Unit 5: MS Word - Practice Quiz

1 Which keyboard shortcut opens the Find tool in MS Word?

2 Which feature can change every occurrence of one word to another word?

3 Which list type uses symbols such as circles or squares before each item?

4 Which list type is most suitable for showing steps in a specific order?

5 Where does a header normally appear on a document page?

6 Which item is commonly placed in a footer?

7 What are the horizontal sections of a table called?

8 What is the box formed by the intersection of a row and a column called?

9 Which setting controls whether a table is placed on the left, center, or right of the page?

10 Which table property can be used to set the vertical size of a row?

11 What is the main purpose of the spell checker in MS Word?

12 What does the Ignore option usually do during a spelling check?

13 What does the grammar checker mainly examine?

14 Which sentence contains a grammar error?

15 What does AutoCorrect commonly do while you type?

16 If AutoCorrect changes "teh" to "the," what has it corrected?

17 What is a synonym?

18 Which word is a synonym of "happy"?

19 What is the main purpose of the Thesaurus in MS Word?

20 When might you use the Thesaurus while editing a document?

21 A document contains the word cat as well as words such as catalog and category. You want to replace only the separate word cat with dog. Which Find and Replace option should you use?

22 All occurrences of the word Draft are bold, and you want to remove the bold formatting without changing the text. What should you do in the Replace dialog box?

23 A numbered list restarts at 1 after a normal paragraph, but it should continue from the previous list. Which command should you apply?

24 While creating a multilevel numbered list, you want the current item to become a subordinate item under the preceding entry. Which action is most appropriate?

25 A report's title page should not display the page number that appears on all later pages. Which header and footer setting should you enable?

26 A document has two sections. When you change the second section's header, the first section's header also changes. What should you do first?

27 Your cursor is in the final cell of a Word table, and you need to add another row at the bottom quickly. Which key should you press?

28 You want one centered heading to span all four columns in the first row of a table. Which operation should you perform on that row?

29 A table's columns keep changing width when longer text is entered. You want the column widths to remain fixed. Which setting should you disable?

30 A table row containing several lines is divided between two pages. You want the entire row to move to the next page instead. Which row property should you clear?

31 A correctly spelled company name is underlined as a spelling error throughout many documents. What is the most suitable long-term action?

32 You want Word to check spelling only in one selected paragraph rather than in the entire document. What should you do?

33 Word flags the sentence The list of items are on the desk. Which revision best corrects the subject–verb agreement?

34 Word marks a sentence as a grammar problem, but the sentence is intentionally written that way for dialogue. You want to leave only this occurrence unchanged. Which action should you choose?

35 You frequently type msoffice and want Word to replace it automatically with Microsoft Office. What should you create?

36 Word has just applied an unwanted AutoCorrect replacement while you are typing. What is the quickest way to reverse that replacement immediately?

37 In the sentence The instructions were clear, you want a synonym for clear that means easy to understand. Which replacement best preserves the meaning?

38 A paragraph repeats the word important several times. You want to replace one occurrence with a suitable synonym directly from Word's shortcut menu. What should you do?

39 You select the word light and open Word's Thesaurus. Several groups of alternatives appear. Why should you examine the meaning groups before choosing a replacement?

40 A student wants to explore several alternatives for the selected word rapid without replacing it immediately. Which Word tool is most appropriate?

41 A document contains names in the form Smith, John. Which wildcard Find and Replace operation changes them to John Smith while preserving both name parts?

42 The Use wildcards option is enabled. You need to replace every literal question mark with an exclamation mark. What should be entered in the Find what box?

43 A long report requires headings numbered 1, 1.1, and 1.1.1. The numbers must update automatically when headings move, and the headings must remain available to the table of contents. Which method is most reliable?

44 After an unnumbered paragraph, a pasted list begins again at 1 instead of continuing the earlier list at 6. Future insertions above it must still renumber the pasted items automatically. What should you do?

45 Section 2 must have a different header from Section 1, while Section 1's header must remain unchanged. Section 2 currently displays Same as Previous. What is the essential action before editing it?

46 A new chapter must begin in a new section, display no header on its opening page, show a header on later pages, and restart page numbering at 1. Which configuration satisfies all requirements?

47 A table flows naturally across several pages. Its column headings must appear automatically at the top of every page without copying them manually. Which action is required?

48 A Word table contains the formula =SUM(ABOVE). After a value above the formula changes, the displayed total remains unchanged. What is the appropriate correction?

49 A multi-line table row is moving entirely to the next page, leaving excessive blank space on the preceding page. The row should be allowed to continue across the page boundary. Which setting should be changed?

50 Text is being clipped vertically in several table rows because each row has a fixed height. The rows should retain a minimum height but expand for longer content. Which change is appropriate?

51 An entire paragraph containing obvious misspellings is skipped by the spell checker. Its proofing status shows Do not check spelling or grammar. What should be done?

52 A valid organization-specific term appears in many documents and is repeatedly flagged as misspelled. It must remain unchanged and be accepted in future documents on the same computer. Which action is best?

53 Spelling errors are underlined as the user types, but grammar errors appear only after manually running Editor. Which proofing option most directly enables live grammar marking?

54 Word flags an intentional sentence fragment inside a quotation. The quotation must remain exact, and only this occurrence should stop appearing in the current review. What is the most suitable response?

55 A company abbreviation should expand into a product name that always appears in bold and italics. Which AutoCorrect setup preserves that formatting whenever the abbreviation is expanded?

56 AutoCorrect incorrectly capitalizes the word following the abbreviation Dept. because it treats the period as the end of a sentence. How should this recurring behavior be corrected?

57 In the sentence The committee imposed a light penalty, which replacement best preserves the contextual meaning and grammatical role of light?

58 A suggested synonym has the right general meaning but the wrong grammatical form for its sentence. What is the most reliable editing approach?

59 The Thesaurus displays several groups for the word bank, including meanings related to finance and river edges. How should a writer choose a replacement for The bank approved the loan?

60 A writer needs an antonym of scarce while keeping the adjective role in Resources were scarce. What is the best use of Word's Thesaurus?