1. The letters a s d f j k l ; are collectively known as which group of keys?
A middle keys
B letter keys
C numeric keys
D home row keys
2. Ling just finished typing his report on Canada and needs a paper copy to give his teacher. Which command would he use?
A print
B center
C underline
D save
3. Mike is entering a story he wrote into a word processing program. He types the letters ver in the word "very" and notices that the word will not fit on that line. Mike should
A press the Escape key
B press the Return key
C just keep typing
D press the Tab key
4. Which of the following keys is used to indent a paragraph?
A tab
B shift
C esc
D enter/return
my trip to the beach
last may I decided that needed some seashells for my report in social studies so I asked my mother, can we go to the beach this weekend She became very excited and said that was a wonderful idea
You have used word processing to compose the story above; however, you need to make some formatting and editing changes.
5. In the above story you notice that there are no capital letters. To capitalize the first letter in a sentence and the word "I", the most efficient way would be to
A hold down the Shift key
and type the letter
B highlight the letter, hold down the Shift key and type the letter
C press caps lock and type the letter
D leave it alone
6. The Caps Lock key is used to
A get
the character on the top of a two-character key
B make one capital letter
C type something in all capital letters
D make your document look neat
7. Sally typed North Carolina and realized she had made a mistake. Which special key would she use to correct her mistake?
A tab
key
B shift key
C delete key
D spacebar key
8. For correct keyboarding, what is the recommended placement of fingers on home row keys
A fingers of the left
hand on A-S-D-F and fingers on the right hand on J-K-L-;
B fingers of the right hand on A-S-D-F and fingers on the left hand on J-K-L-;
C fingers of the left hand on A-S-E-F and fingers of the right hand on J-K-O-P
D fingers of the left hand on Q-W-E-R and fingers of the right hand on U-I-O-P
9. When you get to the end of a line and continue typing
A the text will wrap to
the next line
B you will get a computer error
C the text will move off of the screen
D the letters will write on top of each other
10. Word processing would be used to do which of the following
A sort information
B calculate your allowance for a year
C search the Media Center catalog for a book
D write a letter
11. Which application is used to write letters or reports?
A
spreadsheet
B database
C paint/draw
D word processing/desktop publishing
12. To insert spaces between words in a document, use the
A tab key
B shift key
C delete key
D spacebar key
13. Which special key needs to be held down with this key to make a percentage sign?
A enter/return
B caps lock
C tab
D shift
14. Tom is typing a poem using word processing. One verse is repeated every other line. What would be the quickest to enter the repeated verse?
A type the verse each
time
B copy the verse on a copy machine, then cut and paste it
C use copy and paste commands
D highlight the text and change the style to bold
15. Sara typed the following sentence: The girl was very beautiful. Which word processing tool would she use to find a synonym for beautiful?
A spell checker
B outliner
C thesaurus
D grammar checker
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16.The example above uses a web address as the citation of where the article was
found. How was it formatted?
A left aligned
B centered
C right aligned
D spaced over
17. Opening a file and correcting misspelled words is an example of
A
deleting a file
B formatting a file
C printing a file
D editing a file
18. When a line gets too long and the extra words are moved automatically to the next lines as you key, this is known as
A wordiness
B page format
C page layout
D word wrap
my trip to the beach
last may I decided that needed some seashells for my report in social studies so I asked my mother, can we go to the beach this weekend She became very excited and said that was a wonderful idea
You have used word processing to compose the story above; however, you need to make some formatting and editing changes.
19. In the above story to align the title evenly between the left and right margins, you would
A tab 3 times
B press the spacebar 10 times
C use the center command
D delete the text and type it again
20. In the above story there is no period at the end of the first sentence (between studies and so). How would you most efficiently place a period there?
A
place the cursor after the s in so and type the period
B place the cursor after the final s in studies and type the period
C delete the word studies and retype the word and a period
D highlight the first sentence and retype it with the correct punctuation
21. In the above story the period after the word weekend should be a question mark. How would you change the punctuation?
A. place the cursor to
the right of the period, press the Backspace/Delete key, hold down the Shift
key, type the "?"
B erase the period and type the "?"
C highlight the period and type an "!"
D place the cursor to right of the period, press the backspace/delete key, press
the caps
lock, type the "?"
22. The word processing commands that allow text to remain in place and also be duplicated to a new place is called
A copy
and paste
B copy and move
C cut
and paste
D cut and move
23. To retrieve a file means to
A Save a file.
B Open a file.
C Delete a file.
D Move a file.
24. Which of the following documents could be created in a word processing or desktop publishing program?
A class newsletter
B graph of student survey
C slide show
D web page
25. If you press ONLY the Shift key, what would be the result?
A
nothing
B a capital letter is typed
C a character is erased
D a lower case letter is typed
26. The feature in word processing that allows you to easily move paragraphs in a document is called
A move
B cut & paste
C copy & replace
D switching
27. The way that text is arranged between the margins is called
A
centered
B alignment
C italics
D underlined
28. Cut, Copy, Paste are known as what type of commands?
A deleting
B editing
C formatting
D saving
29. To enlarge text in a word processing document, the user would select a larger
A character
B font
C margin
D style
30. After you Cut or Copy a word from a paragraph, which editing command would you use to place the word in a new location?
A search
B glue
C paste
D match
31. Beth wrote a story using word processing. She saved the file on a floppy disk. Today she wants to edit her story. What must she do before she can edit the story?
A copy
the file
B save the file
C delete the file
D open the file
32. What device (tool) is most commonly used to enter text into a word processing report?
A mouse
B printer
C monitor
D keyboard
33. Storing a document for later use is called
A creating
B editing
C printing
D saving
34. You should save a word processing document
A only at the very beginning
B only
when your teacher tells you
C early and often
D after you print
35. Mrs. Jones has told Conchita that she needs to add a closing paragraph to the draft of her two-page report she created last week. Which of the following is the best way to move to the bottom of her report?
A press the arrow keys
B use the tab key
C use the vertical scroll bar
D use the enter/return key
36. The most efficient way to erase an entire paragraph is to:
A hold down the
Backspace/Delete key
B highlight the paragraph and press the Erase key
C hold down the Spacebar
D highlight the paragraph and press the Backspace/Delete key
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