Powerpoint Presentation Multimedia Software
Attributes -the properties or characteristics of an object
Animation - A visual effect that gives object the look of movement and life
Audience handouts - printouts of your electronic presentation that your audience can use to follow
along and to take notes.
Bulleted List - a list of items preceded with bullets instead of numbers or other objects.
Design template - provides consistency in design and color throughout the entire presentation;
determines the color scheme, font and font size, and layout of your presentation.
Drawing - allows you to create diagrams using shapes such as arcs, arrows, cubes, rectangles, stars,
and triangles.
Graphing - allows you to create and insert charts into your presentations.
Hyperlink - a link you click to display another webpage or document within a presentation; can
consist of specially formatted text, buttons, and hotspots on graphics or pictures.
Master slide - the slide that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a
presentation, including the background, color, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning
Menu bar - list each of the menus in applications and usually appears near the top of the application
window under the window title bar.
Multimedia - combines text, graphics, animation, video, and audio.
Multimedia effects - adds interest and keeps your audience attentive by adding effects, such as
sound and video to your presentation.
Object - any element that appears on a slide, such as clip art, text, drawings, charts, sounds, and
video clips.
Outlining - allows you quickly to create your presentation using an outline format.
Placeholders - empty objects on a new slide.
Presentation file - the file you save to disk that contains all the slides, speaker's notes, handouts,
that make up your presentation.
Presentation graphics software - allows the user to create documents called slides to be used in
making presentation.
Slide - an individual screen in a slide show; the basic unit of a presentation.
Slide show - a series of slides displayed in sequence; controlled manually or automatically.
Speaker notes - notes that include the slide as well as comments or points you may want to
remember.
Storyboard - A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the
slides planned for a presentation.
Target audience - A specific group of people with the same characteristics or traits; for example
age group, educational background, etc.
Title slide - generally the first slide in a presentation; introduces the audience to the presentation.
Toolbar - provide quick access to frequently used commands; a lot of the buttons are the same
from program to program.
Toolbox - resembles a toolbar, but hold items such as drawing tools rather than buttons that
perform commands.
Transition - a special effect used to introduce a slide during a slide show.