15 questions
Explanation: Mail merge, envelopes and labels are all on the Mailings tab. References holds the table of contents and footnotes, while Review holds track changes.
Explanation: FALSE, or 0, gives an exact match. TRUE, 1 and omitting the argument all produce an approximate match, because a missing fourth argument is treated as TRUE.
Explanation: The m in .xlsm stands for macro. Macros cannot be saved in .xlsx. The extension .xltx is a template and .csv holds plain data with no formatting or formulas.
Explanation: A purely numeric field is summarised by Sum. If the field contains text or blank cells the default becomes Count, which makes Count a strong distractor. Average and Max must be chosen manually.
Explanation: F7 opens spelling and grammar. Shift+F7 opens the thesaurus, F12 opens Save As, and F1 opens Help.
Explanation: Ctrl+Shift+E toggles track changes. Ctrl+Alt+M inserts a comment, Ctrl+Shift+T reduces a hanging indent, and Shift+F7 opens the thesaurus.
Explanation: Ctrl+Enter inserts a page break. Shift+Enter gives a line break and Ctrl+Shift+Enter a column break. A section break has no direct shortcut and is added from Layout and then Breaks.
Explanation: Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 3 is false because typed chevrons are only plain text. Merge fields must be added through Mailings and then Insert Merge Field, or no data is pulled from the source.
Explanation: COUNTIF is not case-sensitive, so the lower-case approved is also counted. The matches are A2, A4, A6 and A7, giving 4. The answer 3 comes from wrongly assuming case sensitivity.
Explanation: AND is TRUE only when every condition is TRUE. Here 55 is at least 50, which is TRUE, but 72 is not at least 75, which is FALSE. So AND gives FALSE and IF returns Not Eligible.
Explanation: Ctrl+; inserts the current date as a fixed value. Ctrl+Shift+; inserts the time, Alt+= is AutoSum and Ctrl+D fills down.
Explanation: An empty cell is treated as zero, so the result is #DIV/0!. #VALUE! is a data type error, #N/A means a lookup failed, and #REF! means a referenced cell was deleted.
Explanation: Relative references shift with the copy and absolute ones stay fixed. The row moves two steps down, so A1 becomes A3, while $B$1 does not change. The column does not move at all.
Explanation: There are 16,384 columns, from A to XFD, and 1,048,576 rows. The row count is the usual trap. The figures 256 and 65,536 were the Excel 2003 limits.
Explanation: Civil appears in A2, A4 and A6, so the amounts added are 5000 + 7000 + 2000 = 14000. Shortcut: the grand total 21000 minus the non-Civil amounts 7000. The figure 21000 is the total of everything.
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