MS Word Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: doc

Word 97 to 2003 saved documents as .doc; .dot is a template and .txt plain text.

Answer: A

Correct answer: 3

A document can be saved in three ways: the Save command on the File menu, the Save button on the toolbar, and the shortcut Ctrl + S.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Press Esc to disable

F8 turns extended selection on, and Esc turns it off - the usual key for cancelling a mode. Pressing F8 again would extend the selection further rather than end it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of above

A drop cap is an enlarged first letter set into the opening lines of a paragraph. It is a matter of size and position, not of case, so it is not the same as small caps, title case or all caps.

Answer: D

Correct answer: the first line starts further left than the rest of the paragraph

In a hanging indent the first line begins at the left margin and every subsequent line is indented, so the first line appears to hang out to the left of the block. It is the standard format for bibliographies and reference lists, where the author’s surname must stand clear so the list can be scanned alphabetically. It is also what produces the alignment of bulleted and numbered lists, where the text of a wrapped line lines up under the text above rather than under the bullet. Its opposite is the first-line indent, described by the third option, in which the first line alone is indented - the traditional way of marking a new paragraph in printed prose. Both are set from the ruler, where separate triangular markers control the first line and the rest, or from the Paragraph dialogue under Special. The shortcut Ctrl + T creates a hanging indent and Ctrl + Shift + T removes it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Moves the cursor to the beginning of Document

Ctrl + Home jumps to the very start of the document. Home alone goes only to the start of the current line.

Answer: D

Correct answer: To set margins, indents and tab stops

The Ruler shows the width of the text area and provides direct control over margins, indents and tab stops. It is displayed from the View tab. Four markers appear on the horizontal ruler and each does something different. The upper triangle sets the first-line indent; the lower triangle sets the hanging indent, which affects every line except the first; the small rectangle beneath moves both together as the left indent; and the triangle at the right sets the right indent. Tab stops are set by clicking on the ruler, and the box at its left end cycles through the types - left, centre, right, decimal and bar. The decimal tab is the one to use for columns of figures, since it aligns the decimal points however many digits precede them. The grey areas at each end represent the page margins, which can be dragged directly.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Line Style

The weight of a line is chosen from the Line Style settings, where thickness is one of the properties along with dash pattern and cap. The other three names are not commands in Word.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Case sensitive

Passwords are case sensitive: an upper-case letter is a different character from the lower-case one, which is part of what makes a mixed-case password harder to guess.

Answer: C

Correct answer: a single last line of a paragraph appearing alone at the top of a page

A widow is the last line of a paragraph stranded alone at the top of the following page. Its counterpart, an orphan, is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the bottom of a page. Both are considered typographic faults because a lone line looks disconnected from the rest of its paragraph. The usual mnemonic is that a widow is left behind at the top and an orphan is left behind at the bottom - though the two names are so often swapped that it is worth checking which a source means. Word prevents both by default: Widow/Orphan control is switched on in the Paragraph dialogue under Line and Page Breaks, and it pushes an extra line over so that at least two appear together. The same panel holds related controls: Keep with next holds a heading on the same page as the text it introduces, Keep lines together prevents a paragraph splitting at all, and Page break before forces a new page.