MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: apply an animation scheme

An animation scheme is a ready-made set of coordinated effects that can be applied to the selected slides - or to all of them - in one click, which is by far the quickest way to animate text across a deck. The Custom Animation pane gives finer control but has to be set up effect by effect.

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: D

Correct answer: A and c

A Word table is embedded either by adding a slide with the table layout - the New Slide button, then double-clicking the table placeholder - or by clicking the Insert Microsoft Word Table button on the Standard toolbar and dragging out the grid. That button sits on the Standard toolbar, not the Formatting toolbar, which is why the second statement is wrong.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Click Start >> Run then type powerpnt then press Enter

The executable is powerpnt.exe, without the second o, so typing powerpnt in the Run box starts it. ppoint.exe does not exist.

Answer: A

Correct answer: .wav files and .mid files

The two sound formats PowerPoint handles directly are .wav, which holds recorded audio, and .mid, which holds instructions for a synthesiser. The .gif and .jpg formats are images.

Answer: A

Correct answer: a printed page containing several slides for the audience to keep

A handout is a printed page carrying several slide thumbnails, given to the audience so they can follow and keep a record. The layout is chosen when printing: one, two, three, four, six or nine slides per page. The three-per-page layout is the one worth knowing, because it places the slides down the left with ruled lines beside each for the audience to write on - which is what most people actually want from a handout. The Handout Master, on the View tab, controls the layout: headers, footers, page numbers, date and the orientation of the page. It should be distinguished from the Notes Pages layout, which prints one slide per page with the speaker’s notes beneath - a document for the presenter rather than the audience. A handout of dense slides is often better than a presentation of them: material too detailed for the screen can go here instead.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Auto Shape categories

The AutoShapes menu on the Drawing toolbar is divided into categories - Lines, Connectors, Basic Shapes, Block Arrows, Flowchart, Stars and Banners, Callouts and Action Buttons. The three named are three of those categories, each holding a set of ready-drawn shapes.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Use the Pack and Go wizard

Pack and Go bundles the presentation with its linked files, the fonts it uses and the PowerPoint Viewer, so the show runs on a machine that has no copy of PowerPoint installed. Saving as a web page loses effects and fidelity, and kiosk mode only changes how the show behaves once PowerPoint is already running.

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: 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.