PowerPoint Certification Printing and Exporting Presentations 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which handout layout in PowerPoint prints three slide thumbnails per page alongside lined areas for audience note-taking?
- 2 Slides
- 3 Slides (Correct answer)
- 4 Slides
- 6 Slides
Correct answer: 3 Slides
The 3 Slides handout layout displays three slide thumbnails with ruled lines beside them, making it ideal for distributing to note-taking audiences.
Question 2: What keyboard shortcut opens the Print dialog box in PowerPoint?
- Ctrl+Shift+P
- Alt+F4
- Ctrl+P (Correct answer)
- Ctrl+F2
Correct answer: Ctrl+P
Ctrl+P opens the Print dialog in PowerPoint, consistent with the standard Windows keyboard shortcut for printing.
Question 3: To print only slides 1, 3, and 7 (non-consecutive), which input format should you use in the Slides field of the Print dialog?
- 1-3-7
- 1;3;7
- 1,3,7 (Correct answer)
- Slides 1 3 7
Correct answer: 1,3,7
Entering '1,3,7' in the Slides field prints only those specific non-consecutive slides; hyphens like '1-3' are used to print a consecutive range.
Question 4: Which PowerPoint print color option removes all gray shading and renders every element as either fully black or fully white?
- Color
- Grayscale
- Pure Black and White (Correct answer)
- High Contrast
Correct answer: Pure Black and White
'Pure Black and White' eliminates all gray tones, converting every element to solid black or white, unlike Grayscale which preserves shading.
Question 5: With the 'Collate' option enabled while printing 3 copies of a 10-slide presentation, in what order does PowerPoint output the slides?
- All 3 copies of slide 1 print before moving to slide 2
- A complete set of slides 1–10 is printed before starting the next copy (Correct answer)
- Slides are interleaved randomly across all three copies
- Slides are sorted alphabetically by title before printing
Correct answer: A complete set of slides 1–10 is printed before starting the next copy
With Collate enabled, PowerPoint prints the full slide sequence (1–10) once before reprinting it for each additional copy, keeping each set together.
Question 6: Which PowerPoint print layout displays each slide on the top half of the page with the corresponding speaker notes printed below it?
- Full Page Slides
- Outline
- 1 Slide Handout
- Notes Pages (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Notes Pages
The Notes Pages layout prints each slide in the upper half with its speaker notes in the lower half, ideal for a presenter's reference copy.
Question 7: What does enabling 'Scale to Fit Paper' in the PowerPoint Print dialog accomplish?
- Permanently resizes the slides to match the paper dimensions
- Adjusts the printed output to fill the printable area of the paper (Correct answer)
- Crops slide content to fit within the page margins
- Converts the slide aspect ratio to match the paper size
Correct answer: Adjusts the printed output to fill the printable area of the paper
'Scale to Fit Paper' resizes the slide output to fill the printable area during printing without permanently altering the original slide dimensions in the file.
PowerPoint Certification Printing and Exporting Presentations 1
Which handout layout in PowerPoint prints three slide thumbnails per page alongside lined areas for audience note-taking?