MS Word Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: A part with its own page layout settings

A section is a part of a document with its own page setup - margins, orientation, paper size, columns, headers, footers, page numbering, line numbers and borders. Sections are created by inserting section breaks from the Layout tab. Every document has at least one section, even if no break has ever been inserted. The four kinds of break differ in where the new section starts. Next Page begins on a new page; Continuous begins on the same page, which is how a multi-column block is placed within a single-column document; Even Page and Odd Page begin on the next page of that parity, as printed chapters do. The detail that causes most difficulty is that a new section starts out linked to the previous one for headers and footers, so Link to Previous must be turned off before they can differ. Deleting a section break merges the sections, and the text takes the formatting of the section that followed.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Misspelled

AutoCorrect was built to catch common typing errors - teh for the - and fix them as soon as the word is finished. Expanding abbreviations and inserting symbols came later.

Answer: B

Correct answer: doc

Word 97 to 2003 saved documents as .doc; .dot is a template and .txt plain text.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Format Columns

Newspaper columns, in which text flows down one column and continues at the top of the next, are set with Format > Columns. A table keeps each cell separate and text does not flow between them.

Answer: A

Correct answer: draws a horizontal line through the middle of the characters

Strikethrough draws a line through the middle of the characters, marking them as deleted or superseded while leaving them readable. Its shortcut is Ctrl + D followed by the checkbox in the Font dialogue, and it also has a button in the Font group. It is used in drafting and in legal work, where deleted wording must remain visible so that the change can be seen. Track Changes uses the same effect to show deletions, though that is applied automatically rather than by hand. Double strikethrough is a separate option in the Font dialogue. The other options describe different features. Deleting text is done with the Delete key. Double underline is applied with Ctrl + Shift + D. Small capitals, Ctrl + Shift + K, renders lower-case letters as smaller capitals and is used in headings and in some styles of citation. None of these alters the underlying characters, so text remains searchable however it is formatted.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Moves the cursor one Page Down

Page Down alone scrolls by one screenful, which depends on the window size; adding Ctrl moves to the next page of the document, which does not.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Reverses the last action; Ctrl + Z

Undo reverses the most recent action, and its shortcut is Ctrl + Z. Pressing it repeatedly steps back through a history of actions, and the arrow beside the Undo button on the Quick Access Toolbar shows that list so several steps can be undone at once. Its counterpart is Redo, Ctrl + Y, which restores an action that has just been undone. A subtlety worth knowing: when there is nothing to redo, Ctrl + Y performs Repeat instead, applying the last action again elsewhere - which is a fast way to apply the same formatting to several places. F4 does the same. Undo has limits. It does not reverse saving, and once a document is closed the history is lost. Ctrl + X cuts the selection to the clipboard, which is a different operation and is itself undoable.

Answer: C

Correct answer: shift

Clicking marks one end of the selection and Shift-clicking marks the other, selecting everything between. Ctrl-clicking would begin a second, separate selection instead.

Answer: B

Correct answer: .docx

The default extension is .docx, introduced with Word 2007. The x marks it as XML-based: the file is in fact a compressed archive containing XML parts describing the text, formatting and embedded objects. That structure has real advantages over the older binary .doc. Files are smaller because the archive is compressed, damaged files are more often recoverable because the parts are separate, and the format is an open standard rather than a proprietary one. Related extensions follow the same pattern: .dotx for a template, .docm for a macro-enabled document, and .dotm for a macro-enabled template. The separation of macro-enabled formats is a security measure - a plain .docx cannot carry macros at all. .txt is plain text with no formatting, and .rtf is Rich Text Format, an older interchange format readable by almost any word processor.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Subdual

An AutoCorrect entry replaces its name as soon as it is typed, so the name must be something no one would ever write on purpose. Subdual is that; Regret is a word in ordinary use and would be replaced every time it appeared.