Exam 8: Powerpoint: Office 2013 and Windows 8 Essential Concepts and Skills

Critical Thinking Questions Case 1 Ellie wants to use Office 2013 for her catering business. For example, she plans to use Word to maintain her collection of recipes, and PowerPoint to present her business plan to potential investors. To get started, Ellie turns to you for help in understanding the components that appear in the Microsoft PowerPoint window. Ellie next asks you about the component located near the top of the window below the title bar. You explain that it provides easy, central access to the tasks performed while creating a document. What is the name of this component?

Tap or click the ____ document thumbnail on the PowerPoint start screen to create a blank PowerPoint document in the PowerPoint window, as shown in the accompanying figure.

To use an app, you must instruct the operating system to ____ the app.

If you delete a file from removable media, it is stored in the Recycle Bin where you can recover it until you empty the Recycle Bin.

If your computer is connected to the Internet, the contents of the Help page reflect both the ____ installed on the computer and material from Microsoft's website.

List and briefly describe at least six of the programs included with Microsoft Office 2013.

To store files and folders on a USB flash drive, you sometimes are required to connect the USB flash drive to an available USB port on a computer.

As shown in the accompanying figure, the _________________________ shows the current slide followed by the total number of slides in the presentation and an icon to check spelling.

The Maximize button changes to the ____ button after you tap or click it.

The buttons, arrows, and boxes on the mini toolbar vary, depending on whether you are using Touch mode versus ____ mode.

Critical Thinking Questions Case 2 Your friend Rita comes to you for help organizing her files, all of which are currently stored on a USB flash drive. You suggest that she create a folder for each class that she is taking. In addition, you suggest that she create folders within each class folder, one for each topic that the class covers. Rita takes your suggestion and creates a folder called Hist201 for her American history class. Inside the Hist201 folder, she creates folders called CivilWar and Slavery. Rita saved a document to one of the folders she created, but now she cannot recall which one. What should she use to locate the document?

In general, what guidelines should you follow as you work on projects in Microsoft Office 2013?

A(n) _________________________ allows you to perform tasks using the keyboard by pressing one or more keyboard keys.

Critical Thinking Questions Case 2 Your friend Rita comes to you for help organizing her files, all of which are currently stored on a USB flash drive. You suggest that she create a folder for each class that she is taking. In addition, you suggest that she create folders within each class folder, one for each topic that the class covers. Rita takes your suggestion and creates a folder called Hist201 for her American history class. Inside the Hist201 folder, she creates folders called CivilWar and Slavery. If the USB flash drive is identified as RITA_USB (E:), which of the following is a possible path for the Slavery folder?

For a right-handed person, the right button usually is the primary mouse button.

One method of changing the size of a window is to drag the window borders.

If the destination and ____folders are on the same media, you can move a file by dragging it.

When you delete a file from a ____ the deleted file is stored in the Recycle Bin.

Tool tabs are also called ____.

_________________________ to a computer opens your user account and makes the computer available for use.