MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: Edit the notes master and add your company logo

Notes pages are governed by the notes master, which holds the slide image, the notes placeholder and any background items. A logo placed there prints on every notes page automatically. The slide master governs the slides themselves and the handout master the audience handouts, so neither puts a logo on notes pages.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Audience handouts

Handouts are the printed form of a presentation given to the audience - several slide thumbnails to a page. An outline prints the text alone and speaker notes are for the presenter, so neither is the copy handed out.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Select the slide thumbnails in that section and apply a different design template

PowerPoint supports more than one design template in a presentation: select just those slides in the Slide Sorter or the slides pane, then click the template in the Slide Design pane - it is applied to the selection alone. A different colour scheme would change the colours but keep the original layout and fonts, and the Format Painter copies formatting object by object rather than applying a template.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The visual effect when moving from one slide to the next

A transition is the visual effect used when moving from one slide to the next - fade, push, wipe, morph and so on. It is applied to a slide from the Transitions tab and governs how that slide arrives. The distinction from animation is the point most often examined and most often confused. A transition acts between slides; an animation acts on an object within a slide, controlling how it enters, is emphasised, moves or leaves. The two are on separate ribbon tabs for that reason. Transitions carry a duration and can be triggered by a click or automatically after a set time, and Apply To All gives the whole deck one setting - which is usually the right choice, since varied transitions look unsettled. The Morph transition is the notable modern addition: it animates smoothly between two slides containing the same objects in different positions, producing motion without any animation being set.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Color Scheme

A colour scheme is the coordinated set of eight colours a design uses for background, text, fills and accents. Changing the scheme recolours every object that follows it, leaving the content alone.

Answer: C

Correct answer: A new slide is inserted as third slide in presentation

A new slide is inserted after the selection, and the selection ends at the second slide, so the new one becomes the third.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Attachment

A presentation file is sent by adding it to the message as an attachment, so the .ppt file travels alongside the message and the recipient opens it in PowerPoint. Reply and Forward are ways of responding to mail you have received, not ways of adding a file, and “inclusion” is not a mail term.

Answer: D

Correct answer: none of the above

In a PowerPoint table a row is added by clicking in the last cell and pressing Tab, or by using Table → Insert → Rows on the Tables and Borders toolbar. There is no Insert Rows command on the Insert menu and no such button on the Standard toolbar, and Enter merely starts a new line inside the current cell - so none of the three listed actions works.

Answer: D

Correct answer: a presentation design template

A design template fixes the background, colour scheme, fonts and placeholder positions for the whole presentation, so every slide inherits the same look. A slide layout only arranges the placeholders on one slide, adding a slide creates a slide, and Outline view shows the text without affecting appearance.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Zoom

The notes text box in Normal view is small, so the text is displayed at a reduced percentage and is hard to read while typing. Raising the Zoom level enlarges the pane on screen without changing the printed size. Slide Show runs the presentation, Insert adds objects, and the Slide Master governs formatting - none of them make the notes pane easier to read.