MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Templates

A design that fixes the colour scheme, fonts, background and placeholder positions for a whole presentation is a template (a design template, saved with a .pot extension in the classic versions). Placeholders are the individual boxes on a slide; “design plates” and “blueprints” are not PowerPoint terms.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Select the slide in slide sorter view, right click and choose preset animations from the shortcut menu

In Slide Sorter view, right-clicking a slide raises a shortcut menu that includes Preset Animation, so an effect can be applied to the selected slides without opening any dialog. There is no Format → Animation command, and PowerPoint certainly does have animation.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Clicking the insert new slide button on the standard toolbar, then double click the organization chart auto layout

Adding a slide and choosing the organization chart auto layout gives a slide with a chart placeholder; double-clicking it starts the chart editor with a starter chart in place. The MS Organization Chart button is not on either toolbar by default, and the Edit menu has no object-insertion command.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Slide master

Anything placed on the slide master - a logo, a rule, a background graphic - is inherited by every slide that uses that master, in the same position, automatically. The handout and notes masters affect only printed handouts and notes pages, so a logo added there never appears on screen.

Answer: B

Correct answer: For each new slide, select a layout from the Slide Layout task pane

Layout is decided slide by slide: as each new slide is added, the Slide Layout task pane offers the ready-made arrangements of title, text, content and chart placeholders, and clicking one applies it. The Slide Design pane sets the overall look rather than the arrangement, and the masters govern the elements common to every slide, not the layout of an individual one.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .wav files and .mid files

PowerPoint takes two kinds of sound: .wav files, which hold a digitised recording of an actual sound, and .mid (MIDI) files, which hold instructions telling the sound card which notes to play. The .gif and .jpg extensions belong to still images and carry no audio.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The incorrect word has a wavy red line under it

When spelling is checked as you type, a word the dictionary does not recognise is underlined with a wavy red line; right-clicking it offers suggested replacements. The word itself is not re-formatted - changing its case, weight or slant would alter the presentation.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Animation scheme

Ellipse Motion is one of the ready-made animation schemes listed under Slide Show → Animation Schemes, applying a coordinated set of effects to the title and body text of the selected slides. Design templates and colour schemes govern appearance, not movement.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Common tasks toolbar

The Common Tasks toolbar changes according to the master being edited, offering the commands relevant to the slide, title, handout or notes master. The other toolbars stay the same in every view.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Choose either view, slide show or slide show, view show

The presentation is projected full screen by running the show - either View → Slide Show or Slide Show → View Show (F5). Both commands do the same thing. Clicking through slides in Normal view leaves the editing window on screen, and there is no auditorium setting.