In 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
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct answer is D, F5. Pressing F5 anywhere in a presentation closes the editing window and runs the slide show from slide one, whichever slide you were working on. To begin instead from the slide on the screen, the key is Shift + F5, and the pair F5 and Shift + F5 should always be learnt together.
Option A, Alt + F5, does not start an ordinary show from the beginning; in recent versions it opens Presenter View, where the speaker sees notes and a timer. Option B, Ctrl + P, is the print command in editing view, and inside a running show it turns the mouse pointer into a pen for writing on the slide, so it never starts the show. Option C, Alt + Tab, belongs to Windows rather than PowerPoint and merely switches between the open programs on the taskbar.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich 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.
Read the full explanation →In MS PowerPoint, the effect that plays while moving from one slide to the next is applied from which tab?
- A.Design
- B.Transitions
- C.Animations
- D.Insert
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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.
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