Word Processing Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and practical skills of word processing using modern software applications. Topics include creating, editing, formatting, and saving documents; working with tables, images, and other elements; and utilizing advanced features such as styles, mail merge, and collaborative editing. Emphasis is placed on producing professional-quality documents, increasing productivity, and understanding best practices for document management in academic and business settings. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in the use of word processing tools to produce a variety of documents efficiently and accurately.
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New Perspectives on Microsoft Word 2013 Comprehensive 1st Edition by S. Scott Zimmerman
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Chapter 1: Creating and Editing a Document
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Q1) Preformatted files in Word (e.g., fax cover sheets, memos) are known as _______.
A) indices
B) templates
C) staged documents
D) default documents
Answer: B
Q2) To select the entire document, press _______.
A) Alt+A
B) Ctrl+A
C) Shift+A
D) Alt+Ctrl+A
Answer: B
Q3) A(n) _______ is text or a graphic you can click to jump to another file or to somewhere else in the same file.
A) icon
B) hyperlink
C) graphic
D) insertion
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Navigating and Formatting a Document
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Q1) Allows you to search for text in the document, with the results highlighted in yellow in the document
A)Navigation pane
B)styles
C)bulleted list
D)numbered list
E)Office Clipboard
F)paragraph-level formatting
G)theme
H)MLA
I)hanging indent
J)page number field
Answer: A
Q2) Although the citation looks like ordinary text, it is actually contained inside a(n) <u>content control</u>. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) You press ____________________ to paste the most recent copied item. Answer: Ctrl +V
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Chapter 3: Creating Tables and a Multipage Report
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Q1) When you sort a table, you arrange the rows based on the ____ of one of the columns.
A) contents
B) subject
C) title
D) fields
Answer: A
Q2) You can enter data in a table by moving the insertion point to a cell and typing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A(n)<u> continuous </u>section break inserts a page break and starts the new section on the next page. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) To sort a column in reverse order, click the ____________________ option button.
Answer: Descending
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Chapter 4: Enhancing Page Layout and Design
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Q1) Santo wants to use most of the graphics his colleagues asked to display with their articles, but his file size has become unmanageable with so many sketches and photos. Santo might be able to reduce his document file size without leaving out content by
A) converting graphics to TIFFs and GIFs
B) use only BMP files
C) saving all graphics as JPEG files
D) converting graphics to PNGs
Q2) A(n) ____________________ is a large letter that begins the text of a paragraph.
Q3) A special design element, called _______, draws the reader's attention to the beginning of an article.
A) WordArt
B) a drop cap
C) photo
D) graphics
Q4) In the accompanying figure, the blue border helps Word narrow the area of focus as it tries to distinguish between the background and the parts of the image you want to keep.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Working With Templates, Themes, and Styles
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Q1) You use the ____________________ in the TOC level list to see the priority assigned to each of the document styles.
Q2) A(n) ____________________ is a file that you use as a starting point to create other files so that you do not have to recreate formatting and text for each new file.
Q3) A(n) ____________________ is a set of formatting options that you can apply to a specific text element in a document.
Q4) Theme ____, such as reflections or shadows, can be used to modify shapes.
A) effects
B) bases
C) standards
D) wizard
Q5) If you frequently need to create a particular type of document, it is a good idea to create your own ____ for that type of document.
A) style
B) theme
C) template
D) form
Q6) A Quick Part is a(n) ____________________ that you create.
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Chapter 6: Using Mail Merge
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Q1) Which of the following would Duncan typically use as a separator character?
A) commas
B) ampersands
C) periods
D) asterisks
Q2) When you finish a merge, you can choose to merge directly to the <u>printer</u>.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n) ____________________ character is used to divide text into individual pieces of data before it is converted into a table.
Q4) To open the Convert Text to Table dialog box, click the _______ tab, click the Table button in the Tables group, and then click Convert Text to Table.
A) FORMAT
B) LAYOUT
C) INSERT
D) CONVERT
Q5) Explain in detail how to combine data with a Microsoft Office Address Lists file.
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Chapter 7: Collaborating With Others and Integrating Data
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Q1) When you create a hyperlink to another document, you need to specify the document's filename and storage location as the hyperlink's _______.
A) source
B) target
C) destination
D) address
Q2) In Excel, the intersection between a row and column is called a(n) ____________________.
Q3) Clementine notices a mistake that her editor failed to catch: the word "the" appears twice in a row in one of his sentences. Clementine edits the document to delete one of the occurrences of the word. However, rather than disappearing, the extra word remains in the document with a strikeout line through it. How can Clementine make the extra word disappear from the document?
A) She can hold down the Shift key when deleting the word.
B) She can hold down the Ctrl key when deleting the word.
C) She can turn off Track Changes before deleting the word.
D) She can hide revision marks before deleting the word.
Q4) OLE stands for ____________________.
Q5) List the steps you must take to compare and merge documents.
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Chapter 8: Customizing Word and Automating Your Work
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Q1) You cannot record mouse operations within the document window while you record a macro.
A)True
B)False
Q2) AutoMacro that runs each time you exit Word
A)Quick Part
B)prompt
C)watermark
D)field
E)instruction
F)switch
G)AutoExec
H)AutoExit
I)ligature
J)text box
Q3) The field code ____ inserts the current page number.
A) {Page}
B) {ThisPage}
C) {CurPages}
D) {CurrentPage}
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Chapter 9: Creating Online Forms Using Advanced Table Techniques
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Q1) You can select multiple adjacent cells and, before you split them, you can specify whether you want them merged into one cell before the split, or whether you want each cell split.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jill wants to make the last cell into two cells without changing the size of the table or adding any new cells, so she _______ the last cell.
A) draws a line in the center of
B) splits
C) merges
D) divides
Q3) Press _______ to update a field.
A) Esc
B) F9
C) Ctrl+F1
D) Shift+Enter
Q4) Explain in detail what repeating section content controls are.
Q5) Most formulas include at least one ____________________, which is a symbol for a value that can change.
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Chapter 10: Managing Long Documents
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Q1) To keep the two parts of the phrase "35 mm" together, you can insert a _______ space between the "35" and the "mm."
A) fixed
B) definite
C) nonbreaking
D) hard
Q2) As shown in the accompanying figure, a(n) ____________________ is the set of values represented in a chart.
Q3) When you insert or create a subdocument, _______ are inserted before and after the subdocuments.
A) page breaks
B) line breaks
C) section breaks
D) document breaks
Q4) A table of figures is a list of captions for all the pictures, charts, graphs, slides or other illustrations in a document, along with the page number of each.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain three advantages of automatically numbering headings.
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Chapter 11: Managing Your Files
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Q1) a compressed folder
A)backslash
B)Large icons
C)Clipboard
D)root directory
E)SkyDrive
F)extension
G)folder
H)archive
I)Details
J)library
Q2) What are the text's three main guidelines for creating folders?
Q3) Deleting folders from the root directory of your hard disk could disrupt the system so that you can't restart or run the computer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) You can open a file using File Explorer by ____________________ it in the right pane of File Explorer.
Q5) A duplicate copy of important files is known as a(n) ____________________.
Q6) In order to use SkyDrive, you need to have a(n) ____________________ account.
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