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A

Artistic effects Formats applied to images that make pictures resemble sketches or paintings.

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B

Black slide A slide that displays at the end of an electronic slide show indicating that the presentation is over.

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E

Editing The process of modifying a presentation by adding and deleting slides or by changing the contents of individual slides.

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F

Footer (PowerPoint) Text that displays at the bottom of every slide or that prints at the bottom of a sheet of slide handouts or notes pages.

Formatting (PowerPoint) The process of changing the appearance of the text, layout, and design of a slide.

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H

Header (PowerPoint) Text that prints at the top of each sheet of slide handoutsor notes pages.

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L

Layout The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and movies, on a PowerPoint slide.

List level An outline level in a presentation represented by a bullet symbol and identified in a slide by the indentation and the size of the text.

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N

Notes page A printout that contains the slide image on the top half of the page and notes that you have created on the Notes pane in the lower half of the page.

Notes pane The PowerPoint screen element that displays below the Slide pane with space to type notes regarding the active slide.

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P

Placeholder A box on a slide with dotted or dashed borders that holds title and body text or other content such as charts, tables, and pictures.

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R

Reading view A view in PowerPoint that displays a presentation in a manner similar to a slide show but in which the taskbar, title bar, and status bar remain available in the presentation window.

Rotation handle A green circle that provides a way to rotate a selected image.

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S

Sizing handles Small circles and squares that indicate that a picture is selected.

Slide A presentation page that can contain text, pictures, tables, charts, and other multimedia or graphic objects.

Slide handouts Printed images of slides on a sheet of paper.

Slide pane A PowerPoint screen element that displays a large image of the active slide.

Slide handouts Printed images of slides on a sheet of paper.

Slide Sorter view A presentation view that displays thumbnails of all of the slides in a presentation.

Slide transitions The motion effects that occur in Slide Show view when you move from one slide to the next during a presentation.

Slides/Outline pane A PowerPoint screen element that displays the presentation either in the form of thumbnails (Slides tab) or in outline format (Outline tab).

Style (PowerPoint) A collection of formatting options that can be applied to a picture, text, or an object.

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T

Text alignment (PowerPoint) The horizontal placement of text within a placeholder.

Theme (PowerPoint) A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your presentation by applying colors, fonts, and effects.

Thumbnails (PowerPoint) Miniature images of presentation slides.

Title slide The first slide in a presentation the purpose of which is to provide an introduction to the presentation topic.

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