PowerPoint Chapter 2 Vocab.

Picture or texture fill

Picture or texture fill uses a specific file or an image that simulates a material, such as cork, granite, marble, or canvas.

Fill effects

Fill effects add pattern and texture to a background, which add depth to a slide.

Format painter

The Format Painter allows you to copy all formatting changes form one object to another.

Background styles

For each theme, PowerPoint provides 12 background styles with designs that may include color, shading, patterns, and textures.

Gradient fill

Gradient fill is one color shade gradually progressing to another shade of the same color or one color progressing to another color.

Effect

Helps you add emphasis or depth to the characters.

Transparency slider

The Transparency slider indicates the amount of opaqueness.

Fill

Is the content that makes up the interior of a shape, line, or character.

WordArt

One method of adding appealing visual elements to a presentation is by using WordArt styles. This feature is found in other Microsoft Office applications, including Word and Excel.

Tiling options

Tiling options repeat the background image many times vertically and horizontally on the slide; the smaller the tiling percentage, the greater the number of times the image is repeated.

Shadow

A shadow helps letters display prominently by adding a shadow behind the text.

Style

A style is a named group of formatting characteristics.

Transparency

Allows you to see through the background, so that any text on the slide is visible.

Weight

As with font size, lines also are measured in point size, and PowerPoint gives you the option to change the line weight, or thickness, starting with 1/4 point and increasing in one-fourth-point increments.

Brightness

Brightness determines the overall lightness or darkness of the entire image.

Contrast

Contrast is the difference between the darkest and lightest areas of the image.

Color scheme

Each presentation template has 12 complementary colors, which collectively are called the color scheme. You can apply these colors to all slides, an individual slide, notes pages, or audience handouts.

Solid fill

Solid fill is one color used throughout the entire slide.

Offsets

You can use offsets, another background feature, to move the background from the slide borders in varying distances by percentage.