Navigation & Views
This view is the default workspace where you edit individual slides one at a time.
What is Normal View?
While Animations apply to specific elements on a slide, these movement effects occur when moving from one slide to the next.
What are Transitions?
Located under the Insert tab, this option allows you to capture an open window or region of your computer monitor directly into your slide.
What is Screenshot / Screen Clipping?
Use this tool (shaped like a paintbrush) to quickly copy all formatting from one object or text box to another.
What is the Format Painter?
This split-screen interface allows the speaker to view private notes, upcoming slides, and a timer while the audience sees only the full slide.
What is Presenter View?
Use this view to see thumbnail versions of all slides simultaneously, making it easy to rearrange them.
What is Slide Sorter View?
Introduced in PowerPoint 2019, this powerful transition creates seamless, automatic movement and transformations between two slides with similar objects.
What is Morph?
PowerPoint allows you to insert these items that you can click and spin around 360 degrees, named for their three-dimensional shape.
What are 3D models?
This top-level slide in Slide Master view controls the default fonts, colors, and layout structure for the entire presentation.
What is the Slide Master?
If you want to print your presentation or save it as a file that cannot be edited, you should save or export it as this 3-letter file format.
What is a PDF?
Press this key on your keyboard to instantly start a slideshow from the very first slide.
What is F5? (Bonus: Shift + F5 starts from the current slide)
This pane on the right side of the screen lets you view, reorder, re-time, and trigger all animation effects on a slide.
What is the Animation Pane?
When you insert a 3D model onto a slide, a small icon shaped like a target appears in the middle that lets you drag to do this to the object.
What is rotate (or spin) it?
Introduced in PowerPoint 2019, this AI-powered side pane automatically suggests polished layout ideas when you drop images or text onto a slide.
What is Design Ideas / PowerPoint Designer?
his tab on the top ribbon is where you go when you are ready to start playing your presentation for an audience.
What is the Slide Show tab?
This 2019 feature lets you group slides into distinct, named segments for better presentation flow and easy navigation.
What are Sections?
These four distinct color-coded categories define PowerPoint animations: Green (Entrance), Yellow (Emphasis), Red (Exit), and this fourth type.
What are Motion Paths?
Found in the Insert tab, this visual graphic tool lets you quickly create organizational charts, process flows, and hierarchy diagrams.
What is SmartArt?
To combine, subtract, intersect, or unite two vector shapes into a custom shape, you use this group of tools under Shape Format.
What is Merge Shapes?
Below each slide, you can click and type extra details or reminders for yourself in this special box
What is the Notes pane (or Speaker Notes)?
Pressing this single key during a live slideshow instantly turns the screen completely black (or white if you press 'W').
What is the 'B' key?
This feature allows an animation to play only when you click a specific, designated object on the slide rather than clicking anywhere.
What is a Trigger?
To insert an audio clip that plays continuously across every slide during a presentation, you select this playback option.
What is "Play in Background"?
To force an object to maintain its original aspect ratio while resizing, hold down this keyboard key while dragging a corner handle.
What is the Shift key?
When you want to save a copy of your presentation with a brand new name or in a different folder, you use this command instead of regular "Save."
What is "Save As"?