A slide is a single screen of a presentation, and every presentation is composed of several slides.
Slides keep an audience’s attention during a presentation and provide additional supporting information in textual or graphic format.
The first slide of a presentation is usually a title or introductory slide.
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It typically consists of text only, but it can include graphic elements or images as well.
Subsequent slides are chosen based on the information to be transmitted.
Some slides contain images, or charts and graphs.
PowerPoint includes alarge number of transitionsyou can apply to slides.
A transition controls the appearance of one slide as it transitions to the next.
Enhancing a Slide
Slides can have sound effects attached to them.
The sound effects list includes cash register, crowd laughing, drum roll, whoosh,typewriterand many more.
Adding motion to an element on a slide a line of text or an image is called animation.
