MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

Auto ClipArt watches the words you type, so it both places suggested clip art in the presentation and checks the text - on the slides and in WordArt objects - as it does so. Since each statement describes part of what the feature does, the combined option is the right one.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Double click the application control menu icon

Double-clicking the application control-menu icon at the top-left of the PowerPoint window closes the program. Minimizing only hides it, and the document close button or the document control menu closes the presentation while PowerPoint stays open.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The original file that was inserted is not changed

An inserted picture is copied into the presentation, so cropping, recolouring or resizing it affects only that copy. The file on disk is untouched, whatever is done to the picture or when the file is saved.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Dragging

Pressing the left button, moving the mouse and then releasing it is called dragging. What it achieves depends on where the drag begins: on an object it moves it, on a sizing handle it resizes it, on blank slide area it sweeps out a selection rectangle. Moving and selecting are outcomes of a drag, not names for the action.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

PowerPoint is used for all three: outlines for teaching, student project presentations, and the communication of plans in an organisation.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Clipart, From Files, AutoShapes

Insert > Picture offers Clip Art, From File and AutoShapes, along with organisation chart and WordArt in some versions.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Select the slide in slide sorter view, right click and choose preset animations from the shortcut menu

In Slide Sorter view, right-clicking a slide raises a shortcut menu that includes Preset Animation, so an effect can be applied to the selected slides without opening any dialog. There is no Format → Animation command, and PowerPoint certainly does have animation.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Ctrl + Home

Ctrl + Home jumps to the beginning of the presentation, and Ctrl + End to the last slide. Page Up and the Previous Slide button move back only one slide at a time.

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.