A. Fill in the blanks. 1. buttons are used to switch between the views of slides. 2. PowerPoint presentation is part of the 3. is used for adding notes about the slides. 4. A setting with predefined combination of colours, fonts, and effects that can be applied to presentation is called a 5. A dotted rectangular box on a slide to hold text, tables, etc., is called grou 6. To add a new slide the presentation click on the New Slide option in the 7. You can view the presentation in different ways. view. 8. You can see miniature slides of the presentation in the 9. view is used to show the slides to the audience. 10. To end the show, press the
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ANSWER IN BRIEF : Slide layouts contain formatting, positioning, and placeholder boxes for all of the content that appears on a slide. Placeholders are the dotted-line containers on slide layouts that hold such content as titles, body text, tables, charts, SmartArt graphics, pictures, clip art, videos, and sounds. Slide layouts also contain the colors, fonts, effects, and the background (collectively known as the theme) of a slide.
Figure 1: All of the layout elements that you can include on a PowerPoint slide
PowerPoint includes built-in slide layouts, and you can modify these layouts to meet your specific needs, and you can share your custom layouts with other people who create presentations in PowerPoint.
Figure 2: Standard slide layouts in PowerPoint, showing the placement of various placeholders for text or graphics
In Slide Master view, you can change the standard slide layouts that are built in to PowerPoint. The picture below shows the slide master and two of the layout masters for a theme in Slide Master view.
Figure 3: In Slide Master view, in the thumbnail pane on the left, a slide master appears at the top, followed by layout masters that define layouts you can use like the Title slide and the Title And Content slide