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Microsoft Word Certification Practice Test

Questions on the six skill areas of MOS exam MO-110, each answer linked to the Microsoft Support article behind it.

Which choice under Design > Page Color removes the background color of a document?

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Manage documents 18

  • A bound report needs the page number at the outer edge of both left and right pages. Which Header & Footer option lets the two kinds of page differ? Microsoft Support: Create different headers or footers for odd and even pages
  • A heading typed inside a table is missing from the Headings tab of the Navigation pane. Why? Microsoft Support: Use the Navigation pane in Word
  • A manual will be bound along its left edge. Which box in Custom Margins adds extra space so the binding does not hide the text? Microsoft Support: Set gutter margins
  • A report has three sections. With the cursor in the second section, you choose Layout > Margins > Custom Margins and enter new values. Which pages get the new margins? Microsoft Support: Create custom margins
  • The first page shows no page number and the second page should be numbered 1. What value goes in Start at under Format Page Numbers? Microsoft Support: Insert page numbers
  • The header must not appear on the title page. Which Header & Footer option do you check? Microsoft Support: Insert a header or footer
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Manage documents, continued

  • In Word for Windows, where do you set tab characters to show on screen at all times, whether or not Show/Hide is on? Microsoft Support: Show or hide tab marks in Word
  • Under Custom Print, which entry in the Pages box prints page 2 and pages 5 through 7 and nothing else? Microsoft Support: Print a document in Word for Windows
  • Which choice under Design > Page Color removes the background color of a document? Microsoft Support: Add, change, or delete the background color in Word
  • Which command under File > Info finds and removes hidden data and personal information from a document you plan to share? Microsoft Support: Remove hidden data and personal information by inspecting documents, presentations, or workbooks
  • Which file format saves a document as an XML-based template for starting new documents? Microsoft Support: File formats for saving documents
  • Which keyboard shortcut opens the Go To tab of the Find and Replace box, where you can jump to a bookmark by name? Microsoft Support: Add or delete bookmarks in a Word document or Outlook message
  • Which of these names will Word accept for a new bookmark? Microsoft Support: Add or delete bookmarks in a Word document or Outlook message
  • Which ribbon tab holds the Navigation Pane command, which opens the pane for browsing a document by headings or pages? Microsoft Support: Use the Navigation pane in Word
  • Which standard document property does Word also call Tags? Microsoft Support: View or change the properties for an Office file
  • You select one wide table and open the Page Setup dialog box to turn only its pages to landscape. Which Apply to choice does that? Microsoft Support: Change page orientation to landscape or portrait
  • You select Share to invite a colleague to edit a document that is stored only on your PC. Where does Word have you save it first? Microsoft Support: Share a document
  • You want a page border on one page in the middle of a document. What must you do first? Microsoft Support: Add a border to a page

Insert and format text, paragraphs, and sections 18

  • A newsletter page should switch from one column to two halfway down the same page. Which section break goes at the switch? Microsoft Support: Insert a section break
  • A title carries a glow text effect that you no longer want. After selecting the title, which Home tab command removes the effect? Microsoft Support: Add an outline, shadow, reflection, or glow text effect in Word
  • Each chapter of a manual must begin on a new page as a section of its own. Which section break goes before each chapter? Microsoft Support: Use section breaks to change the layout or formatting in one section of your Word document
  • In a works-cited list, the first line of each entry sits at the margin and every later line is indented. Which choice under Special in the Paragraph dialog box sets this? Microsoft Support: Create a hanging indent in Word
  • In Find and Replace you want Word to change 'Polish' and leave 'polish' alone. Which option under More do you select? Microsoft Support: Find and replace text in Word
  • In the Symbol dialog box, which tab lists the nonbreaking space and the nonbreaking hyphen? Microsoft Support: Keep text together in Word
  • On the Layout tab, which two boxes set how much space sits over and under a paragraph? Microsoft Support: Adjust indents and spacing in Word
  • Under Design > Paragraph Spacing, which choice single-spaces the whole document? Microsoft Support: Change the line and paragraph spacing in Word
  • Under Layout > Columns, which choice lets you set your own column format in place of a preset? Microsoft Support: Create multiple columns in Word
  • Which Home tab command adds an outline, shadow, reflection or glow to selected text? Microsoft Support: Add an outline, shadow, reflection, or glow text effect in Word
  • Which keyboard shortcut inserts a column break at the cursor? Microsoft Support: Insert a column break
  • Which pair of shortcuts copies a format and then pastes it, as often as you like, without the Format Painter brush? Microsoft Support: Use the Format Painter
  • With Format Painter you want to copy a paragraph's alignment and spacing as well as its font. What must the selection include? Microsoft Support: Use the Format Painter
  • With nothing selected, which command changes line and paragraph spacing across the entire document? Microsoft Support: Change the line and paragraph spacing in Word
  • The words 'June 30' must never split across two lines. Which shortcut inserts a nonbreaking space between them? Microsoft Support: Keep text together in Word
  • You put an Odd Page section break where page 3 ends. On which page does the next section start? Microsoft Support: Insert a section break
  • You reformat one Heading 1 paragraph by hand and want the Heading 1 style to take on that formatting. What do you choose after right-clicking Heading 1 in the Styles gallery? Microsoft Support: Customize or create new styles
  • You want to copy one heading's formatting onto five other headings, one after another. How do you keep Format Painter switched on? Microsoft Support: Use the Format Painter

