MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: Backspace

Backspace removes the character immediately to the left of the insertion point; Delete removes the one to the right. Page Up and Page Down scroll through the presentation and delete nothing.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Blinks diagonal

PowerPoint’s transitions include Dissolve, Fade Through Black, and the Blinds effects - Blinds Horizontal and Blinds Vertical. There is no diagonal Blinds effect and no transition called Blinks diagonal, so that is the odd one out.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Click File, New, select the presentations tab and choose a template

File → New opens the New Presentation dialog; its Presentations tab lists the content templates supplied with PowerPoint, and choosing one creates a presentation already carrying that design and its suggested slides. The other three commands do not exist.

Answer: C

Correct answer: select File, Save from the menu

A presentation is saved with File → Save - equally the Save button on the Standard toolbar or Ctrl + S. The Windows Start button launches programs, Ctrl + F5 does not save, and the Formatting toolbar carries type controls rather than a Save button.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Click the toolbar’s increase font size button

With the title selected, the Increase Font Size button on the Formatting toolbar steps the type up through the standard sizes at one click each - the quickest way to enlarge it. The Font drop-down changes the typeface rather than the size, and the Format menu has no Title command.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Click the toolbar’s Increase Font Size button

With the title selected, the Increase Font Size button on the Formatting toolbar steps the type up through the standard sizes at one click each. The Font drop-down changes which typeface is used, not how large it is, and there is no Format → Title command in PowerPoint.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Right clicking the current slide

During a slide show the toolbars are hidden. Right-clicking anywhere on the slide raises the show’s shortcut menu, with Next, Previous, Go to Slide, Pointer Options, Screen and End Show. The formatting toolbar is not on screen during a show, so there is no button to click.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Ctrl + M

Ctrl + M inserts a new slide after the current one, the keyboard equivalent of Insert → New Slide. Ctrl + N opens a new presentation and Ctrl + O opens an existing file.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Presentation program

PowerPoint builds and delivers presentations - sequences of slides carrying text, images, charts and animation, projected for an audience. Access is the database program, Excel the spreadsheet, and Word the word processor.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Speaker notes not shown to the audience during the presentation

The Notes pane, beneath the slide in Normal view, holds the speaker’s own notes. They are not shown on screen during a presentation, so they can carry reminders, figures, sources and the wording of a point without cluttering the slide. They are visible to the speaker in Presenter View, which puts the notes, a timer and the next slide on the speaker’s screen while the audience sees only the slide itself - the arrangement that makes notes genuinely useful. They can also be printed. The Notes Pages print layout gives one slide per page with its notes beneath, which is the usual form for a speaker’s script or for a detailed handout. The Notes Master controls how that page is laid out. The second option describes Comments, a separate feature for review, which are attached to a slide and can be replied to and resolved.