This Computer Awareness quiz on MS Word puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic, 3 of them asked in real previous-year papers. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
When opening a new document in Microsoft Word 2016, the default font size is _________.
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.
Read the full explanation →What is the default file extension of a document created in MS Word 2016?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which tab of the ribbon in MS Word contains the Mail Merge option?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which keyboard shortcut is used to justify a paragraph in MS Word?
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.
Read the full explanation →In MS Word, which function key is used to run the spelling and grammar check?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which shortcut key inserts a page break in an MS Word document?
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.
Read the full explanation →A table of contents is inserted in MS Word from which tab of the ribbon?
The Table of Contents command is the first group of the References tab.
Read the full explanation →The ribbon replaced the menu bar and toolbars in which version of MS Word?
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.
Read the full explanation →In MS Word, Shift + F7 is the shortcut key for which feature?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which among the following keyboard shortcuts is used to insert a hyperlink for the selected text in Microsoft Word?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which feature of MS Word is used to copy the formatting of one portion of text and apply it to another?
The Format Painter is the paintbrush shaped button in the Clipboard group of the Home tab.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following shortcuts is used to select a sentence in a paragraph in MS-Word?
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.
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