.ppt:

Automatic extension that is attached to a PowerPoint file.

Action button:

Built-in 3-D button that can perform specific tasks  such as display the next slide or open another application, provide help, give information, and play sound.

Action Settings:

Allows you to specify which actions you want PowerPoint to perform.

Active application:

Application that is displaying in the foreground of the desktop.

Attributes:

Properties or characteristics of an object.

AutoLayout object area:

Collection of placeholders for the title, text, clipart, graphs, tables, and media clips (video and sound).

Bitmap Graphic:

Piece of art that has been stored as a pattern of dots called pixels.

Bullet:

A symbol (usually a heavy dot) that precedes text when the text warrants special emphasis.

Bulleted list:

A list of paragraphs, each preceded by a bullet.

Custom animation effects:

Define animations, sound effects, and timing for objects on a slide.

Demoted:

A paragraph that indented or pushed down to a lower level.

Design template:

Provides consistency on design and color throughout the entire presentation.

Hide Slide command:

Hides the supporting slide from the audience during the normal running of a slide show.

Hyperlink:

A shortcut that allows you to jump to another program and load a specific document. A hyperlink also allows you to move to specific slides in a PowerPoint presentation or to an Internet address.

Interactive document:

A file created in another application, such as Microsoft Word, and then opened during the running of a slide show.

Landscape Orientation:

Slide prints the width greater than the height.

Level:

Position within a structure, such as an outline, that indicates a magnitude of importance.

Microsoft PowerPoint:

Complete presentation graphics program that allows you to produce professional-looking presentations.

Organization chart:

Hierarchical collection of elements depicting various functions or responsibilities that contribute to an organization or to a collective function.

Pixel:

Short for picture element, one dot in a grid.

Placeholders:

Empty objects on new slide surrounded by dashed lines

Portrait Orientation:

Slide prints the height greater than the width.

Presentation:

PowerPoint document.

Promote:

Raises a paragraph from a lower level to a higher level.

Slide Master:

Controls the appearance of the other slides in your presentation.

Slide Transition effects:

Define special effects for progressing from one slide to the next in a slide show.

Slide:

The basic unit of a PowerPoint presentation.

Slide Layout:

Style Checker:

Helps identify errors in a presentation.

Sub-title placeholder:

Empty sub-title object that displays below the title placeholder on a title slide that is surrounded by a dashed line.

Supporting slides:

Provides detailed information to supplement another slide in the presentation.

Text attribute:

Characteristic of text, such as font, font size, font style, or text color.

Title Placeholder:

Empty title object on a new slide surrounded by a dashed line.

Title slide:

Introduces the presentation to the audience.

Ungroup:

PowerPoint breaks a clip art picture into its component objects.

Vector graphic:

Piece of art that has been created by a drawing program such as CorelDRAW! or AutoCAD.