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Advantage Series: Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Advantage Series: Microsoft® PowerPoint 2002
Sarah Hutchinson-Clifford
Glen Coulthard


Glossary

Adjustment handle  Tiny yellow diamond that lets you change the appearance, not the size, of most AutoShapes.
Application window  In Microsoft Windows, each running application program appears in its own application window. These windows can be sized and moved anywhere on the Windows desktop.
audience handout  Printout of the slides in your presentation.
AutoContent Wizard  A PowerPoint feature that assists you in beginning new presentations by providing content and design suggestions.
AutoFit feature  With this feature enabled, PowerPoint automatically resizes placeholders to accommodate inserted text.
AutoShape  Ready-made shape that you can insert in your document and then move, resize, and otherwise format to meet your needs.
cell  In a table, the intersection of a column and a row.
Clip art  Computer graphic that you can insert into your document to make it more interesting or entertaining.
color scheme  Set of matching colors that help define the look of a presentation.
Design template  A presentation whose background, color schemes, typefaces, and other formatting options can be applied to another presentation.
destination document  An Office document that contains data copied from another application.
Diagram Gallery  PowerPoint dialog box providing a selection of business diagrams for insertion on your slides.
Draw layer  Invisible surface floating above (and mostly independent of) the slide layer. Used for holding objects, such as lines, arrows, and clip art images.
embedding  A method for sharing data in Microsoft Office applications. Embedded data is fully editable within the destination document and doesn’t retain a connection to its source document.
HTML  An acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, which is the standardized markup language used in creating documents for display on the World Wide Web.
Hyperlink  In terms of Internet technologies, a text string or graphics that when clicked take you to another location, either within the same document or to a separate document stored on your computer, an intranet resource, or onto the Internet.
Internet  A worldwide network of computer networks that are interconnected by standard telephone lines, fiber optics, and satellites.
Intranet  A private local or wide area network that uses Internet protocols and technologies to share information within an institution or corporation.
Justification  In PowerPoint, a description of how text and objects are aligned (left, center, right, full) in a placeholder.
linking  A method for sharing data in Microsoft Office applications. In linking, you not only paste the data, you also establish a dynamic link between the source and destination documents.
markup elements  Review marks showing comments and changes in a presentation.
Microsoft Graph  An Office mini-application that lets you create charts and graphs for insertion in the current document.
Normal view  In this view mode, the Outline tab, Slide pane, and Notes panes appear. This view mode provides one place for viewing the different parts of your presentation.
Organization chart  Schematic drawing showing a hierarchy of formal relationships.
Pack and Go Wizard  Used for compressing one or more presentations into a single file across one or more diskettes.
pasting  A method for sharing data in Office 2000 application. Pasting data involves inserting a static representation of the source data into the destination document.
Placeholder  Marks the location of a slide object and provides instructions for editing the object.
Places bar  The strip of icon buttons appearing in the Open and Save As dialog boxes that allow you to display the most common areas for retrieving and storing files using a single mouse click.
presentation broadcast  A presentation that has been scheduled for delivery on the Web. Broadcast presentations are viewed using browser software, not Microsoft PowerPoint.
Send To tools  PowerPoint tools for sending a presentation to others via e-mail.
server application  When sharing data among Office applications, this term refers to the application that was used to create the shared data.
Sizing handles  Tiny circles that surround a selected object. You drag the sizing handles to resize an object.
Slide Master  This slide holds the formatting specifications for all slides in your presentation.
source document  Original document in which information is created for transfer to a destination document.
Task Pane  Context-sensitive toolbar in PowerPoint that provides convenient access to relevant commands and procedures.
Text box  A container for text, graphics, tables, or other objects. You can position text boxes anywhere on a slide.
Title Master  Elements of a presentation's design template that controls the formatting of all slides using the Title Slide layout.
World Wide Web  A visual interface to the Internet based on hyperlinks. Using Web browser software, you click on hyperlinks to navigate resources on the Internet.




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