UNIT 5 DIGITAL PRESENTATION

1. What is a Presentation?
Answer: A presentation consists of a set of electronic
pages called slides. Each slide may contain some text
elements, graphics, animation, video and sound etc.

2. Write any five characteristics of a good presentation.

Answer: Five characteristics of a good presentation:
1. Keep information limited and to the point
2. Use minimal text
3. Use less number of slides.
4. Use appropriate design template or theme
5. Choose appropriate font.

3. What is presentation software? Explain by giving

examples.
Answer: A presentation software is a special type of
application program that allows us to create presentations
by combining text, pictures, movie & sound clips,
animation, charts, graphics and other multimedia tools.

4. What are the basic elements of a presentation? Give a

brief description of each element.
Answer: Elements of a presentation:
1. Title and subtitle text
2. Bulleted text and plain text in text boxes.
3. ClipArt, pictures, Graphics, and charts etc.
4. Speakers Notes and Narration
5. Sound, video and Animation
5. What is a slide?
Answer: A digital presentation is actually a collection of a
number of electronic pages called slides. Information in
the form of various elements such as text, videos,
animation, sound, tables and charts etc.

6. Write in brief about different types of presentation

views.
Answer:
1. Normal View: This is the default PowerPoint view that
displays one slide at a time in the center of the window.
2. Notes Page View: This view displays your slide notes in
a page view. You can access the notes page view from
presentation views group in the view tab.
3. Slide Sorter view: The slide sorter view is the thumbnail
view of all the slides in a presentation.
4. Slide show view: The slide show view is the full screen
view in which you can see your presentation the way your
audience will see it.

7. What is the use of slide sorter view?

Answer: Use of slide sorter view:
1. The slide sorter view gives you an overall picture of the
presentation, making it easy to reorder, add, or delete
slides.
2. The reordering of the slides is easy in the slide sorter
view as you can see the thumbnail form of all the slides
together. You just need to drag and drop the slides to
reorder them.
8. What is the extension of PowerPoint presentation files?
Answer: The extension of PowerPoint presentation files
is .pptx.

9. How will you delete a slide from a presentation?

Answer: To delete the slide follow the steps:
1. Right click on a slide that you want to delete.
2. Click on delete slide option on drop down list.
3. Slide will be deleted.

10. How will you run a slide show from the currently
selected slide?
Answer: To run a slide show from the currently selected
slide follow the steps:
1. Click on Slide show tab
2. Click on ' From current slide' option
3. Currently selected slide will show.

11. Which view is used to show just single slide with all its
contents?
Answer: Normal view is used to show single slide with all
its contents.

12. Rama is preparing a presentation on her company's

annual performance. She wants to include a few pictures
from the PowerPoint clip art gallery. How can she do it?
List all the required steps.
Answer: To insert picture follow the steps:
1. Click on insert tab
2. Click on Clip Art from Illustration group. ClipArt right
will be display.
3. Type picture name in search box.
4. Click any picture that you want to insert.
5. Picture will be inserted.

13. What is the maximum zoom percentage available in

MS PowerPoint?
Answer: Maximum zoom percentage available in MS
PowerPoint is 400%.

14. Suman is working as a marketing manager in an

advertising company. She has prepared a presentation on
her latest product. What features will be used for the
following tasks?
a. To view all slides together
b. To change the order of the slides
c. To show the sales using a chart
Answer:
a. To view all slides together she will use slide sorter view
option.
b. To change the order of the slides she will use drag and
drop option in slide sorter view.
c. To show the sales using a chart she will use chart option
from illustration group on insert tab.

15. What is the slide master? What is the main advantage

of using slide master in a presentation?
Answer: A slide master or master slide is a special type of
slide that stores information about the theme and slide
layouts of a presentation.
Advantage: We can use the slide master of a presentation
to make the same changes to all the slides or only to the
slides that use a specific layout in a presentation.
16. What is the use of image formatting in PowerPoint?
Answer: Formatting images includes moving, resizing,
and rotating the image to have maximum impact on the
audience.

17. Write the steps to insert a duplicate slide in a

presentation.
Answer: To insert a duplicate slide in a presentation
follow the steps:
1. Click on the slide for create duplicate slide
2. Select duplicate slide option from drop down list.
3. Duplicate slide will be created of selected slide.