Computer Awareness Quiz: MS PowerPoint

Pressing F5 anywhere in a presentation closes the editing window and runs the slide show from slide one, whichever slide you were working on.

Statement (i) is wrong because Ctrl + N opens a brand new, empty presentation; the key that inserts a new slide into the open presentation is Ctrl + M. Statement (ii) is true: PowerPoint 2016 can save or export a presentation as a PDF through Save As or Export, a…

From PowerPoint 2007 onwards the default save format is the XML-based Open Office format, whose extension is.pptx, and PowerPoint 2016 follows it.

It lays every slide of the deck side by side as a thumbnail, so a slide can be dragged to a new position, copied, hidden or deleted, and the flow of the whole presentation can be judged at a glance.

It adds a fresh slide below the selected slide, using the layout of the current one.

A transition is the visual effect between two slides — Fade, Push, Wipe, Split or Morph — and its gallery, duration, sound and advance timing all sit on the Transitions tab.

Animations act on the objects of a slide — text, shapes, pictures, charts, SmartArt — and fall into four groups: Entrance, Emphasis, Exit and Motion Paths.

Shift + F5 is the "play from here" key, and it saves a presenter from running through a long deck while checking one slide.

The slide master holds the formatting that every slide built on it inherits — title font, body font, bullet style, background, colour scheme and the position of a logo — so one edit there updates the whole deck.

A template stores the theme, masters, layouts and sample content that new presentations are started from, and its extension in the current format is.potx; the older format used.pot.

The Print pane of PowerPoint offers handout layouts of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 slides per page, so nine is the largest number, and the 3-slide layout is the one that leaves ruled lines beside the slides for the audience to write on.

The program was created by Forethought Inc., where Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin designed it, and the first version ran on the Apple Macintosh in 1987.