Computer Awareness GK Questions with Answers – Page 26

The title bar is the strip along the very top of the Excel window, and it carries the name of the open workbook followed by the name of the program, for example Book1 - Excel.

Pressing Shift together with the spacebar selects the whole row that holds the active cell, from column A right across to the last column of the grid.

Holding the Ctrl key and clicking anywhere inside a sentence selects that whole sentence, from its first letter to the full stop that ends it, and the selected sentence can then be deleted, moved or formatted in one action.

The Format Painter is the paintbrush shaped button in the Clipboard group of the Home tab.

With a word or a phrase selected, Ctrl + K opens the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, where the selected text can be linked to a web address, to another file, to a place inside the same document such as a heading or a bookmark, or to an email address.

With the cursor on a word, Shift + F7 opens the thesaurus pane, which lists synonyms and, for many words, antonyms, and lets the chosen word be inserted in place of the original.

The ribbon, a strip of tabs each divided into groups of related commands, was introduced across Microsoft Office in the 2007 release and took the place of the drop down menu bar and the floating toolbars used until then.

The Table of Contents command is the first group of the References tab.

A page break ends the current page at the position of the cursor and pushes everything after it to the top of the next page, so that a new chapter or a new heading always begins on a fresh page even if the matter above it is later edited.

Pressing F7 opens the spelling and grammar checker, which moves through the document word by word, marks a word it does not find in its dictionary and offers a list of suggestions, with the choice of ignoring the word once, ignoring it everywhere or adding it to the dictionary.

Justified alignment stretches the spaces between the words of every full line so that the text touches both the left and the right margin and the paragraph looks like a rectangle.

The Mailings tab holds Start Mail Merge, Select Recipients, Insert Merge Field, Preview Results and Finish and Merge, along with the Envelopes and Labels commands.

From Word 2007 onwards a document is saved by default in the Office Open XML format, whose extension is.docx. The format stores the document as compressed XML parts, which makes the file smaller and easier for a damaged file to be recovered from than the older binary format.

A new blank document in Microsoft Word 2016 opens in the Calibri font at a size of 11 points, and the same pair of defaults is used from Word 2007 through Word 2019.

Virtualization creates a software layer over the physical processor, memory and storage of a machine, so that one server can be divided into several virtual machines, each running its own operating system as though it had hardware of its own.

Computer memory is counted in powers of two because a binary machine addresses memory in twos, so each step up the ladder is 1024 of the unit below it, not 1000.

A computer works on binary digital signals, and an output device turns the processed result into a form a person can see, hear or hold: a monitor shows it as a picture, a printer puts it on paper, a speaker turns it into sound and a plotter draws it.

MS Word is a word processor made by Microsoft, and any program written to do a particular job for the user is application software.

A daisy wheel printer prints by striking the paper, so it is an impact printer. It carries a flat wheel with spokes, each spoke ending in a moulded letter or figure, and the wheel looks like the petals of a daisy, which gives it its name.

In Google Chrome, holding Control and pressing Tab moves to the next open tab on the right, and the pair Control, Shift and Tab moves back to the previous one.