Microsoft Excel
Q:You start Microsoft Excel and you do not want
it to automatically run a macro upon starting.
What will you do?
Ans:Hold down the CTRL key during startup
Q:How does the AutoComplete feature in Excel
help you save time?
Ans: It automatically completes abbreviated
words
Q:The figure shows a view of the Standard
Toolbar. What function is performed by the button
marked by the letter 'Z'?
Ans: It copies the formatting properties from one
cell to another
Q:The figure shows the AutoFit Selection menu
option. What function does it perform?
Ans: It automatically resizes the column height
and width to the minimum necessary to fit the
contents of the selected cell
Q:The figure shows a view of the Standard
Toolbar. What function is performed by the button
marked by the letter 'A'?
Ans: It is used to add a hyperlink
Q:Which of the following options would be used if
you need to insert a 77889867810070809 number
in a cell?
Ans: Apply the Text Format to empty cells, and
then type the numbers
Q:What is the quickest way to select all the
columns on a worksheet?
Ans: Click on the gray rectangle on the upper left
corner of the worksheet where the column
headings and row headings meet
Q:Suppose the value in cell A1 is John and B1 is
Smith then which of the following function you will
use to get the John_Smith in C1 cell?
Ans: A_B
Q:How can you select all the blank cells in your
worksheet?
Ans: This must be done manually as it is not
automated through any built-in feature
Q:The figure shows an Excel worksheet. If you
want to freeze the row showing the months (row
1) and the column showing the products (column
A), what should you do?
Ans: Select the cell A1 and click on Freeze Panes
under the menu Window->Freeze Panes
Q:Which of the following functions would return a
value of 8?
Ans: b and c
Q:You select the row headings 10, 11 and 12 and
then choose the menu option Insert->Rows. What
will happen?
Ans: 3 new rows will be inserted after row 9
Q:The figure shows a view of the Drawing
Toolbar. What function is performed by the button
marked by the letter 'X' ?
Ans: It inserts a Diagram or Organization Chart in
the worksheet
Q:When using Document Workspaces, you cannot
work directly on the Document Workspace copy,
but you can work on your own copy which you
can update periodically with changes that have
been saved to the copy on the Document
Workspace site.
Ans: TRUE
Q:You have created a worksheet which consists
of confidential data. You want that these values,
although present in the worksheet, should remain
hidden and as a result the cells containing this
data should appear blank in the worksheet. Which
method will help you do this?
Ans: Select the cells, open the Window menu and
click on Hide
Q:Which of the following Date and Time function
you will use to return the serial number of the last
day of the month before or after a specified
number of months?
Ans: DATEVALUE
Q:The figure shows a view of the Standard
Toolbar. What function is performed by the button
marked by the letter 'Y'?
Ans: It adds up the values in the selected cells
Q:Which of the following errors appears when an
invalid argument is passed while converting a
number from one number system to another
system?
Ans: #N/A
Q:Which of the following function you will use to
find the highest number in a series of numbers?
Ans: MAB1:B3)
Q:You have entered 4/6 as data in a cell without
applying any formats to it. By default, Excel will
treat this data entry as a:
Ans: Date
Q:What will be the output of the function IF(ISNA
(MODE(B1:B4)),0,MODE(B1:B4)) when it is
applied to the data series given below?
Ans:#N/A
Q:AutoFilter drop-downs are automatically added
in the header row of a list when the list is created.
Ans: TRUE
Q:What does the NOW() function returns?
Ans: Returns the serial number of the current date
and time
Q:Which toolbar is shown in the figure?
Ans: Forms toolbar
Q:When you clear the contents from a cell, the
formatting of the cell is also lost.
Ans: FALSE
Q:You define a print area in your worksheet, but
later you select a smaller range of cells to print
and then click Selection under the menu File-
>Print->Selection. What will happen?
Ans: b