Business Services

Key terms and concepts

Term	Definition
Speaker notes	Notes prepared by the presenter, to assist with remembering comments to accompany a slide. They can be prepared on the same page as the slide but are not shown to the audience.
Handouts	Presentations can be printed in the form of handouts, with up to nine slides displayed on a page, which the audience can use for future reference.
Logos	Visual images used as a company trademark, or instead of the company name. They can be a combination of characters and/or graphics creating a single design used to identify a company.
Text animation	Single words or lines of text which move onto and/or across the screen.
Transitions	The way in which one slide follows another onto the screen.
Slide master	An element of the design template that stores information about the template, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design and colour schemes.
Auto Layout	Automatic adjustment of content to suit slide layout, when items are added or amended, or a different slide layout is selected.
Auto Format	Options that include automatic changes to text, for example changing fraction characters to a fraction symbol, formatting Internet paths as hyperlinks or applying bulleted or numbered lists.