MS Word Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of the above

The insertion point moves within a table by all three means: the arrow keys move by cell in any direction, Tab moves to the next cell and Shift + Tab to the previous one.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Ctrl + Shift + =

Superscript raises text and uses Ctrl + Shift + =, that is Ctrl + plus. Subscript, which lowers it, is the same key without Shift.

Answer: B

Correct answer: 2

A drop cap may be Dropped, set into the paragraph, or In Margin, hanging outside it - two positions, besides None.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Ctrl + A

Ctrl + A selects all - the whole document, including text, images and tables. The distractors are all real shortcuts. Ctrl + S saves; Ctrl + E centres the current paragraph; Ctrl + W closes the document. Other selection methods are worth knowing because they are quicker for smaller units. Double-clicking selects a word and triple-clicking a paragraph. Clicking in the left margin selects a line, dragging there selects several, and triple-clicking there selects the whole document. Holding Shift while clicking extends the selection to that point, and holding Ctrl while dragging selects several separate pieces of text at once. Ctrl + Shift + End selects from the cursor to the end of the document, and Ctrl + Shift + Home to the beginning - both useful for splitting a long document.

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.