MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Is determined by the presentation design but can be changed

The table placeholder is positioned and sized by the presentation design, so a new table arrives at a standard size - but that is only a starting point: dragging its handles resizes it and dragging the gridlines changes individual columns and rows. So it is neither fixed nor governed purely by the amount of text.

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.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Notes page view

Notes Page view shows one slide at the top of a printed page with a large text area beneath it for the speaker’s comments, so it is where those notes are written and formatted in full. Normal view has a small notes pane for quick typing, but neither Slide Show nor Slide Sorter offers a place to enter comments.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Menu bar

The toolbars carry buttons for the commands used most often, but the menu bar is the complete index: every command PowerPoint has can be reached from one of its menus, whether or not a button exists for it. The Standard, Formatting and Drawing toolbars each show only a small selection.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Placeholder

The dotted boxes a layout supplies to receive a title, bulleted text, a picture, a table or a chart are called placeholders. They reserve the position and the formatting; clicking one and typing or inserting fills it. A text box is drawn by hand where no placeholder exists.

Answer: C

Correct answer: 400%

The Zoom box on the Standard toolbar - and View → Zoom - accepts values from 10% up to 400%. Magnifying to four times actual size is enough to position small objects precisely; anything beyond that is not offered.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Tab

During a show Tab moves from one hyperlink to the next and Enter follows the selected one, which allows a presentation to be navigated without the mouse.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Layout

The arrangement of placeholders on a slide - where the title sits, whether there is one column of bullets or two, where a picture, table or chart goes - is the slide’s layout, chosen from the Slide Layout task pane. A design governs colours and fonts; a scheme is a set of colours.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The handout master

Headers and footers for printed handouts - and for notes pages - live on the handout master, which also holds the date and page-number placeholders. The slide master governs what appears on the slides themselves, and the title master only the title slide.

Answer: A

Correct answer: 3

PowerPoint 2000 replaced the older set with three views: Normal (the slide, the outline and the notes pane together), Slide Sorter and Slide Show. The outline and slide panes that used to be separate views became parts of Normal view.