Sarah: February 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

PowerPoint Vocabulary #3

Change Marker- An icon in a PowerPoint presentation indicating that a reviewer has made a change.
Comment Marker- An icon in a PowerPoint presentation that looks similar to a sticky note, indicating that a reviewer has made a comment.
Comment- 1. In Word, small balloons in the margin of a document that hold remarkers or suggestions. 2. In PowerPoint, a special text box in a presentation in which a reviewer inserts a note. The comment includes the date the reviewer wrote the comment along with the name of the registered user of the reviewer's computer.
Embedded Font- A font inserted in a PowerPoint presentaion in such a way that the font will always appear the same, even if the presentation is shown on another computer.
Liquid crystal display (LCD) projector- Equipment that allows you to project the slides in a PowerPoint presentation in slide show view from your computer onto a blank wall or large video screen.
Online Broadcast- A PowerPoint feature that allows audience members to view a presentation on their own computers using their Web browsers.
Publish- To save a PowerPoint presentation as a set of Web pages on an intranet or Web server, allowing others to open and navigate the presentation using their Web browsers.

Monday, February 4, 2008

PowerPoint Vocabulary #3

Animated Object- An object such as a picture, text box, or other graphic that appears by itself during a PowerPoint Presentation.
Animated text- Text that displays on a PowerPoint slide one line or bulleted point at a time.
Animation- A sound or visual effect added to a PowerPoint presentation to make the presentation more interesting.
Bit-mapped image- An image made from a series of small dots it may have a .bmp, .png, .jpg, or .gif file extension.
Embed- To insert a sourse file into a destination file; any changes made later to the sourse file are not reflected in the destination file.
Footer- A line of text that appears at the bottom of each page in a file containing information such as the document's name, a page number, or the date.
Header- A line of text that appears at the top of each page in a file containing information such as the document's name, a page number, or the top of a disk drive.
Link- The connection between a sourse file and a destination file, or between two tables; any changes made later to the sourse file are reflected in the destination file.
Slide Master- a hidden slide in every PowerPoint presentation that stores design template specifications such as placeholder sizes and positions, bullet styles, font styles and sizes, and background color for all slides but the title slide. The slide master can be used to make changes to an entire presentation.
Title Master- A hidden slide in every PowerPoint presentation that stores design template specifications such as placeholder size and positions, font styles and sizes, and background color for any slide that uses the Title Slide layout.
Transition- The way in which one slide replaces another during a PowerPoint presentation.