MS Word Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: All of the above

The ruler carries the tab stops, the indent markers and the margin boundaries, and each can be dragged directly on it.

Answer: A

Correct answer: switch

A field code may carry optional instructions called switches, introduced by a backslash, which modify how the result is formatted - the date format, the number format, the case of the text.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Times New Roman

The default typeface in Word up to Office 2003 was Times New Roman; Office 2007 replaced it with Calibri.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Auto Correct

AutoCorrect replaces a misspelling as soon as the word is completed, so the error never survives in the document. The spelling checker finds errors after the fact; AutoText inserts stored blocks of text.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Options from Tools menu

Text boundaries are a display setting, so they are switched on and off in Tools > Options, on the View tab. Customize changes toolbars and menus rather than what is displayed in the document.

Answer: D

Correct answer: It applies the Normal style to the selected paragraph

Ctrl + Shift + N applies the Normal style, stripping paragraph-level formatting back to the document default. It is the fastest way to undo a tangle of manual formatting. Its companion is Ctrl + Spacebar, which removes character formatting - bold, italic, colour, size - while leaving the paragraph style intact. Between them the two clear almost any formatting problem. The heading shortcuts belong with them: Ctrl + Alt + 1, 2 and 3 apply Heading 1, 2 and 3, which is much faster than choosing from the Styles gallery and matters because those styles drive the table of contents and the Navigation pane. Ctrl + N, without Shift, creates a new document - which is the second option and the usual confusion. Note that Normal here is a paragraph style, distinct from the Normal.dotm template that supplies the defaults for every new document.

Answer: B

Correct answer: All of above

All three are word processors: WordPerfect and MS Word are the two best known, and Easy Word is a lightweight processor of the same kind.

Answer: A

Correct answer: at the top margin of every page

A header occupies the top margin and repeats on every page; a footer does the same at the bottom. They typically carry the document title, chapter name, page number, date or author. Word allows the repetition to be varied. Different first page suppresses the header on a title page; different odd and even pages gives facing pages distinct headers, as printed books do. Dividing a document into sections allows entirely different headers in different parts - but each new section starts out linked to the previous one, and Link to Previous must be turned off before the header can differ. That single detail accounts for most of the confusion users have with headers. Page numbers inserted in a header are fields, updating automatically as pages are added. The header area is opened by double-clicking in the top margin and closed by double-clicking in the body.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Cancel

Cancel abandons the wizard and leaves the document untouched, which is what the question asks for. Finish would complete the wizard and create the resume; Back and Next only move between panels.

Answer: A

Correct answer: show the differences between two versions of a document

Compare, on the Review tab, takes two versions of a document and produces a third showing every difference as a tracked change, so an original and a revised copy can be reconciled even when Track Changes was never switched on. It is often called a legal blackline for that reason, and it is the standard way to find out what someone actually altered in a returned file. The result opens with the two source documents shown alongside the comparison and a list of revisions, and the changes can then be accepted or rejected in the usual way. Its companion is Combine, on the same menu, which merges the tracked changes of several reviewers into one document while keeping each reviewer’s marks distinct - the tool for consolidating comments from a group. Neither alters the source files. The distinction between the two - Compare for versions, Combine for reviewers - is the point most often examined.