MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Zoom

The notes pane in Normal view is small, so its text is displayed at a reduced percentage and is awkward to read while typing. Raising the Zoom level enlarges the pane on screen without changing the printed size. Slide Show runs the presentation, Insert adds objects, and the slide master governs slide formatting.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

An action button, or any object given an action setting, can be made to run a macro, play a sound, or follow a hyperlink to another slide, file or web page - and it can also run a program or act on an embedded object. All three listed actions are available, on click or on mouse-over.

Answer: A

Correct answer: click the play button

The Custom Animation task pane carries a Play button that runs the selected effects in the editing window, so a motion path can be checked without starting the slide show. Double-clicking the path opens its effect options instead, and there is no “show effect” button.

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: The original file that was inserted is not changed

An inserted picture is copied into the presentation, so cropping, recolouring or resizing it affects only that copy. The file on disk is untouched, whatever is done to the picture or when the file is saved.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Add clip art only if it relates to your topic

Clip art earns its place by carrying meaning: an image that illustrates the point helps the audience follow it, and one that does not merely competes with the speaker for attention. That is why an image is added only when it relates to the topic - not to a quota of one per slide, and not enlarged until it crowds out the text.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Template

A template is a file of ready-made formatting - colour scheme, fonts, background, masters and placeholder positions - that a new presentation can be based on, so the styles need not be built each time. A wizard asks questions and generates content; “auto style” and “pre-formatting” are not PowerPoint terms.

Answer: C

Correct answer: you can insert pictures only

From File browses for an image file. Clip art comes from the gallery through the separate Clip Art command.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of the above

A presentation can carry images in .jpg and .gif and sound in .wav, along with many other formats - all inserted as objects on a slide.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Clicking file open

New presentations are created by the New button, by File > New, or by Ctrl + N. File > Open opens an existing one, which is the opposite operation.