MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: click the play button

The Custom Animation task pane carries a Play button that runs the selected effects in the editing window, so a motion path can be checked without starting the slide show. Double-clicking the path opens its effect options instead, and there is no “show effect” button.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Clicking the object command on the insert menu

Insert → Object lists the object types that can be embedded, MS Organization Chart among them; choosing it drops the chart into the slide and opens it for editing. The Edit menu holds cut, copy and paste rather than object insertion, and the New Slide button only adds a slide.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Dragging

Pressing the left button, moving the mouse and then releasing it is called dragging. What it achieves depends on where the drag begins: on an object it moves it, on a sizing handle it resizes it, on blank slide area it sweeps out a selection rectangle. Moving and selecting are outcomes of a drag, not names for the action.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Common tasks toolbar

The Common Tasks toolbar changes its contents with the view, so in Slide Master, Title Master, Handout Master and Notes Master view it offers the commands that belong to that master. The Standard, Formatting and Drawing toolbars keep the same buttons whichever view is on screen.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Select the slide in slide sorter view, right click and choose preset animations from the shortcut menu

In Slide Sorter view, right-clicking a slide raises a shortcut menu that includes Preset Animation, so an effect can be applied to the selected slides without opening any dialog. There is no Format → Animation command, and PowerPoint certainly does have animation.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .ppsx

A file saved as .ppsx - PowerPoint Show - opens straight into the slide show rather than into the editing window. It is what to send when the recipient should simply watch the presentation. It is not protected: the file can still be opened for editing from within PowerPoint, so it is a convenience rather than a security measure. The related extensions follow a consistent pattern, and the set is worth learning. .pptx is an ordinary presentation. .potx is a template, which creates a new presentation based on it rather than opening itself. .ppsx is a show. The macro-enabled forms add an m - .pptm, .potm, .ppsm - and are kept separate for security, since the plain formats cannot carry macros at all. The older binary equivalents were .ppt, .pot and .pps. Exporting to .pdf or to a video is the option where the recipient may not have PowerPoint.

Answer: B

Correct answer: sans serif fonts

Titles are read at a glance and at large sizes, where the small finishing strokes of a serif face only add clutter. A clean sans serif - Arial, Helvetica, Verdana - keeps the letterforms crisp on screen and legible from the back of a room. Serifs earn their keep in long passages of small text, not in headlines.