MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

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: Audience handout

Handouts print miniature slide images, and the 3-slides-per-page handout layout puts ruled lines beside each thumbnail so the audience can write notes as they listen. Notes pages carry the speaker’s notes rather than blank lines, and Outline view prints text only.

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: B

Correct answer: Press the shift key and click the handout master view button

Holding Shift while clicking a view button at the bottom-left of the window switches to the corresponding master instead of the ordinary view - Shift + Slide Sorter gives Handout Master, Shift + Normal gives Slide Master. Without Shift the same button gives the ordinary view.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Re-apply the footer placeholder

If a footer placeholder is deleted in master view, Format → Master Layout lets you tick the footer box again and PowerPoint restores the placeholder in its original position. Re-applying the slide layout affects individual slides, and creating a new master would discard all the other formatting.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Rehearse timings button

Slide Show → Rehearse Timings runs the presentation with a timer; the seconds you spend on each slide are recorded and saved as that slide’s advance time, so the show can then run itself. The Slide Transition pane can also hold a manual figure, but the button that records the times is Rehearse Timings.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

An organization chart’s boxes can be selected in any of the three ways: Edit → Select All, right-clicking the chart background and choosing Select All, or holding Shift while clicking each box in turn. All three end with every box selected, so the combined option is correct.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Right clicking the current slide

During a slide show the toolbars are hidden. Right-clicking anywhere on the slide raises the show’s shortcut menu, with Next, Previous, Go to Slide, Pointer Options, Screen and End Show. The formatting toolbar is not on screen during a show, so there is no button to click.

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: A

Correct answer: select the box and text, then make changes

In an organization chart you must first click the box to select it and then click into its text before typing; selecting the box alone gives you the shape, and there is no text to highlight until the box is active. That is why only the option naming both steps is correct.