Chapter 5: Glossary
Definition of terms used in this chapter:
Chapter 5: Glossary
| Animations | a visual or sound effect added to an object or text on a slide |
| Animation Pane | the pane that displays with additional options that can be applied to animations Color Variant – a variation on the presentation theme style or color |
| Audio | sound files that can be recorded and embedded into a presentation |
| Background image | an image that can be added to the background of a PowerPoint slide and will be automatically resized to fill the entire slide |
| Clustered column | a type of chart that displays more than one data series in clustered vertical columns; commonly used for direct comparison of multiple series, but they become visually complex quickly |
| Contiguous | slides that are adjacent to each other in a presentation |
| Crop | a command that removes unwanted or unnecessary areas of a picture |
| Crop to shape | a command that removes unwanted or unnecessary areas of a picture and forms it into a specified shape |
| Effect options | additional enhancements such as sound and timing that can be applied to an animation |
| Embedding | the integration of links, images, videos, gifs and other content from a variety of digital sources into a presentation |
| Eyedropper | a tool that captures the exact color from an object on your screen and then applies it to any shape, picture or text |
| Fit | a function of the crop command that allows you to resize the picture so that the entire picture displays inside the picture area, while maintain the original aspect ratio |
| Homepage | the main page of a website |
| Keep source formatting | maintains formatting options from the source file |
| Layout | the arrangement of elements in a PowerPoint slide such as title and subtitle, lists, pictures, shapes, charts, tables and media |
| Lock aspect ratio | a graphic option in which the ratio between height and width remains constant but the height and width can increase or decrease |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | a presentation program used to create business, educational or informal presentations |
| Noncontiguous | 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 pages | a printout that contains the slide image on the top half of the page and notes that you have entered on the notes pane in the lower half of the page |
| Notes pane | a printout that contains the slide image on the top half of the page and notes that you have entered on the notes pane in the lower half of the page |
| Online pictures | allows you to find and insert online pictures into your presentation from a variety of sources |
| Outline view | a PowerPoint view that displays the presentation outline to the left of the slide pane |
| Placeholder | a box on a slide with a dotted border that holds the title, body text, or other content such as charts, tables and media