Glossary - Chapter 18
Artistic effects
Formats applied to images that make pictures resemble sketches or paintings.
Aspect ratio
The ratio of the width of a display to the height of the display.
Black slide
A slide that displays after the last slide in a presentation, indicating that the presentation is over.
Bulleted list
A list of items preceded by small dots or other shapes, which do not indicate order or rank. Sometimes
called unordered lists.
Clip
A single media file such as art, sound, animation, or a movie.
Contiguous slides
Slides that are adjacent to each other in a presentation.
Crop
A command that removes unwanted or unnecessary areas of a picture.
Crop handles
Handles used to remove unwanted areas of a picture.
Crop pointer
The pointer used to crop areas of a picture.
Crosshair pointer
The pointer used to draw a shape.
Editing
The process of modifying a presentation by adding and deleting slides or by changing the contents of
individual slides.
Eyedropper
A tool that captures the exact color from an object on your screen and then applies it to any shape,
picture, or text.
Fill color
The inside color of text or of an object.
Footer
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
The process of changing the appearance of the text, layout, and design of a slide.
Header
Text that prints at the top of each sheet of slide handouts or notes pages.
Layout
The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and
movies, on a 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.
Noncontiguous slides
Slides that are not adjacent to each other in a presentation.
Normal view
The primary editing view in PowerPoint where you write and design your presentations.
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
An area of the Normal view window that displays below the Slide pane with space to type notes
regarding the active slide.
Numbered list
A list of items preceded by numbers, which indicate sequence or rank of the items. Sometimes called
ordered lists.
Outline view
A PowerPoint view that displays the presentation outline to the left of the Slide pane.
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.
Presenter view
A view that shows the full-screen slide show on one monitor or projection screen while enabling the
presenter to view a preview of the next slide, notes, and a timer on another monitor.
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.
RGB
A color model in which the colors red, green, and blue are added together to form another color.
Rotation handle
A circular arrow that provides a way to rotate a selected image.
Ruler guides
Dotted red vertical and horizontal lines that display in the rulers indicating the pointer’s position.
Section header
A type of slide layout that changes the look and flow of a presentation by providing text placeholders
that do not contain bullet points.
Shape
A slide object such as a line, arrow, box, callout, or banner.
Sizing handles
Small circles surrounding a picture that indicate that the picture is selected.
Slide
A presentation page that can contain text, pictures, tables, charts, and other multimedia or graphic
objects.
Slide handout
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 Sorter view
A presentation view that displays thumbnails of all of the slides in a presentation.
Slide transitions
Motion effects that occur in Slide Show view when you move from one slide to the next during a
presentation.
Smart guides
Dashed lines that display on your slide when you are moving an object to assist you with alignment.
Split button
A type of button in which clicking the main part of the button performs a command and clicking the
arrow opens a menu, list, or gallery.
Style
A collection of formatting options that you can apply to a picture, text, or an object.
Text alignment
The horizontal placement of text within a placeholder.
Text box
An object with which you can position text anywhere on a slide.
Theme
A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your presentation by applying colors, fonts, and
effects.
Thumbnails
Miniature images of presentation slides.
Title slide
A slide layout—most commonly the first slide in a presentation—that provides an introduction to the
presentation topic.
Variant
A variation on the presentation theme style and color.
