MOS - Microsoft Office Specialist Word: Text & Paragraph Formatting Questions and Answers

Question 1

A user wants to apply the same custom formatting (font, size, and color) from one heading to several other headings throughout a lengthy document. What is the most efficient way to do this?

Accepted Answer

Create a new Quick Style based on the formatted heading and then apply that style to the other headings.

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Manually select each heading and re-apply the formatting options one by one.

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Select the formatted text, double-click the Format Painter, and then click on each subsequent heading.

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Copy the formatted heading and paste it over each of the other headings.

Question 2

You are working on a report and notice that a paragraph is split, with its last line appearing by itself at the top of a new page. What is this formatting issue called, and which paragraph setting should you use to prevent it?

Accepted Answer

A widow; enable 'Widow/Orphan control'

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An orphan; enable 'Keep with next'

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A straggler; enable 'Keep lines together'

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A runover; enable 'Page break before'

Question 3

A user has pasted text from a website, and it has retained its original formatting (blue, underlined, and a different font). Which of the following is the quickest way to remove all character-level formatting and revert the selected text to the default Normal style?

Accepted Answer

Select the text and press Ctrl + Shift + N.

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Select the text and press Ctrl + Q.

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Right-click the text and select 'Clear Formatting'.

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Select the text and manually change the font color, remove the underline, and select the default font.

Question 4

In a formal business proposal, you need to ensure that a specific heading and the paragraph that immediately follows it are never separated by a page break. Which option in the Paragraph dialog box should be used on the heading?

Accepted Answer

Keep with next

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Keep lines together

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Widow/Orphan control

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Page break before

Question 5

Which of the following formatting options is considered paragraph formatting, not character formatting?

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Indentation

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Font Size

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Bold

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Strikethrough

Question 6

A user wants to copy the formatting from a selected block of text and apply it to multiple, non-contiguous sections of text. What is the correct procedure using the Format Painter?

Accepted Answer

Select the source text, double-click the Format Painter icon, then 'paint' the formatting onto each desired section.

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Click the Format Painter once, then hold Ctrl while clicking each new section.

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Right-click the Format Painter and select 'Apply to Multiple'.

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Select the source text, press Ctrl + Shift + C, then select each new section and press Ctrl + Shift + V.