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BCA Mid-Term Exam Review

Overal summary of Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Computer History and Shorcut Keys

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Notes page
The ____ view displays your slides on the top of the page with the speaker notes for each slide in the Notes pane on the bottom of the page.
Apply a different design, add lines of text, remove the graphics
What can you do to customize a logo?
Apply to selected slides
Click ____ to apply color schemes to only certain slides.
Alter8800
What was the name of the first PC?
Allen Turing
Who is associated with artificial intelligence?
pen
You can use your pointer as a ____ to draw or write on a slide while running a presentation.
Snap to, grid settings, and guide settings
The Grid and Guides dialog box allows you to make changes to ____.
Personal information (name, street address, etc.) of the user
What is included in the Personal Information dialog box?
save
Click the ____ button to save changes to your presentation.
Angle brackets
The merge fields that you place in a Word document are enclosed in ____.
autoshapes
You can add a variety of shapes by clicking the ____ tool on the Drawing toolbar.
New
The ____ Record navigation button adds a new record to the database.
Show Type
____ determines how the show will be viewed.
Calendar, coupons, and reply forms
Which of the following can you add to your publishing projects?
.html
A presentation attached to an e-mail is sent in ____ format.
slides
The ____ tab displays your slides as small pictures or thumbnails.
Osborne1
What was the name of the first portable computer?
Size, color, and distance between bullets
You can change the ____ in a bulleted list.
Font, style, size
Which form attributes can you change in Design view?
Font size and font style
You can use the Formatting toolbar as a shortcut to changing which of the following options?
Design set
A series of documents that incorporate the same design is called a(n) ____.
Doug Engelbar
Who invented and patented the first computer mouse?
View show
To view a presentation, select ____ from the Slide Show menu on the menu bar.
IBM
The Tabulating Machine Co. became what company today?
datasheet
The table that contains data for a chart is called a ____.
Univac
Which computer was the first sold commercially in the U.S. and installed at the U.S. Census Bureau?
Crl+Z
Undo
Save as webpage
To convert an existing presentation to a Web page, choose ____ on the File menu.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniac
Who founded Apple Computers?
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Who used punched cards on his fully automated loom?
Outline
____ mode allows you to edit text in the outline, and changes are automatically made on the slide.
Enter search conditions for the fields you want to search
The Criteria row, located at the bottom of the query window, allows you to ____.
Hermin Hollerith
Who used punched cards to tabulate data in the U.S. census?
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Who founded Microsoft?
Ctrl or Shift
Use ____ to select more than one object on a slide.
Handouts, slides, notes page, and outline view
You can choose the ____ option when printing your presentation.
Table Wizard
Clicking the ____ option in the New Table dialog box will guide you step-by-step through the process of creating a table.
Ethernet
What did Robert Metcalfe create to link computers?
Status bar
The ____ appears at the bottom of your screen.
One-to-many
The ____ option is the most common type of relationship.
Charles Babbage
Who was considered to be the Founding Father of Computing?
Personal information set
You would use a(n) ____ to store information about your business, organization, or home.
My Objects
To insert a new design object into Design Gallery, select the ____ tab.
Text, clip art, and video clips
A presentation can include ____.
Database Management System
DBMS stands for ____.
Tim Burners Lee
Who developed the Web as a research tool?
table
To modify borders in a table, choose ____ on the Format menu.
Click directly on the item you want to change
To make changes to a business card, ____.
Undo; Ctrl+Z
If an object is deleted by accident, use the ____ command to restore it.
Blank presentation, autocontent wizard, and design templates
The ____ option is a choice when creating a presentation.
Ada Augusta Byron
Who was considered by some to be the first computer programmer?
Keep a consistent format throughout the projects
The purpose of the Design Set option is to ____.
Text
The ____ data type allows letters and numbers and can hold up to 255 characters.
Tabular
The ____ layout creates a form similar to Datasheet view.
Grace Hopper
Who was an early computer pioneer who worked on the construction of the Mark II and the creation of COBOL?
Effect options
You can select the ____ feature for playing videos or sound clips.
Consistent, error-free, and visually appealing
An effective presentation should be ____.
Ready-made objects that you can quickly insert into your project
Design Gallery objects are ____.
Filter by selection
Which type of filter allows you to highlight a value or part of a value in a field as the criteria for the selection?
Ctrl+X
Cut
Ctrl+A
Select All
Specific layout
Which is not an option for starting a publication project?
Gradient, texture, or pattern
In the Fill Effects dialog box, you can change the ____.
Best Fit
In the Column Width dialog box, you can click the ____ button to automatically select the width for the data in the column.
Main document, data source, label options
Which options do you specify when creating mailing labels?
Properties
You must open the ____ dialog box to create a calculated control on a form.
From on page to another
Page navigators allow you to move quickly ____.
Layout
When creating a report, ____ options let you choose how you want the data arranged on a page.
Slide master
The ____ controls the formatting for all of the slides in a presentation.
replace
Click the ____ option to replace the next occurrence of text.
Undo button
Which option describes a way to undo changes in a cell?
Grouping
____ allows you to work with several items as if they were one object.
Parentheses
In the Slide Navigator view, ____ indicate that a slide is hidden.
Using the Page Navigator in the lower-left section of the screen
You can switch from Page 1 to Page 2 in a publication by ____.
open an existing document that is not listed
Choosing More allows you to ____.
Table
Which database object stores data in a format similar to that of a worksheet?
64
A report name can have up to ____ characters.
Placeholder
A(n) ____ reserves a place on the slide for clip art, charts, and text.
Title
The ____ master lets you format the first slide of your presentation.
Ctrl+C
Copy
Ctrl+V
Paste
Blank publication
You would use the ____ option to create a document from scratch.
Letters, numbers, spaces, and some special characters
A report name can include ____.
Subcategories
A wizard with an arrow next to it indicates that it ____.
PARC
What did Xerox establish to perform basic computing and electronics research?
New from a design task pane
When you start Publisher, the ____ appears on the left of the screen.

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