Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 Step by Step

Glossary

action button

A ready-made button that you can insert into a presentation and use to define hyperlinks.

adjustment handle

A diamond-shaped handle used to adjust the appearance but not the size of most AutoShapes. For example, you can adjust a rounded rectangle to be more or less rounded.

animation

In PowerPoint, an effect that you can apply to text or an object to produce an illusion of movement.

attribute

Individual items of character formatting, such as style or color, which determine how text looks.

AutoCorrect

A feature that automatically detects and corrects typos, misspelled words, grammatical errors, and incorrect capitalization. You can add custom AutoCorrect entries.

background

The underlying scheme, including colors, shading, texture, ...