MO-310 key terms

The top-level design layer that stores background, fonts, colors, and placeholder positions for a presentation. Edits made to it flow down to every layout that inherits from it.

A single slide arrangement defined under the slide master, with placeholders for titles, text, pictures, and other content. Each layout inherits the master's design but can be edited separately.

A named set of coordinated colors, fonts, and shape effects that gives a presentation a consistent look. A theme can be applied to the whole deck or to selected slides.

The dimensions of every slide in a presentation, usually Widescreen at 16:9 or Standard at 4:3. Changing the size rescales existing content, so placeholders may need adjustment afterwards.

The design template for printed or presented speaker notes. It controls the background, fonts, and placement of the slide image and notes text on every notes page.

A saved list of slides chosen from the presentation and played in a specified order. It lets one deck serve several audiences without changing the original slide sequence.

A presenter's screen that shows the current slide, the upcoming slide, speaker notes, and a timer, while the audience sees only the full-screen slide show on a different display.

A recording mode that tracks how long each slide stays on screen and stores those durations. The saved timings can drive automatic advancement during a slide show.

A review tool that finds hidden data in a file, such as comments, speaker notes, and personal properties, and offers to delete it before the presentation is shared.

A named group of consecutive slides used to organize a long deck. Sections can be collapsed, expanded, or moved as a unit in the thumbnail pane and Slide Sorter view.

A slide property that skips the slide during a full-screen show while keeping it in the file and visible to the editor. It is useful for backup or optional content.

A command that inserts copies of slides from another presentation into the current deck, with the option to keep the source formatting or adopt the destination theme.

A command that restores a slide's placeholders to the position, size, and formatting defined by its layout, discarding manual moves and text formatting on that slide.

A text-based editing pane that shows slide titles and bullet levels as an indented outline, letting you type, reorder, and promote or demote content quickly.

A view that displays all slides as small thumbnails in a grid, making it easy to reorder, copy, delete, and apply transitions to many slides at once.

A box on a layout that reserves space for a specific content type, such as a title, bulleted list, picture, or chart, and inherits formatting from the slide master.

A freely positioned container for text that is not tied to a layout placeholder. It can be moved, resized, and formatted independently of the slide's structure.

A tool that copies formatting from a selected object and applies it to another object with a single click; double-clicking keeps the tool active for multiple targets.

Combining two or more objects into a single unit so they can be moved, resized, and formatted together; individual objects remain editable after you ungroup them.

A feature that combines selected shapes using modes such as Union, Combine, Fragment, Intersect, and Subtract to create custom outlines and cutouts.

Descriptive text attached to a picture, shape, chart, or other object so screen readers can announce what the object shows to users who cannot see it.

Trimming the visible edges of a picture or object without deleting the hidden areas, which can be restored later by dragging the crop handles outward again.

A panel that lists every object on a slide, letting you select, rename, reorder, hide, or show items that are stacked behind other objects.

Checkboxes that switch on or off parts of a table's design, such as a header row, total row, banded rows, banded columns, first column, and last column.

The block of worksheet cells that supplies the categories and values plotted in a chart. Editing the range changes which data appears without recreating the chart.

The individual parts of a chart, such as the title, axis titles, legend, data labels, gridlines, and trendline, each of which can be added or removed.

A predefined diagram structure, such as a list, process, hierarchy, or cycle, that arranges text and shapes into a designed graphic that resizes automatically.

A three-dimensional object inserted into a slide that can be rotated and tilted in three axes and, in slide show mode, turned interactively by the audience.

The still image displayed for a video before it starts playing. It can be set to any point in the clip or replaced with a picture you supply.

Cutting unwanted footage from the start or end of a video clip inserted on a slide, leaving the original media file untouched on disk.

A setting that decides whether an audio or video clip begins automatically when its slide appears, when clicked, or in sequence with other media.

The visual effect that plays when the slide show moves from one slide to the next, applied to the incoming slide and configurable for speed and trigger.

A transition that animates objects between slides by detecting matching shapes, pictures, and text, then smoothly moving, resizing, and recoloring them into their new positions.

A task pane listing every animation on the current slide in playback order, where you can add effects, set timing, reorder items, and remove animations.

An animation that moves an object along a drawn line or a preset route, such as a curve or loop, from a start point to an end point.

A setting that starts an animation only when a specific object on the slide is clicked, rather than on a slide click or automatically with the slide.

A tool that copies all animation effects and their settings from one object and applies them to another object, similar to how Format Painter copies formatting.

A menu for adjusting the direction, shape, or intensity of a chosen transition or animation, such as the direction a shape flies in from.

The Start setting (on click, with previous, after previous) plus duration and delay, which together control when and how fast an animation plays.