MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Outline view shows only text from the slides.

In PowerPoint 2003 the outline view lists the titles and body text of every slide as a structured outline, so the content can be written and reorganised without the slide layout. Pictures, charts and other objects are not shown in it.

Images of the slides are what slide sorter view and the thumbnails show. The final presentation with effects is slide show view. Normal view is the one with three panes: the outline or slides tab, the slide itself and the notes pane.

Answer: A

Action buttons are used to facilitate navigation between slides.

Action buttons are ready-made shapes in PowerPoint, such as Next, Previous, Home and End, to which an action is attached. Clicking one during a slide show jumps to another slide, which makes them useful for non-linear and self-running presentations.

Media clips are added through the Insert menu, and animations are controlled through Custom Animation. Pack and Go is a separate wizard that packages a presentation for use on another computer. An action button can be set to play a sound or run a program, but its standard purpose is navigation.

Answer: A

A new slide is inserted with Ctrl + M.

In PowerPoint, Ctrl + M adds a new slide after the current one, using the layout of the slide you are on.

Ctrl + N creates a new presentation (a new file, not a new slide), Ctrl + S saves the presentation, and Ctrl + P opens the print options.

Answer: D

The key's answer is None of these: all three are available.

PowerPoint's File, Export page offers Create a Video and Create an Animated GIF (in Microsoft 365), along with Create PDF/XPS Document, Package Presentation for CD, Create Handouts and Change File Type. When Adobe Acrobat is installed, its add-in also places Create Adobe PDF on the Export page, which is the setting the paper assumes.

So the key treats each of the three named options as available, and none as missing.

Answer: D

The answer is None of these: all three are available.

PowerPoint's Change Case button (Home tab, Font group, Aa) offers five choices: Sentence case., lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word and tOGGLE cASE.

Toggle Case, Capitalize each word and Sentence Case are all in that list, so none of them is missing.

Answer: C

The one that is not a presentation view is Print.

PowerPoint's View tab lists its presentation views: Normal, Outline View, Slide Sorter, Notes Page and Reading View, besides Slide Show.

Notes page and Outline are both views. Print is a command on the File menu, with its own preview, not a view of the presentation, and since one option is not a view, 'None of these' is wrong.

Answer: D

The answer is All of these.

In PowerPoint, Insert, Header & Footer opens a dialog whose Slide tab has check boxes for Date and time (fixed or updating automatically), Slide number and Footer text, plus an option not to show them on the title slide.

Since all three items are in that dialog, choosing only one of them is incomplete.

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: D

Correct answer: A named subset of slides from the presentation, shown as a separate sequence

A Custom Show is a named selection of slides from a presentation, played in an order you define, without the slides being deleted or reordered in the file itself. It solves a practical problem: the same deck must be given as a ten-minute overview to one audience and a forty-minute account to another. Rather than keeping two files that drift apart, one file holds every slide and two custom shows draw on it. It is created from the Slide Show tab under Custom Slide Show, and a show can be started from there or linked to with a hyperlink - which allows a menu slide offering several routes through the same material. A slide may appear in several custom shows, and its content is stored once. The related tools serve different purposes: Hide Slide skips individual slides in the main sequence, and Sections group slides for editing rather than for presenting.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .wav files and .mid files

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