MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: Ctrl + M

Ctrl + M inserts a new slide after the current one, using the same layout unless the previous slide was a title slide, in which case it uses Title and Content. The distractors are all real shortcuts doing something else, and the confusion between them is what the question tests. Ctrl + N creates a new presentation, not a new slide. Ctrl + S saves. Ctrl + D duplicates the selected slide, which is often what is actually wanted when a slide is to be built on the last one. The related shortcuts complete the set: Ctrl + Shift + D also duplicates, Delete removes a selected slide in the thumbnail pane, and Ctrl + Z undoes. Choosing the layout explicitly is done from the New Slide dropdown rather than the shortcut, and it is worth doing - picking the right layout at the start saves rearranging placeholders afterwards.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Placeholders

The dotted boxes a layout supplies for a title, bulleted text, a chart or a table are called placeholders. They reserve the position and formatting; clicking one and typing fills it. “Auto layouts” are the arrangements of placeholders, not the boxes themselves.

Answer: D

Correct answer: a presentation design template

A design template sets the fonts, colours, background and layout for the whole presentation at once, so every slide follows the same appearance.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Linking a slide transition with a laser pointer

PowerPoint prints transparencies, prints speaker notes alongside slide images, and lets the presenter annotate a running show with the pen. There is no facility for tying a slide transition to a laser pointer, so that is the one thing on the list PowerPoint cannot do.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Rehearse timing button

Slide Show → Rehearse Timings runs the presentation with a timer visible; the time you spend on each slide is recorded and saved as that slide’s advance time, so the show can then run unattended. The Slide Transition pane can hold a figure typed by hand, but the command that records the timings is Rehearse Timings.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Slide sorter view

Slide Sorter view reduces every slide to a thumbnail and tiles them across the window, so slides can be re-ordered, duplicated, deleted and given transitions. Slide Show projects one slide full screen, Outline view shows text only, and Notes Page view shows one slide with its notes.

Answer: A

Correct answer: You can insert text boxes from drawing toolbar in PowerPoint

The Text Box tool on the Drawing toolbar adds a box anywhere on the slide, so text is not confined to the placeholders the layout provides.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The text box and text both are deleted

A text box is a single object, and its text is its content, so deleting the object removes both. Emptying the box without deleting it requires selecting the text instead.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Ctrl+M

Ctrl + M inserts a new slide. Ctrl + N creates a new presentation, which is the mistake the question is testing.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Ctrl + M

Ctrl + M inserts a new slide after the current one, the keyboard equivalent of Insert → New Slide. Ctrl + N opens a new presentation and Ctrl + O opens an existing file.