MS Word Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Ctrl+A

A for All: Ctrl + A selects the entire document.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Subscript

Ctrl + = applies subscript. Adding Shift - making it Ctrl + plus - gives superscript.

Answer: D

Correct answer: is a grid organized in columns and rows

A table is by definition a grid of rows and columns. The other three statements are true of tables but describe what can be done with one rather than what it is.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Ctrl + J

Ctrl + J justifies a paragraph, aligning the text flush with both the left and the right margins by adjusting the spacing between words. The four alignment shortcuts belong together and are worth learning as a set: Ctrl + L for left, Ctrl + E for centre, Ctrl + R for right and Ctrl + J for justify. Only the centre shortcut is not the initial of its own name, which is what makes it the one most often forgotten. Justification is the standard alignment for books, newspapers and formal reports, since even margins look orderly. Its drawback is uneven word spacing, which produces visible white channels down the page called rivers, especially in narrow columns. Turning on hyphenation reduces the effect. Left alignment, with its ragged right edge, keeps word spacing constant and is generally easier to read on screen.

Answer: D

Correct answer: font

A font, or typeface, is the design that gives every character its shape. Size is measured separately in points, and paragraph formatting governs arrangement rather than letterform.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Marking a location so it can be returned to or referred to later

A bookmark names a location or a selection so that it can be jumped to with Ctrl + G, linked to with a hyperlink, or referred to by a cross-reference. Bookmarks are invisible unless their display is switched on in Word’s options. Their real usefulness is in cross-references. Marking a table with a bookmark allows the text to say see Table 3 on page 12, with both the number and the page updating automatically if anything moves. Doing the same by hand guarantees the reference will eventually be wrong. They are also used by field codes and by mail merge, and a bookmark spanning a range can be referred to so that its whole content is repeated elsewhere. A bookmark name may contain letters, digits and underscores but no spaces, which is a small practical constraint. The fourth option describes the Text Highlight Colour tool, a formatting feature with no navigational function.

Answer: C

Correct answer: To begin a paragraph with a large dropped initial capital letter

A drop cap is an oversized first letter set into the first few lines of a paragraph, a device inherited from printing. It applies to one letter of one paragraph, not to every capital in the document.

Answer: A

Correct answer: To limit what changes other people may make to a document

Restrict Editing, on the Review tab, controls what may be done to a document. It offers three kinds of restriction: limiting formatting to a chosen set of styles, limiting editing to comments only, tracked changes only, filling in forms, or no changes at all, and granting exceptions so that named users may edit particular regions. Protection is applied with an optional password. Without one the restriction can be lifted by anyone, so it serves as a guard against accidental change rather than as security. It is the mechanism behind fillable forms: setting the document to Filling in forms locks everything except the form fields. The distractors describe other features. File size is reduced by compressing images. Printing is not separately preventable in Word. Ribbon customisation is a per-user setting rather than a document property. For genuine confidentiality, Encrypt with Password under File, Info is the stronger option.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Translates source code from a high level programming language to machine code

A compiler translates a whole high level program into the machine code the processor executes, before it is run.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Telecommunications

Twisted pair is the cable of the telephone network, and the twisting is what cancels the interference each wire would otherwise pick up. It is also used for LAN cabling, which grew out of the same technology.