MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Zoom

The notes pane in Normal view is small, so its text is displayed at a reduced percentage and is awkward to read while typing. Raising the Zoom level enlarges the pane on screen without changing the printed size. Slide Show runs the presentation, Insert adds objects, and the slide master governs slide formatting.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Insert, new slide

A slide is added to an open presentation from the Insert menu, choosing New Slide (Ctrl + M). File → New starts a fresh presentation and File → Open loads an existing one; the File menu has no command for adding a slide.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Portrait

Slides default to landscape because they are projected on a screen, but notes pages, outlines and handouts are meant for paper, so they default to portrait - taller than they are wide. File → Page Setup sets the two orientations independently.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Landscape

Slides default to landscape - wider than they are tall, 10 × 7.5 inches on the classic 4:3 setting - because that matches the shape of a projection screen. Portrait is available under File → Page Setup but has to be chosen deliberately.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Loop continuously

Slide Show → Set Up Show offers the check box Loop continuously until ‘Esc’. With it ticked the album returns to slide 1 the moment the last slide finishes, so the show runs unattended. Random transitions only vary the effect between slides, and a broadcast streams the show to remote viewers instead of repeating it.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Bullets

The small marks - dots, dashes, squares, arrows - placed before each item of a list are bullets, and PowerPoint applies them automatically in a body text placeholder. Icons and graphics are pictures used for other purposes, and “markers” is not the PowerPoint term.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Menu bar, standard toolbar, formatting toolbar, drawing toolbar, status bar

A fresh PowerPoint window shows the menu bar at the top, the Standard and Formatting toolbars beneath it, the Drawing toolbar along the bottom and the status bar below that. The other choices each leave out one of these five.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Placeholders

The dotted boxes a layout supplies for a title, bulleted text, a chart or a table are called placeholders. They reserve the position and formatting; clicking one and typing fills it. “Auto layouts” are the arrangements of placeholders, not the boxes themselves.

Answer: C

Correct answer: On the insert menu, point the picture and click new photo album

Insert → Picture → New Photo Album takes a whole folder of images at once, puts them on slides at the number per slide you choose, and can add frames and captions - the entire show is built in one dialog. Inserting the pictures one file at a time, or laying them out by hand, does the same work far more slowly.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Open the diagram gallery from the drawing toolbar and choose a diagram type

The Drawing toolbar carries an Insert Diagram or Organization Chart button that opens the Diagram Gallery - organisation chart, cycle, radial, pyramid, Venn and target. Choosing one drops a ready-made, editable diagram onto the slide. Drawing it from AutoShapes works but is slow, and the Chart command produces a data chart instead.