Power point vocabulary

Key tip

A Key Tip is a string. Its maximum width is equal to 3 characters. As seen from the image above, there are two key tips starting with the 'A' character. Pressing this character hides other key tips.

Notes page view

A Notes Pane allows brief annotations regarding a specific page in a document, PowerPoint slide, web page, or other files containing multiple pages, worksheets, or other data.

Task pane

A Task Pane is a new feature included in Microsoft Office XP. It is a dockable dialog window that gives users a convenient way to use commands, gather information, and modify their documents. An Office Task Pane can contain one or more pages, and each page is broken up into sections.

Slide show view

A collection of pages arranged in sequence that contain text and images for presenting to an audience. It often refers to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

Pop-up menu

A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.

Dialog box launcher

A dialog box launcher is a small icon that appears in a group. Users click this icon to open related dialog boxes or task panes that provide more options that relate to the group.

Document theme

A document theme is a set of formatting choices that includes theme colors, theme fonts (including heading and body text fonts), and theme effects (including lines and fill effects).

Status bar

A horizontal bar, typically at the bottom of the screen or window, showing information about a document being edited or a program running.

Slides tab

A list of paragraphs that are numbered consecutively within the body text.

AutoFit

A note you add to a slide to provide corrections or input to the slide content. Term. Autofit. Definition. powerpoint feature designed to reduce font size to fit text in the current placeholder.

Slide indicator

A number that shows the user what slide they are on.

Gallery

A page that displays images, gifs, thumbnails, etc.

Black slide

A slide is a single page of a presentation created with software such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress. A presentation is composed of several slides. The best presentations use approximately ten to twelves slides to get the message across.

Slide

A slide is a single page of a presentation created with software such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress. A presentation is composed of several slides. The best presentations use approximately ten to twelves slides to get the message across.

Slide pane

A slide pane is a feature available in some programs, usually found on the left side of the window, which displays thumbnails of available files or features available in the program. For example, the slide pane in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations displays available slides in a slide slow presentation.

Multi-level bulleted list slide

A slide that has more than one level of bulleted text.

Microsoft office PowerPoint

A software package designed to create electronic presentations consisting of a series of separate pages or slides.

Office theme

A theme is a unified set of design elements and color schemes that you apply to pages to give them a consistent and attractive appearance. Using a theme is a quick and easy way to add interest to pages and give them a professional look. A theme affects all aspects of a page's appearance: Colors.

Title slide

A title slide in PowerPoint can take on many different definitions, but in most cases, it is the first slide in the slide deck and appears in the PowerPoint workspace when that presentation is opened. By default in PowerPoint, the title slide offers two text boxes for a title and subtitle.

Horizontal scroll bar

A vertical bar on the right side of a window or a horizontal bar at the bottom of a window that is used to move the window contents up and down or left and right. The bar contains a "thumb", which looks like an elevator in a shaft.

Vertical scroll bar

A vertical scroll bar is a narrow strip drawn up the side of the window containing a "bubble" whose position in the scroll bar represents the position of the visible part within the whole document. By dragging the bubble with the mouse the user can scroll the view over the entire document.

Placeholders

Add a placeholder to a layout. ... Placeholders are boxes with dotted borders that contain content and reside within a slide layout. All built-in slide layouts contain content placeholders.

Demoting

Demoting a paragraph moves it down one level in the outline.

Promoting

Further the progress of (something, especially a cause, venture, or aim); support or actively encourage.

Normal view

In Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress, the normal view is the typical view used for creating and viewing presentation slides. This view is also known as Slide View and offers a full size view of a slide, making it easier to create and edit slides.

Landscape orientation

In word processing and desktop publishing, the terms portrait and landscape refer to whether the document is oriented vertically or horizontally. A page with landscape orientation is wider than it is tall.

Inserting multimedia

Inserting sound, graphics, or text.

Line spacing

Line spacing is the vertical distance between lines of text. Most writers use either double-spaced lines or single-spaced lines—nothing in between—because those are the options presented by word processors.

Drag and drop

Move (an icon or other image) to another part of the screen using a mouse or similar device, typically in order to perform some operation on a file or document.

Outline tab

Outline Tab. The portion of the PowerPoint window that display an outline of the titles and test of each slide in the presentation. Placeholder. A region of a slide, or a location in an outline, reserved for inserting text or graphics.

PowerPoint help

PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. ... The software allows users to create anything from basic slide shows to complex presentations. PowerPoint is often used to create business presentations, but can also be used for educational or informal purposes.

Document information panel

The Document Information Panel is a Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form that is hosted and displayed in a Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Notes pane

The Notes Pane is an important part of PowerPoint's tri-pane interface consisting of the Slides/Outline pane, the Slide itself, and the Notes pane.

Quick access toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable toolbar that contains a set of commands that are independent of the tab on the ribbon that is currently displayed. You can move the Quick Access Toolbar from one of the two possible locations, and you can add buttons that represent commands to the Quick Access Toolbar.

Layouts

The way in which text or pictures are set out on a page.

Splitter bar

Used to adjust the height and width of the window panes.