PowerPoint Slide Creation and Design Flashcards
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Which option in the Slide Layout gallery would you choose for a slide that needs a title, a content placeholder, and a picture placeholder side by side?
Answer: Comparison
The Comparison layout provides a title, two content placeholders side by side with individual sub-headings, suitable for placing text next to an image.
How do you insert a new custom slide layout into an existing Slide Master?
Answer: Switch to Slide Master view and click 'Insert Layout'
In Slide Master view, clicking Insert Layout adds a new blank layout beneath the master that you can customize with placeholders.
What is the purpose of the 'Section' feature in PowerPoint?
Answer: It groups slides into labeled regions for easier organization and navigation
Sections allow you to group and label sets of slides, making long presentations easier to organize, navigate, and reorder.
When you right-click a placeholder and choose 'Edit Placeholder', which view must you be in?
Answer: Slide Master view
Placeholders can only be edited (resized, moved, or reformatted) within Slide Master view, not in Normal view.
Which keyboard shortcut duplicates a selected slide in the slide panel?
Answer: Ctrl+D
Ctrl+D duplicates the selected slide (or any selected object) in place, creating an immediate copy.
A user wants to insert a live Excel chart that updates automatically when the source workbook changes. Which paste option achieves this?
Answer: Link Data
Paste Special > Link Data (or Paste Link) creates a live OLE link so the chart updates whenever the source Excel file is modified.
Which PowerPoint view shows slide thumbnails in a grid, making it ideal for reordering and deleting multiple slides quickly?
Answer: Slide Sorter
Slide Sorter view displays all slides as thumbnails in a grid, making drag-to-reorder and bulk-delete operations fast and visual.