In MS PowerPoint, pressing Shift + F5 starts the slide show from:
- A.the first slide of the presentation
- B.the slide currently on the screen
- C.the last slide of the presentation
- D.the first hidden slide
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct answer is B, the slide currently on the screen. Shift + F5 is the "play from here" key, and it saves a presenter from running through a long deck while checking one slide. Option A describes plain F5, which always begins at slide one; the pair F5 and Shift + F5 is the distinction the question rests on. Option C is wrong because PowerPoint offers no shortcut to begin a show at the last slide; during a show the End key jumps there instead. Option D is wrong on two counts: hidden slides are deliberately kept out of a normal show, and no shortcut begins a presentation at one. Remember Shift + F5 as "show from the current slide". On the Slide Show tab the same two commands appear as From Beginning and From Current Slide, which is a safer way to recall the pair than the keys alone.
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Practice Questions
View allIn MS-PowerPoint, what is the shortcut key you can press to start the presentation from the first slide?
- A.Alt + F5
- B.Ctrl + P
- C.Alt + Tab
- D.F5
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Pressing F5 anywhere in a presentation closes the editing window and runs the slide show from slide one, whichever slide you were working on.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statement(s) is/are incorrect?
(i) Pressing Ctrl + N in Microsoft PowerPoint adds a new slide to your presentation.
(ii) Presentation can be saved as PDF in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.
(i) Pressing Ctrl + N in Microsoft PowerPoint adds a new slide to your presentation.
(ii) Presentation can be saved as PDF in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016.
- A.Only (i) is false
- B.Only (ii) is false
- C.Both (i) and (ii) are false
- D.Neither (i) nor (ii) is false
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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…
Read the full explanation →What is the default file extension of a presentation created in MS PowerPoint 2016?
- A..ppt
- B..potx
- C..pptx
- D..ppsx
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From PowerPoint 2007 onwards the default save format is the XML-based Open Office format, whose extension is.pptx, and PowerPoint 2016 follows it.
Read the full explanation →Which view of MS PowerPoint displays all the slides of a presentation as small thumbnails so that their order can be changed easily?
- A.Reading View
- B.Notes Page View
- C.Normal View
- D.Slide Sorter View
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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.
Read the full explanation →Which shortcut key is used to insert a new slide in an open MS PowerPoint presentation?
- A.Ctrl + M
- B.Ctrl + N
- C.Ctrl + D
- D.Ctrl + K
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It adds a fresh slide below the selected slide, using the layout of the current one.
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