MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

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: Loop continuously

Slide Show → Set Up Show offers the check box Loop continuously until ‘Esc’. With it ticked the album returns to slide 1 the moment the last slide finishes, so the show runs unattended. Random transitions only vary the effect between slides, and a broadcast streams the show to remote viewers instead of repeating it.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Right click, point to go on the shortcut menu, point to by title, and click the slide you want to go to

Right-clicking during a running show raises its shortcut menu; Go → By Title lists every slide by name, and clicking one jumps straight there without leaving the show. Pressing Esc would end the show, and Backspace steps back one slide at a time.

Answer: C

Correct answer: transitions

The effects that introduce each slide are transitions; animations apply to the objects on a slide once it is displayed.

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: B

Correct answer: Rehearse timings button

Slide Show → Rehearse Timings runs the presentation with a timer; the seconds you spend on each slide are recorded and saved as that slide’s advance time, so the show can then run itself. The Slide Transition pane can also hold a manual figure, but the button that records the times is Rehearse Timings.

Answer: B

Correct answer: An item on the slide that performs an action when clicked

A trigger ties an animation to an object: the effect runs when that object is clicked, rather than in the ordinary sequence. That is how an interactive slide is built.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Edit the slide master

A background placed on the slide master appears on every slide that follows it, and any slide added later inherits it too. Applying it slide by slide would leave new slides untouched.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Print Preview

Print Preview is a printing view, not a slide layout. It shows how the slides or handouts will appear on paper and is reached through File, then Print. The standard layouts supplied with a theme are Title Slide, Title and Content, Section Header, Two Content, Comparison, Title Only, Blank, Content with Caption and Picture with Caption. Each defines a different arrangement of placeholders. A layout is chosen when a slide is created, from the New Slide dropdown, and changed afterwards from Layout on the Home tab. Changing it rearranges the placeholders while keeping the content. Layouts are defined in the Slide Master and can be edited or new ones created there, which is how an organisation builds a house template. Reset on the Home tab restores placeholders that have been moved or resized back to their positions in the layout - the quickest way to tidy a slide that has been fiddled with.

Answer: C

Correct answer: WAV files

.wav is an audio format: it stores a digitised recording of sound that PowerPoint can attach to a slide, an animation or a transition. LOG files hold program records, DAT files are generic data, and DRV files are device drivers - none of them carry sound.