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Some PowerPoint Definitions
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The PowerPoint environment is easier to learn if you understand the ways
that the PowerPoint program "thinks" about the slides. The following definitions
will give you some help with this.
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Templates
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Backgrounds and color combinations that you can choose from that set the
mood for your presentation. Find out how to choose a template in Part
2: Opening PowerPoint.
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Views
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Different ways you can look at your presentation. You can choose slide
view, outline view, slide sorter view, note page view, or slide show. Slide
views are discussed in Part 4: The Many Views of Your
PowerPoint Presentation.
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Masters
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Places to set the standard look and feel of entire presentations by adding
your own logo, special clip art, the date, and/or page numbers. For example,
whatever you place on a slide master will be shown on every slide, whatever
you place on a handout master will be on every handout page, etc. See Part
7: Making Global Changes to Your PowerPoint Presentation Using the Master
Pages Feature.
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Layouts
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The guides for each individual slide, and include layouts for inserting
graphs, charts, tables, clip art, and columns, among others. See Part
3: Creating Slides - New Layouts.
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Objects
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The actual things that you want to place on a slide such as clip art, WordArt,
pictures, sound, movies, graphs, charts, and tables.
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Transitions and Effects
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Transitions are the movements from one slide to another. Effects are the
movements that give you control over the content flow on each individual
slide in your presentation. See Part 6: Building Transitions
and Effects on Your Slides.
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Output
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Besides the electronic output and viewer, you can print your slides as
overhead transparencies. Other options include printing to paper as notes
to yourself, as handouts to your class, or just as an outline.
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