MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: sans serif fonts

Titles are read at a glance and at large sizes, where the small strokes of a serif face add clutter. A clean sans serif - Arial, Helvetica, Verdana - keeps the letterforms crisp on screen and from the back of a room. Serifs come into their own in long passages of small text, not headlines.

Answer: A

Correct answer: serif fonts

In a long passage the serifs - the small finishing strokes on each letter - give the words distinctive outlines and lead the eye along the line, so a serif face such as Times or Garamond is easier to read at length. Sans serif faces are better for short text at large sizes, such as headings.

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.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Rehearse timing button

Slide Show → Rehearse Timings runs the presentation with a timer visible; the time you spend on each slide is recorded and saved as that slide’s advance time, so the show can then run unattended. The Slide Transition pane can hold a figure typed by hand, but the command that records the timings is Rehearse Timings.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Presentation view

PowerPoint’s views are Normal (with its Outline and Slides tabs), Slide Sorter, Notes Page and Slide Show - the classic versions also list Slide view and Outline view separately. There is no view called Presentation view.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Slide sorter view

Slide Sorter view shows every slide as a thumbnail and puts the transition controls on its own toolbar, so you can select all the slides, apply one transition, and see the transition icon appear beneath each thumbnail. The other views show only one slide at a time.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Slide sorter view

Slide Sorter view shows all the slides as thumbnails and puts the transition controls on its toolbar, so you can select every slide, apply one transition and see the effect indicator appear under each. Slide view shows one slide at a time, Outline view shows only text, and Notes Pages view is for speaker notes.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Rehearsal

Slide Show → Rehearse Timings starts a rehearsal: the show runs with a stopwatch on screen and the seconds spent on each slide are stored as its advance time. Set Up Show only decides whether those stored timings are used; “Slider Timings” and “Slider Timer” are not PowerPoint commands.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The esc key

Esc ends the slide show and returns to the editing view, so it is the one key here that does not move the show forward. The spacebar, the Enter key and a mouse click all advance to the next slide or the next animation step.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Click Insert, Slides from Outline

Insert → Slides from Outline reads a Word document and turns its heading levels into slides: each Heading 1 becomes a slide title and the lower headings become the bullet levels beneath it. There is no Import menu in PowerPoint, and the New Presentation pane has no Word-headings entry.