select and ending the selection by releasing the mouse button. All object contained entirely within the net will be selected.

Callout

A shape that can be used to add text, often used in cartooning.

Freeform shape

A shape that can be used to create customized shapes using both curved and straight line segments. It enables you to draw whatever you want, like pencil on paper.

Infographics

A shortened term for information graphics, are visual representations of data or knowledge. Typically use shapes to present complex data or knowledge in an easily understood visual representation.

Hierarchy

A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

Storyboard

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

Adjustment handle

A yellow circle that you can drag to change the shape. Not all shapes have one of these.

Vertex

AKA anchor point, a black. square that controls a curved line segment and indicated where two line segments meet or end.

Presenter View

Accessed from the Monitors group on the Slide Show tab, especially valuable view that lets you deliver a presentation using two monitors simultaneously. One monitor is a projector that delivers the full screen presentation and the other monitor is a laptop or computer that displays the presentation in this view.

PowerPoint Presentation

An electronic slide show that can be edited or delivered in a variety of ways: you can project the slide show on a screen as part of a presentation, run it automatically at a kiosk or from a DVD, display it on the World Wide Web, email it, or create printed handouts. Saved as a .pptx file.

Flow chart

An illustration that shows a sequence to be followed or a plan containing steps.

Text box

An object that provides space for text.

Opaque

At 0% transparency

Clear

At 100% transparency

Softening

Blurring the edges so the boundaries are less prominent.

Sharpening

Brining out the detail by making boundaries of the content more prominent.

Ungrouped

Broken apart, so you can modify or delete the individual pieces.

Lock Drawing Mode

By activating this, you can add several shapes of the same type on your slide without selecting the shape each time.

Sections

Can help you effectively organize and manage slides and other parts of the presentation similarly to tabs in a binder.

Design Tips

Choose design elements appropriate for the audience, keep the design neat and clean, create a focal point that leads the viewer's eyes to the critical information on the slide, use unified design elements for a professional look, choose fonts appropriate for the output of your presentation, don't use underlined text, avoid capital letters, use bold and italics sparingly, avoid leaving one word on a single line, use one space after punctuation in text blocks.

Grid

Contains intersecting lines, which by default are hidden.

Masters

Control the layouts, background designs, and the color combinations for handouts, notes pages, and slides, giving the presentation a consistent appearance. Changing these makes universal style changes that affect every slide in your presentation and the supporting materials.

Bitmap Images

Created by bits or pixels placed on a grid or map. Each pixel contains information about the color to be displayed. Required to have the realism necessary for a photograph. Represent a much more complex range of colors and shades but can become pixelated when they are enlarged. Can be a large file

Normal view

Default PowerPoint workspace. Displays the Ribbon and other common interface components as well as two panes that provide maximum flexibility in working with the presentation.

Theme

Designer-quality look that includes coordinating colors, matching fonts, and effects such as shadows.

Layouts

Determine the position of placeholders in various locations on a slide.

Effects gallery

Displays a full range of special effects that can be applied to all shapes in the presentation.

Slide Sorter View

Displays thumbnails of your presentation slides, which enables you to view multiple slides simultaneously. Helpful when you want to change the order of the slides, or to delete one or more slides. You can set transition effects for multiple slides in this view.

Smart Guides

Displays when you drag an object on your slide to help you quickly align objects in relation to other objects. Includes rulers, a grid, and drawing guides that enable you to complete the aligning process quickly.

Flip

Done horizontally or vertically to get a mirror image of the object.

Artistic effects

Enable you to change the appearance of a picture so that it looks like it was created with a marker, as a pencil sketch or watercolor painting, or using other effects.

Grouping

Enables multiple objects to act or move as though they were a single object.

Poster Frame

Enables you to choose a still frame (or image) from within the video or any image file from your storage devise. This image is displayed on the PowerPoint slide when the video is not playing.

SmartArt

Enables you to create a visual representation of information. You can type or insert the text of your message in one of many existing layouts. The resulting illustration is professional looking an is complemented by the selected theme.

Picture fill

Enables you to create unusual frames for your pictures and can be a fun way to vary the images in your presentation.

Eyedropper

Enables you to match colors used in other slides to create a unified look to your presentation.

Recolor Tool

Enables you to match the image to the color scheme of your presentation without ungrouping the image and changing the color of each shape.

Compress Pictures feature

Enables you to reduce file sizes by permanently deleting any cropped areas of a selected picture and by changing the resolution of pictures.

Merge shapes

Enables you to take individual shapes that you have inserted and merge them together to create one image.

Parallel Construction

Ensures your bullets are in the same grammatical form to help your audience see the connection between your phrases. Gives each bullet an equal level of importance and promotes balance in your message.

Texture fills

Gives access to fills such as canvas, marble, cork, which you can use to fill your object.

Points (pt)

How the width or thickness of a line is measured.

PowerPoint show

If you save the PowerPoint presentation as this with a .ppsx extension, the presentation opens in Slide Show view and you will not see the Normal view PowerPoint interface. Although a .ppsx file cannot be changed while viewing, you can open the file in PowerPoint and edit it.

Vector graphics

Images are typically saved as these, which are math based. Retain perfect clarity when edited or resized due to the fact that the computer simply recalculates the math but are not photorealistic.

Diagram

Infographics used to illustrate concepts and processes.

Cropping

Lets you eliminate unwanted portions of an image, focusing the viewer's attention on the most important part of the graphic.

Brightness

Lightness or darkness

Connectors

Lines with connection points at each end. Stay connected to the shapes or placeholders to which you attach them. Include 3 types: Line, elbow, and curved.

Selection Pane

Lists all objects on the slide and enables you to select, multi-select, show, hide, or change the order of objects on the slide. Incredibly helpful when working with complex images comprised of overlapping objects.

