MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Master Slide

Slide Design, Slide Layout and Slide Transition are all task panes. The slide master is reached through View > Master and is a view rather than a pane.

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of above

The New Presentation pane offers all three routes: a blank presentation, one based on a design template, and one built from an existing presentation.

Answer: A

Correct answer: 4

The Slide Layout pane's Text Layouts section holds four: title only, title and text, title and two-column text, and the blank title slide.

Answer: B

Correct answer: If you choose to select from the pre-made slide layouts, you cannot change the layout

A layout can be changed at any time simply by choosing another from the pane; the placeholders rearrange and the content stays. The other statements are true.

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.

Answer: B

Correct answer: group slides into named blocks that can be collapsed and moved together

Sections group slides into named blocks. A section can be collapsed to a single heading, expanded again, moved as a unit, or removed with all its slides. They are added by right-clicking between two slides in the thumbnail pane or in Slide Sorter view and choosing Add Section. Their value grows with the length of a deck. A presentation of eighty slides is unmanageable as a flat list; divided into six named sections it can be reordered wholesale, and collapsing the sections not being worked on makes navigation immediate. They also help when several people contribute, since each can own a section. Sections appear in Presenter View, so a speaker can jump to a named part rather than hunting by thumbnail. They are purely organisational and have no effect on the presentation as the audience sees it - unlike Hide Slide, which changes what is shown, or a Custom Show, which defines a subset of slides to present.

Answer: D

Correct answer: apply themes, colour schemes and background styles to the presentation

The Design tab controls the appearance of the presentation as a whole: themes, which set a coordinated combination of fonts, colours and effects; variants of each theme; slide size, choosing between 16:9 widescreen and the older 4:3; and Format Background, for fills, gradients and pictures. A theme is more than a look. It defines a palette of named colours - accent 1 through 6, plus text and background - and charts, SmartArt and shapes draw from those names rather than from fixed values, so changing the theme restyles everything consistently. Using theme colours rather than picking arbitrary ones is what makes a deck cohere. Designer, on the same tab, proposes layouts for the content already on a slide. Knowing which tab holds which tool is worth a little effort: Insert holds objects, Transitions and Animations hold motion, Review holds spelling and comments, and View holds the masters.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Slide Transition

A transition is the effect played as one slide leaves and the next arrives. Animation applies to the objects on a slide while it is displayed.

Answer: D

Correct answer: all of above

A design template can be applied to the current slide, to every slide in the presentation, or set as the default for new presentations.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Slide Design does not provide sample content but Auto Content Wizard provides

Both produce a formatted presentation, but the AutoContent Wizard also supplies suggested slides and text for the kind of presentation chosen, which the designer then replaces. Slide Design changes appearance only.