| Adjustment handle | Tiny yellow diamond that lets you change the appearance, not the size, of most AutoShapes.
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| 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.
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| audience handout | Printout of the slides in your presentation.
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| AutoContent Wizard | A PowerPoint feature that assists you in beginning new presentations by providing content and design suggestions.
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| AutoFit feature | With this feature enabled, PowerPoint automatically resizes placeholders to accommodate inserted text.
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| AutoShape | Ready-made shape that you can insert in your document and then move, resize, and otherwise format to meet your needs.
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| cell | In a table, the intersection of a column and a row.
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| Clip art | Computer graphic that you can insert into your document to make it more interesting or entertaining.
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| color scheme | Set of matching colors that help define the look of a presentation.
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| Design template | A presentation whose background, color schemes, typefaces, and other formatting options can be applied to another presentation.
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| destination document | An Office document that contains data copied from another application.
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| Diagram Gallery | PowerPoint dialog box providing a selection of business diagrams for insertion on your slides.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| HTML | An acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, which is the standardized markup language used in creating documents for display on the World Wide Web.
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| 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.
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| Internet | A worldwide network of computer networks that are interconnected by standard telephone lines, fiber optics, and satellites.
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| Intranet | A private local or wide area network that uses Internet protocols and technologies to share information within an institution or corporation.
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| Justification | In PowerPoint, a description of how text and objects are aligned (left, center, right, full) in a placeholder.
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| 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.
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| markup elements | Review marks showing comments and changes in a presentation.
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| Microsoft Graph | An Office mini-application that lets you create charts and graphs for insertion in the current document.
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| 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.
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| Organization chart | Schematic drawing showing a hierarchy of formal relationships.
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| Pack and Go Wizard | Used for compressing one or more presentations into a single file across one or more diskettes.
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| 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.
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| Placeholder | Marks the location of a slide object and provides instructions for editing the object.
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| 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.
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| presentation broadcast | A presentation that has been scheduled for delivery on the Web. Broadcast presentations are viewed using browser software, not Microsoft PowerPoint.
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| Send To tools | PowerPoint tools for sending a presentation to others via e-mail.
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| server application | When sharing data among Office applications, this term refers to the application that was used to create the shared data.
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| Sizing handles | Tiny circles that surround a selected object. You drag the sizing handles to resize an object.
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| Slide Master | This slide holds the formatting specifications for all slides in your presentation.
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| source document | Original document in which information is created for transfer to a destination document.
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| Task Pane | Context-sensitive toolbar in PowerPoint that provides convenient access to relevant commands and procedures.
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| Text box | A container for text, graphics, tables, or other objects. You can position text boxes anywhere on a slide.
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| Title Master | Elements of a presentation's design template that controls the formatting of all slides using the Title Slide layout.
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| 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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