Lesson: Lesson 3: Character Formatting

 Multiple Choice

1. Where are the text formatting commands located?

a) Mini toolbar

b) Home tab of the Font group

c) Font dialog box

d) all of the above

Ans: d

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: Word provides the text formatting commands in the Font group of the Home tab and using the Mini toolbar.

2. How could you apply bold formatting to selected text?

a) Ctrl + B

b) Click the Bold button on the Mini toolbar.

c) Click the Bold button in Font group of the Home tab.

d) all of the above

Ans: d

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: There are three methods 

3. What is a single letter, number, symbol, or punctuation mark known as?

a) font

b) point

c) character

d) none of the above

Ans: c

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: A character is defined as a single letter, number symbol and punctuation mark.

4. What is a font?

a) set of characters with same formatting

b) set of characters with same design

c) set of characters with same style

d) none of the above

Ans: b

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: Font is defined as a set of characters with the same design.

5. Which of the following would increase the font size of selected text?

a) Grow Font button

b) Increase Font Size button

c) Expand Font button

d) all of the above

Ans: a

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: The Grow Font will increase the font size to the next larger size.

6. This tool can be used to copy and paste formatting.

a) Format Palette

b) Format Painter

c) Format Paste

d) Formatter

Ans: b

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Copying and Removing Formatting

Explanation: The Format Painter will copy and paste formatting from one section to another in a document.

7. When you double-click the Format Painter, where does it allow you to paste formatting?

a) to a single selection

b) to multiple selections

c) both a and b     

d) none of the above

Ans: b

Difficulty: Medium

SeExplanation: Double-clicking the Format Painter will paste formatting to multiple selections.

 ction Ref: Using the Format Painter

8. Where is the Styles group found?

a) Page Layout tab

b) Styles tab

c) Insert tab

d) Home tab

Ans: d

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: The Styles group is found on the Home tab.

9. When modifying a style, you can right-click on the style and choose which option?

a) Modify

b) Change

c) New Style

d) none of the above

Ans: a

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Word provides a quick way to modify the Quick Style Gallery by selecing the style then right-click.

10. Character styles have this lowercase letter next to the style name.

a) s

b) c

c) a

d) e

Ans: c

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Character styles are marked with a character symbol a.

11. If you click the down arrow next to the Underline button and then choose More Underlines, a menu of additional underline styles will appear.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: The Font dialog box will appear.

12. Selecting text and clicking the down arrow next to the Font Color button will open the Font dialog box.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: The color palette will display various options to choose from.

13. Selecting text and then pressing Ctrl + I will result in the text being indented.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: Pressing the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + I,  will result in text being italicize.

14. The tiny lines at the end of characters in some fonts are known as serifs.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: Serif fonts have small lines at the end of characters such as Times New Roman.

15. You can only choose to apply one format to text, such as bold or italics.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: More than one format can be applied to text, such as bolding, iltalics, underlining, highlighting and font color.

16. The Format Painter is used to copy formatting from selected text and then apply the formatting to other text.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Using the Format Painter

Explanation: The user should select the formatted text then click the Format Painter button once to apply the format once or double-click the Format Painter to apply multiple times.

17. To copy and paste formatting to multiple selections, you should double-click the Formatting tool.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Using the Format Painter

Explanation: Double-click the Format Painter to apply to multiple selections.

18. To remove formatting from selected text, click the Clear Formatting button in the Font group of the Home tab.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Removing Formatting

Explanation: Using the Clear Formatting command will removing all formatting and return the text back to the default font.

19. Paragraph styles have a paragraph mark next to the style name.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Paragraph styles are marked with a paragraph symbol ¶.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: When you click the Dialog Box Launcher in the Styles group, the same Quick Styles are displayed as in the Styles Gallery.

21. Quick Styles are predefined formats that can instantly change the look and feel of a document.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Quick Styles are preformatted and ready to use.

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22. A character is any single letter, __________, symbol, or punctuation mark.

Ans: number

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: A character is defined as any single letter, number, symbol, or punctuation mark.

23. A font is a set of __________ that have the same design.

Ans: characters

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: A font is defined a set of characters that have the same design.

24. Font sizes are measured in __________.

Ans: points

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: Point sizes refer to the height of characters with one point equaling approximately 1⁄72 of an inch.

25. Times New Roman is an example of a(n) __________ font.

Ans: serif

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: Serif fonts have small lines at the end of characters.

26. To quickly increase the font size of text, you can select the text and then click the __________ Font button.

Ans: Grow

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: The Grow Font button will increase the font to the next larger size.

27. To quickly decrease the font size of text, you can select the text and then click the __________ Font button.

Ans: Shrink

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: The Shrink Font button will decrease the font to the next smaller size.

28. There is(are) __________ case choices listed when you click the Change Case button.

Ans: five

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Manually Formatting Characters

Explanation: The Change Case menu has five options, Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word, and tOGGLE cASE.

29. The Format Painter tool is found in the __________ group of the Home tab.

Ans: Clipboard

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Using the Format Painter

Explanation: The Format Painter is located in the Clipboard group.

30. To copy and paste formatting to multiple selections, you must __________ the Format Painter tool.

Ans: double-click

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Using the Format Painter

31. Word includes predefined __________ Styles that you can use to format text.

Ans: Quick

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Predefine Quick Styles provides a consistent professional look in a document.

32. To modify a Quick Style, __________ on the style name.

Ans: right-click

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: An existing style can be modified by right-clicking on the style name.

33. Word has two types of styles, Paragraph and __________.

Ans: Character

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Word provides two types of styles, Character and Paragraph. Character styles contain formatting characteristics that can be applied to text, such as font name, size, color, bold, italic, underline, borders, and shading. Paragraph style includes everything that a character style contains, but it also controls all aspects of a paragraph's appearance, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders.

34. Paragraph styles have a(n) __________ mark next to the style name.        

Ans: paragraph

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Paragraph styles are marked with a paragraph symbol ¶.

34. Paragraph styles have a(n) __________ mark next to the style name.        

Ans: paragraph 

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36. When you modify a style, Word automatically __________ the style.

Ans: renames

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: Word will automatically rename the style or the user can key a new style name.

37. The Modify Style dialog box has many basic formatting commands, such as the __________ menu.

Ans: Font

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Formatting Text with Styles

Explanation: The Formatting section has additional menus to select from.