MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: .wav files and .mid files

PowerPoint takes two kinds of sound: .wav files, which hold a digitised recording of an actual sound, and .mid (MIDI) files, which hold instructions telling the sound card which notes to play. The .gif and .jpg extensions belong to still images and carry no audio.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The incorrect word has a wavy red line under it

When spelling is checked as you type, a word the dictionary does not recognise is underlined with a wavy red line; right-clicking it offers suggested replacements. The word itself is not re-formatted - changing its case, weight or slant would alter the presentation.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Animation scheme

Ellipse Motion is one of the ready-made animation schemes listed under Slide Show → Animation Schemes, applying a coordinated set of effects to the title and body text of the selected slides. Design templates and colour schemes govern appearance, not movement.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Common tasks toolbar

The Common Tasks toolbar changes according to the master being edited, offering the commands relevant to the slide, title, handout or notes master. The other toolbars stay the same in every view.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Choose either view, slide show or slide show, view show

The presentation is projected full screen by running the show - either View → Slide Show or Slide Show → View Show (F5). Both commands do the same thing. Clicking through slides in Normal view leaves the editing window on screen, and there is no auditorium setting.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Presentation view

PowerPoint’s views are Normal (with its Outline and Slides tabs), Slide Sorter, Notes Page and Slide Show - the classic versions also list Slide view and Outline view separately. There is no view called Presentation view.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The space between the lines of text

Line spacing is the vertical distance between one line of text and the next within a paragraph, set in Format → Line Spacing along with the space before and after each paragraph. The height of a line is a property of the font, and the length of a line is decided by the placeholder’s width.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

Drawing objects can be given gradient fills (as well as texture, pattern and picture fills), have their line colour and style changed, and be rotated or flipped - all from the Drawing toolbar and the Format AutoShape dialog. Since each is a genuine effect, the combined option is correct.

Answer: B

Correct answer: To copy formatting from one object or piece of text and then apply it elsewhere

The Format Painter picks up the formatting - font, size, colour, fill, border - of whatever is selected and applies it to the next thing you click. Double-clicking the button keeps it active so the formatting can be applied several times. It copies appearance only; it draws nothing.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Clicking file open

New presentations are created by the New button, by File > New, or by Ctrl + N. File > Open opens an existing one, which is the opposite operation.