MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

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: C

Correct answer: Click Start >> Run then type powerpnt then press Enter

The executable is powerpnt.exe, without the second o, so typing powerpnt in the Run box starts it. ppoint.exe does not exist.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Rehearse timings button

Slide Show → Rehearse Timings runs the presentation with a timer; the seconds you spend on each slide are recorded and saved as that slide’s advance time, so the show can then run itself. The Slide Transition pane can also hold a manual figure, but the button that records the times is Rehearse Timings.

Answer: B

Correct answer: An item on the slide that performs an action when clicked

A trigger ties an animation to an object: the effect runs when that object is clicked, rather than in the ordinary sequence. That is how an interactive slide is built.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Edit the slide master

A background placed on the slide master appears on every slide that follows it, and any slide added later inherits it too. Applying it slide by slide would leave new slides untouched.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Print Preview

Print Preview is a printing view, not a slide layout. It shows how the slides or handouts will appear on paper and is reached through File, then Print. The standard layouts supplied with a theme are Title Slide, Title and Content, Section Header, Two Content, Comparison, Title Only, Blank, Content with Caption and Picture with Caption. Each defines a different arrangement of placeholders. A layout is chosen when a slide is created, from the New Slide dropdown, and changed afterwards from Layout on the Home tab. Changing it rearranges the placeholders while keeping the content. Layouts are defined in the Slide Master and can be edited or new ones created there, which is how an organisation builds a house template. Reset on the Home tab restores placeholders that have been moved or resized back to their positions in the layout - the quickest way to tidy a slide that has been fiddled with.

Answer: C

Correct answer: WAV files

.wav is an audio format: it stores a digitised recording of sound that PowerPoint can attach to a slide, an animation or a transition. LOG files hold program records, DAT files are generic data, and DRV files are device drivers - none of them carry sound.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Dragging

Pressing the left button, moving the mouse and releasing it is called dragging. What the drag achieves depends on where it starts: on an object it moves the object, on a handle it resizes it, on empty slide area it sweeps out a selection rectangle. Selecting is one result of a drag, not the name of the action.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The text box and text both are deleted

A text box is a single object, and its text is its content, so deleting the object removes both. Emptying the box without deleting it requires selecting the text instead.

Answer: D

Correct answer: A box on a slide layout reserved for text or other content

A placeholder is a box defined on a slide layout, reserved to receive a title, body text, a picture, a chart or a table. It is what shows the prompt “Click to add title” on a new slide. Using placeholders rather than free-floating text boxes matters for three reasons. Their position and formatting come from the Slide Master, so slides stay consistent and can be restyled centrally. Text typed into a title placeholder appears in Outline View and in the navigation, where text-box content does not. And screen readers follow the placeholder order, so accessibility depends on them. The layout chosen for a slide determines which placeholders it has, and Reset on the Home tab restores any that have been moved or resized back to their defined positions. An empty placeholder is not printed or shown during a presentation, so one left unfilled does nothing visible - unlike an empty text box, which may leave stray formatting.