MS Word Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: the number of spelling errors

Word Count reports pages, words, characters with and without spaces, paragraphs and lines. It does not report spelling errors - that is the job of the spelling checker, which is a separate tool on the same Review tab. The running word count appears in the status bar at the bottom of the window, and the full dialogue is opened by clicking it or from the Review tab. A detail worth knowing: selecting text before opening it counts only the selection, which is how a single section is measured. The dialogue also has a checkbox for Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes, which is off by default - so a document with substantial footnotes will report a lower count than expected until it is ticked. The two character counts differ by exactly the number of spaces, and publishers and examinations use one or the other, so it is worth checking which is meant.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Menu bar

The menu bar sits under the title bar and holds the named menus - File, Edit, View - each grouping commands by category. The toolbar holds buttons rather than categories, and the status bar sits at the foot of the window.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Ctrl + C

Ctrl + C copies the selection to the clipboard, leaving the original in place. The clipboard trio belongs together: Ctrl + X cuts, removing the selection and placing it on the clipboard; Ctrl + C copies; and Ctrl + V pastes. The letters were chosen for their position on the keyboard rather than for any mnemonic value, which is why they must simply be learned. Office keeps a clipboard history of up to 24 items, opened from the small arrow at the corner of the Clipboard group, so an earlier copy can be retrieved. Paste Special, Ctrl + Alt + V, is the one worth knowing beyond the basics: it offers to paste unformatted text, which strips the formatting of the source and is the standard remedy for text pasted from a web page. Ctrl + Z undoes, and is a different operation altogether.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Word Wrap

Word wrap moves text to the next line automatically when it reaches the right margin, which is why a carriage return is needed only at the end of a paragraph.

Answer: B

Correct answer: To quickly jump to a specific location in the document

A bookmark names a place so that it can be returned to with Go To, and so that cross-references and hyperlinks elsewhere in the document can point at it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of above

Save is not on any of the ribbon tabs: it lives on the Quick Access Toolbar and in the Office button or File menu, because it is a file command rather than a content command. Home, Insert and Review hold commands that act on the document's contents.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of these

Ctrl + R right-aligns the selected paragraph in Word. Refreshing a page is a browser command, and closing a window is Ctrl + W.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Page Setup from File menu

Justifying text over the height of the page is vertical alignment, which is a page property and is set on the Layout tab of Page Setup. The Paragraph dialog governs horizontal alignment only.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Page Orientation can be change at any time

Orientation is a page setup property of the document and can be changed at any point, before or after typing, and even for one section only. It is not fixed by the printer, and nothing has to be decided in advance.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Format

Typeface is a formatting property, so it is changed from the Format menu. Edit holds cut, copy and paste, and Tools the utilities.