MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Strikethrough

The Font dialog offers Underline, Shadow, Emboss, Superscript and Subscript. Strikethrough is not among them, which is what makes it the answer.

Answer: C

Correct answer: transitions

The effects that introduce each slide are transitions; animations apply to the objects on a slide once it is displayed.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Slides

View > Toolbars lists the toolbars: Control Toolbox, Reviewing, Revisions and the rest. Slides is a tab of the left panel, not a toolbar.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Slide Layout

The Slide Design pane has three parts: Design Templates, Colour Schemes and Animation Schemes. Slide Layout is a separate pane, because it governs the arrangement of content rather than its appearance.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Outline view

Outline view strips the slides down to their text - titles at the left margin, bullet levels indented beneath - so the argument of the deck can be written and re-ordered without any graphics in the way. Pictures, charts and drawn objects do not appear there.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Animations

Slide layouts are composed of placeholders - titles, lists, charts, tables, media. Animation is applied to objects afterwards and is not part of a layout.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Shift + Click each slide

In Slide Sorter view, click the first slide and then Shift + click the others to extend the selection (Shift + click on the last slide of a run picks up everything between). Alt + click does nothing here, and dragging with Shift moves slides rather than selecting them.

Answer: D

Correct answer: a presentation design template

A design template fixes the background, colour scheme, fonts and placeholder positions for the whole presentation, so every slide inherits the same look. A slide layout only arranges the placeholders on one slide, adding a slide creates a slide, and Outline view shows text without affecting appearance.

Answer: A

Correct answer: In the print dialog box, select handout and set the number of slides per page to 3

In the Print dialog, choose Handouts under “Print what” and set 3 slides per page. That layout alone places the thumbnails down the left of the page and prints ruled lines beside each one for the audience to write on. The 2-, 4-, 6- and 9-slide layouts give thumbnails with no lines, and Notes Pages print the speaker’s own notes instead.

Answer: C

Correct answer: It controls the layout, fonts and colours of every slide based on it

The Slide Master holds the design that every slide inherits - background, fonts, colours, placeholder positions, bullet styles, and any logo or element to appear throughout. Changing it changes every slide at once. That central control is its whole point. Formatting fifty slides by hand gives fifty independent settings that drift apart; editing the master gives one. Beneath the master sit layouts - Title Slide, Title and Content, Two Content, Blank and others - each of which can be customised separately, and each slide uses one of them. A deck may also contain several masters, which is how two visual styles are combined in one file. It is reached from View, then Slide Master, and closed with Close Master View. The Handout Master and Notes Master control the printed forms in the same way. Working through the master rather than slide by slide is the single biggest saving of effort in PowerPoint.