MS PowerPoint was first released in 1987 for which platform?
- A.Microsoft Windows
- B.Apple Macintosh
- C.MS-DOS
- D.Linux
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Apple Macintosh. 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. Microsoft bought Forethought in the same year, which is how PowerPoint entered the Office family. Option A, Microsoft Windows, came later: the first Windows version of PowerPoint appeared in 1990 alongside Windows 3.0, and papers often use the 1990 date as a distractor. Option C, MS-DOS, is wrong because a character-based operating system could not show the graphical slides the program was built for. Option D, Linux, is wrong on dates as well: Linux itself began only in 1991, four years after PowerPoint was released. For the examination, hold the dates together: 1987 for the Macintosh release and for Microsoft buying Forethought, and 1990 for the first Windows version of PowerPoint.
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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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