BUAD Powerpoint Exam

Gradient Fill

A blend of two or more colors or shades.

Design Themes

A collection of formatting choices that includes colors, fonts, and special effects.

Quick Styles

A combination of formatting options that can be applied to a shape or graphic.

Placeholder

A container that holds content.

WordArt

A feature that modifies text to include special effects, such as color, shadow, gradient, and 3-D appearance.

Plain Text Format (.txt)

A file format that retains only text but no formatting when transferring documents between applications or platforms.

Rich Text Format (.rtf)

A file format that retains structure and most text formatting when transferring documents between applications or platforms.

Template

A file that incorporates a theme, a layout, and content that can be modified.

Shape

A geometric or non- geometric object, such as a rectangle or an arrow, used to create an illustration or highlight information.

Connector Lines

A line shape that is attached to and moves with other shapes.

Annotation

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

Text Pane

A pane for text entry used for a SmartArt diagram

Callouts

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

Presenters View

A specialty view that delivers a presentation on two monitors simultaneously.

Transitions

A specific animation that is applied when a previous slide is replaced by a new slide.

Outline View

A view showing the presentation in an outline format displayed in levels according to the points and any subpoints on each slide

Storyboard

A visual design that helps you plan the direction of your presentation slides.

Adjustment Handle

A yellow circle that enables you to modify a shape.

Collapsed Outline

An Outline view that displays only the slide number, icon, and title of each slide in Outline view.

Expanded Outline

An Outline view that displays the slide number, icon, title, and content of each slide in the Outline view

Slide Show

An electronic method to deliver your message using multiple slides.

Text Box

An object that provides space for text anywhere on a slide; it can be formatted a border, shading, and other characteristics.

Slide Layouts

Defines containers, positioning, and formatting for all of the content that appears on a slide.

Smart Art

Diagram that presents information visually to effectively communicate a message.

Slide Sorter View

Displays thumbnails of your presentation slides, allowing you to view multiple slides simultaneously.

Lock Drawing Mode

Enables the creation of multiple shapes of the same type.

Convert Text to Smart Art

In home tab, paragraph section

Texture Fill

Inserts a fill such as marble into a shape.

Categories of Smart Art

List, Process, Cycle, Hierarchy, Relationship, Matrix, Pyramid

Resizing shapes Rotating or flipping shapes Merging shapes Grouping and ungrouping shapes Changing or recoloring shapes

Modify Objects

Reposition and resize Modify text Add and remove shapes Change colors Change the style Change the layout Change SmartArt type

Modify Smart Art diagrams

PowerPoint Views

Normal View, Notes Pages View, Slide Sorter View, Reading View, Slide Show View

Print with PowerPoint:

Slides, Handouts, Note Pages, Outline

Normal View

The default PowerPoint view, containing two panes that provide maximum flexibility in working with the presentation.

Slides

The most basic element of PowerPoint, analogous to a page in a Word document.

Animations

The movement applied to an object or objects on a slide.

Slide Show View

The view used to deliver a completed presentation full screen to an audience, one slide at a time.

Notes Pages View

Used if the speaker needs to enter and edit large amounts of text for reference in the presentation.

Reading View

Used to view a slide show full screen, one slide at a time, for performing a thorough review of the slides without the full interface onscreen.

7X7 Guideline

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

PowerPoint slide show

ppsx file extension Opens in Slide Show view

PowerPoint presentation

pptx file extension. Opens in Normal view