This is a digital slideshow that is commonly used in school, business meetings, marketing pitches, and training sessions.
PowerPoint
This is a clickable link that could help navigate the user or audience to a website, slide, or external file.
Hyperlinks
This feature allows the user to represent data visually and identify trends/comparisons easily.
Charts
This feature copies formatting from one object and applies it to another.
Format Painter
This view allows the user to edit, build, and format slides.
This view allows the user to only see a slide and their notes for that slide.
Notes Page View
This tool/feature allows the user to precisely position objects, text boxes, and pictures on a slide.
Align Tool
This feature allows users to move and resize an object on their slide.
Resize Handle/Handle
This interactive object triggers an action that the user can set and customize.
Action Buttons
This view shows your slides in full-screen mode just like an audience would see.
Reading View
This feature controls how one slide exits and the next one enters.
Transition
These are pre-designed slide layouts that provide a consistent structure and visual design throughout the entire presentation.
Templates
This feature is used by clicking on the circle above an object so they can spin it.
Rotate Handle
This feature provides collaboration on group projects in school or a business when using Microsoft Office.
Comments
These are pre-designed arrangements of text/image placeholders. Examples could be picture with caption, comparison, two-content.
Layout
This feature saves the user time by letting you hover over a style or effect to preview it.
Live Preview
These are sets of pre-designed colors, fonts, and effects that ensure design consistency.
Themes
This is decorative text that enhances visual appeal in a presentation.
WordArt
This is the PowerPoint where content (source file) is embedded or linked.
Destination File
This feature allows the user to combine multiple objects into one for easy movement throughout the slide.
Grouping
This area of PowerPoint displays thumbnail images of your slides on the left side of the screen.
Slide Pane
This feature allows the user to maintain consistency throughout their design and layout by allowing them to choose the way it looks before inserting a new slide.
Slide Master
This feature converts plain text into visually appealing diagrams and can be changed back to regular text with the click of a button.
SmartArt Graphic
This is the original file containing content that is put into a slide.
Source File
This feature allows the user to refine animation styles and timing. This is considered an advanced setting in PowerPoint.
Effect Options