MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Dragging

Pressing the left button, moving the mouse and then releasing it is called dragging. What it achieves depends on where the drag begins: on an object it moves it, on a sizing handle it resizes it, on blank slide area it sweeps out a selection rectangle. Moving and selecting are outcomes of a drag, not names for the action.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

PowerPoint is used for all three: outlines for teaching, student project presentations, and the communication of plans in an organisation.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Clipart, From Files, AutoShapes

Insert > Picture offers Clip Art, From File and AutoShapes, along with organisation chart and WordArt in some versions.

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: C

Correct answer: Ctrl + Home

Ctrl + Home jumps to the beginning of the presentation, and Ctrl + End to the last slide. Page Up and the Previous Slide button move back only one slide at a time.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Ctrl + M

Ctrl + M inserts a new slide after the current one, using the same layout unless the previous slide was a title slide, in which case it uses Title and Content. The distractors are all real shortcuts doing something else, and the confusion between them is what the question tests. Ctrl + N creates a new presentation, not a new slide. Ctrl + S saves. Ctrl + D duplicates the selected slide, which is often what is actually wanted when a slide is to be built on the last one. The related shortcuts complete the set: Ctrl + Shift + D also duplicates, Delete removes a selected slide in the thumbnail pane, and Ctrl + Z undoes. Choosing the layout explicitly is done from the New Slide dropdown rather than the shortcut, and it is worth doing - picking the right layout at the start saves rearranging placeholders afterwards.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Placeholders

The dotted boxes a layout supplies for a title, bulleted text, a chart or a table are called placeholders. They reserve the position and formatting; clicking one and typing fills it. “Auto layouts” are the arrangements of placeholders, not the boxes themselves.

Answer: D

Correct answer: a presentation design template

A design template sets the fonts, colours, background and layout for the whole presentation at once, so every slide follows the same appearance.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Linking a slide transition with a laser pointer

PowerPoint prints transparencies, prints speaker notes alongside slide images, and lets the presenter annotate a running show with the pen. There is no facility for tying a slide transition to a laser pointer, so that is the one thing on the list PowerPoint cannot do.

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.