Friday, January 11, 2008

Powerpoint Vocabulary

*presentation-A formal or an informal report, usually given orally.
*thumbnails-a small-size view of a slide in a powerpoint presentation.
*splitter bars-In PowerPoint, one of the narrow bars that separete the left, slide, and notes panes in normal view.
*title slide-The first slide in a Powerpoint presentation that displyays the main topic of the presentation.
*title-In Powerpoint, the main topic of a presentation or slide;the first line of text on a slide.
* placeholder-In word, formatted text within a templane file that you can replace with your own text.
*title area-In PowerPoint, a placeholder that reserves space for a slide's title.
*text area-In PowerPoint, a placeholder that reserves space for a subtitle or a numbered or bulleted list.
*Object area-A placeholder on a powerpoint slide that is reserving space for objects such as tables, charts, or graphing images.
*Rich text formula-a file format with the extension .rtf that enables the text in the file to be transffered and read by different applications.
*AutoContent Wizard-A tool to help PowerPoint users create a presentationeasily by using a set of preprogrammed slide layouts.
*boilerplate Text-Standard text that is appropriate for the type of presentation selected when using powerPoint's AutoContent Wizard.
*Indent Level-In PowerPoint, a number that indicates the indent and importance of a subtitle in relation to the title.
*Promote-In PowerPoint, to raise the level of a subtitle so that it has a smaller indent(or no indent at all) and a large type size.
*Demote-In PowerPoint, to lower the level of a subtitle so that it has a larger indent and a smaller type size.
*Object-InPowerPoint, a nohntext element such as a chart , table, clip art image,photo,movieclip,or anothertype of information.
*Subtitle-In PowerPoint, any text in one or two columns, or a bulleted item in a list, that follows tha title and gives more detail about the title.