Status bar

Located at the bottom of your screen and can be customized, it contains the slide number, Spell check icon, Notes button, Comments button, and View buttons, It also includes a Zoom slider, the Zoom level button, and the Fit slide to current window button.

Levels of indentation

Make it possible to show hierarchy or relationships between the information on your slides.

Align feature

Makes it simple to line up shapes and objects in several ways. With other objects, or the slide.

Bookmarks

Marks specific locations in a video, making it possible to quickly advance to the part of the video you want to display or to trigger an event in an animation.

Slide

Most basic element of PowerPoint (similar to a page being the most basic element of Microsoft Word).

Animation

Motion that you an apply to text and objects. Helps focus attention on an important point, control the flow of information on a slide, and help you keep the audience's attention.

Rotate

Moves the object around its axis.

Lossless

No data is lost when decompressed.

Guides

Nonprinting, temporary vertical or horizontal lines that you can place on a slide to help you align objects or determine regions of the slide.

Speaker Note

Notes added to PowerPoint presentation slides as a reference for the presenter.

Annotation

Notes or drawings. Can do this to your slides during a presentation using the Pen tool, underlining and/or circling words to all attention to them, etc.

Placeholders

Objects that hold specific content, such as titles, subtitles, images, etc. Determine the position of the objects on the slide.

Infringement of copyright

Occurs anytime a right help by the copyright owner is used without the permission of the owner.

Table

Organizes information in columns and rows.

Outline

Organizes text using a hierarchy with main points and subpoints to indicate the levels of importance of the text.

Media Objects

Pictures, online pictures, audio, and/or video. Is important to PowerPoint since PP is a visual medium.

Shape Fill gallery

Provides color choices that match the theme colors or color choices based on standard colors.

Copyright

Provides legal protection to a written or artistic work, including pictures, drawings, poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture, It gives the author of a work the exclusive right to the use and duplication of that work. Does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed.

Multimedia

Refers to multiple forms of media, such as graphics, sound, animation, and video, that are used to entertain or inform an audience.

Save Target As

Saves audio files from the internet.

Ungrouping

Separates an object into individual shapes.

Lines

Shapes that can be used to point to information, to connect shapes on a slide, or to divide a slide into sections.

Thumbnails

Slide miniatures representing the location of the slides.

Codec

Software which uses algorithms to compress or code videos, and then decompress or decode the videos for playback.

Lossy

Some data may be lost when decompressed

Active Voice

Subject of the phrase performs an action expressed in the verb. Use this voice in a presentation.

Background

The area or scenery behind the main object of contemplation, especially when percieved as a framework for it.

Slide Show

The arranged slides displayed onscreen for an audience, often referred to as a presentation.

Public domain

The author is giving everyone the right to freely reproduce and distribute the material, thereby making the work owned by the public at large. Work may enter this when copyright expires.

Fair use

The conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties

Link

The connection between the presentation to another location such as a storage device or website.

Contrast

The difference between the darkest area (black level) and the lightest area (white level) of an image.

Text pane

The fly-out pane that allows you to type information for a SmartArt diagram.

Saturation

The intensity of the colors in an image. More = more vivid colors, less = closer to grayscale.

Slide pane

The main workspace and displays the current selected slide.

Stacking order

The order of layers of shapes

Slides pane

The pane on the left side of the screen, shows the slide deck with thumbnails.

Foreground

The part of a view that is nearest to the observer, especially in a picture or photograph.

Aspect Ratio

The ratio of an object's width to its height

Passive Voice

The subject is acted upon.

Embed

To insert an object created with one program into a file created with a different program.

Slide master

Top slide in a hierarchy of slides based on the master. As you modify this, elements in the slide layouts related to it are also modified to maintain consistency.

7 x 7 Guideline

Use no more than seven words per line and seven lines per slide. There should be limited exceptions.

Distribute

Use these options to assign an equal amount of space between the shapes.

Reading View

Use to view the slide show full screen, one slide at a time. Animations and transitions are active,, a title bar, including Minimize, Maximize/Restore Down, and Close buttons, is visible, as well as a. modified status bar which includes navigation buttons for moving to the next or previous slide, as well as a menu for accomplishing common tasks such as printing.

Notes Page view

Use when you need to enter and edit large amounts of text that you can refer to when presenting. Slides should contain just key points and you should elaborate on the key points verbally as you deliver the presentation. Notes do not display when the presentation is shown, (except when Presenter view is used), but are intended to help the speaker remember the key points or additional information about each slide.

Slide Show View

Use when you present your slide show. Delivers the completed presentation full screen to an audience, one slide at a time, as an electronic presentation.

Outline View

Use when you would like to enter text into your presentation using an outline rather than having to enter the text into each placeholder on each slide separately.

Line weight

Used to modify a shape's outline thickness

WordArt

Uses special effects based on text rather than a shape. Special effects apply to the text itself, not to the shape surrounding the text.

Variant

Variation of the theme design you have chosen. Each one uses different color palettes and font families.

Collapsed outline

View displays only slide icons and the titles of slides

Expanded outline

View displays the slide icon, the title, and the content of the slides.

Transparency

Visibility of the fill

Design

Visual aspects of the presentation, such as layout, background, typography, color, animation, sections, etc.

Transition

Visual effect that takes place when one slide is replaced by another slide while the presentation is displayed in Slide Show view or Reading View.

Photo Album

a presentation that contains multiple pictures that are imported and formatted

New Text Box button

allows you to insert a text box with the photo caption in the album.

Album Layout section of the Photo Album dialog box

gives many options for personalizing the album. You can select from a variety of frame shapes. You can select a Picture layout. You can apply a theme for the background of your album.

Narration

spoken commentary