MS Powerpoint Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: Insert

Pictures, text boxes, charts, tables, diagrams and movies are all things added to a slide, so they are on the Insert menu.

Answer: D

Correct answer: A named subset of slides from the presentation, shown as a separate sequence

A Custom Show is a named selection of slides from a presentation, played in an order you define, without the slides being deleted or reordered in the file itself. It solves a practical problem: the same deck must be given as a ten-minute overview to one audience and a forty-minute account to another. Rather than keeping two files that drift apart, one file holds every slide and two custom shows draw on it. It is created from the Slide Show tab under Custom Slide Show, and a show can be started from there or linked to with a hyperlink - which allows a menu slide offering several routes through the same material. A slide may appear in several custom shows, and its content is stored once. The related tools serve different purposes: Hide Slide skips individual slides in the main sequence, and Sections group slides for editing rather than for presenting.

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: A

Correct answer: Select the text and press the delete button

Delete simply removes the selection; nothing is placed on the Clipboard, so there is nothing to paste back. Cutting means removing and copying to the Clipboard, which is what Ctrl + X, the Cut button and Edit → Cut all do.

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: .wav files and .mid files

PowerPoint accepts two kinds of sound: .wav files, which store a digitised recording of an actual sound, and .mid (MIDI) files, which store instructions telling the sound card which notes to play. The .gif and .jpg extensions belong to still images and carry no audio at all.

Answer: A

Correct answer: A table slide

Rows of text and figures are read by comparing values across columns, which is exactly what a table is for. Bullets impose a sequence the data does not have.

Answer: D

Correct answer: b and c

A table column is widened either by dragging the vertical gridline between two columns, or by dragging the column marker on the ruler above the table - both adjust the width directly on screen. PowerPoint’s Table menu has no Column Width command; that dialog belongs to Word.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Animations

Slide layouts are composed of placeholders - titles, lists, charts, tables, media. Animation is applied to objects afterwards and is not part of a layout.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Presentation program

PowerPoint builds and delivers presentations - sequences of slides carrying text, images, charts and animation, projected for an audience. Access is the database program, Excel the spreadsheet, and Word the word processor.