| Adjustment handles | The gold handles on a selected object that allow the prominent feature of the object to be adjusted. Not all objects can be adjusted.
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| Color scheme | The palette that controls default color values for the slide background, body text, lines, shadows, title text, fills, hyperlinks, and accents.
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| Grids | Evenly spaced lines that display on the slide to help size and align objects. Grids are controlled from the Draw menu of the Drawing toolbar and do not display or print with the slide show.
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| Grouping | The ability to combine multiple objects into a single object. Grouped objects can be manipulated as one object or each component can have individual properties set.
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| Guides | User positioned lines that display on the slide to help size and align objects.
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| Intrinsic color schemes | Color schemes that are shipped with a particular PowerPoint template.
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| Matting | Placing a solid background behind text to differentiate it more clearly from a busy background.
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| Palette | The selection of available colors that displays on color menus. Custom colors can be added to the palette.
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| Regroup | Causing ungrouped objects to become a group or single object again.
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| Rotation handle | The green handle of a selected object that slows the object to be rotated by dragging.
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| Ungroup | Returning a grouped object to its original state of individual objects.
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| Z-order | The order that objects are stacked in as they are added to a slide. The first object added is closest to the slide.
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