MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: sans serif fonts

Titles are read at a glance and at large sizes, where the small strokes of a serif face add clutter. A clean sans serif - Arial, Helvetica, Verdana - keeps the letterforms crisp on screen and from the back of a room. Serifs come into their own in long passages of small text, not headlines.

Answer: C

Correct answer: another slide, a file, or a web page

A hyperlink in PowerPoint, inserted with Ctrl + K, can point to a web page, an existing file, an email address, a new document, or another slide in the same presentation. That last option is what makes non-linear presentations possible. A menu slide with links to sections lets a speaker jump directly to whichever part the audience asks about, rather than clicking through everything in between - and Action Buttons, on the Shapes menu, provide ready-made back, forward and home controls for the same purpose. Links can be attached to text or to any object, including shapes and images. The Action settings, on the Insert tab, go further: they can trigger a link on mouse over rather than on click, run a program or play a sound. A practical caution: a link to a file uses a path that breaks if the presentation is moved to another machine, so anything essential should be embedded rather than linked.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

The Common Tasks button collects the three things done most often when building a deck: applying a design template, inserting a new slide, and choosing a different slide layout. All three sit on the same menu, so the combined option is correct.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Are the same, except that in a list box the bullets are enabled

Both are simply frames that hold typed text, created and formatted in the same way; the only difference is that the list box has its bullet formatting switched on, so each paragraph is preceded by a bullet. A list can therefore be built in an ordinary text box just by turning bullets on, which is why the claim that it cannot be is wrong.

Answer: D

Correct answer: all of the above

Auto ClipArt follows the words you type, so it both suggests and places clip art in the presentation and checks the text - on the slides and in WordArt objects - while doing so. Each statement describes part of what the feature does, so the combined option is the right one.

Answer: A

Correct answer: From Insert menu choose Slides from Files

Slides from Files opens the Slide Finder, which lists the slides in another presentation so that any of them can be brought in, taking on the current design.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

The New Presentation pane offers all three routes: a blank presentation, one based on a design template, and one built from an existing presentation.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Title

The handout master holds the placeholders that appear on every printed handout page: the header, the footer, the date and the slide (page) number, arranged around the slide thumbnails. There is no title placeholder, because a handout page carries slide images rather than a title of its own.

Answer: A

Correct answer: You can insert text boxes from drawing toolbar in PowerPoint

The Text Box tool on the Drawing toolbar adds a box anywhere on the slide, so text is not confined to the placeholders the layout provides.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .ppsx

A file saved as .ppsx - PowerPoint Show - opens straight into the slide show rather than into the editing window. It is what to send when the recipient should simply watch the presentation. It is not protected: the file can still be opened for editing from within PowerPoint, so it is a convenience rather than a security measure. The related extensions follow a consistent pattern, and the set is worth learning. .pptx is an ordinary presentation. .potx is a template, which creates a new presentation based on it rather than opening itself. .ppsx is a show. The macro-enabled forms add an m - .pptm, .potm, .ppsm - and are kept separate for security, since the plain formats cannot carry macros at all. The older binary equivalents were .ppt, .pot and .pps. Exporting to .pdf or to a video is the option where the recipient may not have PowerPoint.