MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

An action button, or any object given an action setting, can be made to run a macro, play a sound, or follow a hyperlink to another slide, file or web page - and it can also run a program or act on an embedded object. All three listed actions are available, on click or on mouse-over.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Pack and Go

The Pack and Go wizard bundles the presentation with its linked files and the fonts it uses - optionally with the PowerPoint Viewer - and splits the package across disks if needed, so it can be carried to another machine and run there. Save As copies the presentation file alone and leaves its links behind.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Notes

The left panel of the PowerPoint window offers the Outline and Slides tabs. Speaker notes appear in the pane below the slide, not as a tab beside it.

Answer: A

Correct answer: You can type text directly into a PowerPoint slide but typing in text box is convenient

Text cannot be typed straight onto a slide: it always goes into a placeholder or a text box, even when the box is created automatically by the layout. The other three statements are all true.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Click Start >> Run then type powerpnt then press Enter

The executable is powerpnt.exe, without the second o, so typing powerpnt in the Run box starts it. ppoint.exe does not exist.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Animations

Slide layouts are composed of placeholders - titles, lists, charts, tables, media. Animation is applied to objects afterwards and is not part of a layout.

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: A

Correct answer: Slide Sorter

Slide Sorter displays every slide as a small thumbnail in a grid, which makes it the view for working on the presentation as a whole rather than on one slide. Slides can be reordered by dragging, deleted, duplicated, hidden and grouped into sections from here, and transition timings are shown beneath each thumbnail - so it is also where the flow and pacing of a deck are judged. The other views serve different purposes. Normal is the editing view, with the slide in the main pane and a thumbnail strip beside it. Reading View plays the presentation in a window rather than full screen. Notes Page shows a slide with its speaker notes below, laid out as it would print. Two further views sit on the View tab: Outline View, which shows the text of every slide as an indented outline and is the fastest way to draft content, and the Slide Master, which governs the design of the whole deck.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The slide remains in the file but is skipped during the presentation

Hide Slide keeps the slide in the presentation but skips it during the show. In the thumbnail pane its number appears struck through, so hidden slides are easy to identify. Its use is for material held in reserve: detailed backup slides answering questions that may or may not be asked, or an appendix kept for the printed handout but not for the talk. Nothing is lost, and the slide can be unhidden with the same command. A hidden slide can still be reached during a presentation if wanted - typing its number and pressing Enter jumps to it, and it appears in the Presenter View slide grid - which is exactly what makes it useful for answering a question. It is also included when printing unless Print hidden slides is unticked. The alternative for organising a long deck is sections, which group slides under collapsible headings without affecting whether they are shown.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Word Art

The task pane offers Getting Started, Help, Search Results, Clip Art, Clipboard, New Presentation, Slide Layout, Slide Design and Custom Animation. WordArt is inserted from the Drawing toolbar and has no pane.