Manage tables and lists 18

  • A numbered list must begin at 5. After you right-click the first number, which command opens the Set value to box? Microsoft Support: Change the numbering in a numbered list
  • A numbered list runs on from an earlier list. After right-clicking the number that should begin a new list, which command do you click? Microsoft Support: Change the numbering in a numbered list
  • A table has six rows. You click in row 3 and choose Table Layout > Split Table. Which row becomes the first row of the second table? Microsoft Support: Split a table in Word
  • After you select a cell and choose Table Layout > Split Cells, what does Word ask you to enter? Microsoft Support: Merge or split cells in a table
  • In Adjust List Indents, which box changes the distance between a bullet and its text? Microsoft Support: Change bullet indents in Word
  • In the Convert Text to Table box, which AutoFit behavior resizes the table when the available width changes, as when the page turns to landscape? Microsoft Support: Convert text to a table or a table to text
  • Repeat Header Rows is on, yet the header row is missing after one page break inside a long table. What explains it? Microsoft Support: Repeat table header on subsequent pages
  • Text sits too close to the borders in every cell of a table. Which Table Layout command opens Table Options, where the default cell margins are set? Microsoft Support: Resize a table, column, or row
  • Up to how many levels can the Sort dialog box sort a Word table by? Microsoft Support: Sort the contents of a table
  • What do you type at the start of a line to make Word begin a bulleted list by itself? Microsoft Support: Create a bulleted or numbered list
  • When Word converts text to a table, what in the text tells it where each new row begins? Microsoft Support: Convert text to a table or a table to text
  • Which choice under AutoFit on the Table Layout tab makes the columns of a table fit what is typed in them? Microsoft Support: Resize a table, column, or row
  • Which command on the Bulleted List menu lets you use a picture as the bullet character? Microsoft Support: Define new bullets, numbers, and multilevel lists
  • While you drag a column marker on the ruler, which key shows the exact measurement of the column? Microsoft Support: Resize a table, column, or row
  • Word keeps turning lines that start with an asterisk into bullets. On which tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box do you clear Automatic bulleted lists? Microsoft Support: Turn on or off automatic bullets or numbering in Word
  • You need a table larger than the grid under Insert > Table lets you highlight, and you want to give its size as numbers. Which command on that menu do you use? Microsoft Support: Insert a table
  • You select a one-level bulleted list and choose Home > Sort to put it in alphabetical order. What do you set Sort by to? Microsoft Support: Sort a list alphabetically in Word
  • You select one cell of a table and cannot find Merge Cells on the Table Layout tab. What does Microsoft Support tell you to check? Microsoft Support: Merge or split cells in a table

Create and manage references 6

  • A chapter title is missing from an automatic table of contents. What is the usual cause? Microsoft Support: Insert a table of contents
  • In the Custom Table of Contents dialog box the Modify button is grayed out. What do you change so that you can restyle the entries? Microsoft Support: Format or customize a table of contents in Word
  • What is true of a table of contents made with a Manual Table of Contents style? Microsoft Support: Insert a table of contents
  • Which ribbon tab holds the Insert Footnote and Insert Endnote commands? Microsoft Support: Insert footnotes and endnotes in Word
  • You have just typed a footnote. How do you return to the place in the text that it refers to? Microsoft Support: Insert footnotes and endnotes in Word
  • You reworded two headings. Which Update Table choice brings the new wording into the table of contents? Microsoft Support: Update a table of contents

Insert and format graphic elements 14

  • A logo must stay at one spot on the page while the text around it is edited. Which Layout Options setting holds it there? Microsoft Support: Wrap text and move pictures in Word
  • A story should continue from one text box into a second one. Which Shape Format command joins the boxes so that the text flows on? Microsoft Support: Add, copy, or remove a text box in Word
  • An open program is missing from the Available Windows gallery under Insert > Screenshot. What is the likely reason? Microsoft Support: Insert a screenshot or screen clipping
  • Remove Background is grayed out for a selected image. Which kind of file explains it? Microsoft Support: Remove the background of a picture in Office
  • The Text pane of a SmartArt graphic is not showing. How do you open it? Microsoft Support: Create a SmartArt graphic from scratch
  • Text should wrap around a photo, and the photo should shift up or down when text is added or removed. Which pair of Layout Options sets this? Microsoft Support: Wrap text and move pictures in Word
  • Three shapes sit side by side at different heights. Which Align command lines them up horizontally through their middles? Microsoft Support: Align pictures, shapes, WordArt and other objects in Word
  • What does dragging the 3D control on an inserted 3D model do? Microsoft Support: Get creative with 3D models
  • What is the Alt Text of a 3D model or other object for? Microsoft Support: Get creative with 3D models
  • Which choice under Insert > Pictures opens the library of high quality images and backgrounds? Microsoft Support: Insert pictures
  • Which choice under Insert > Text Box lets you drag out a box of the size you want? Microsoft Support: Add, copy, or remove a text box in Word
  • Which layout option places a picture in a paragraph as if it were text, so that it shifts as text is added or removed? Microsoft Support: Wrap text around a picture in Word
  • Which Picture Format command offers ready-made placements with text wrapping, such as Top Left? Microsoft Support: Wrap text around a picture in Word
  • Which SmartArt type is meant for an organization chart? Microsoft Support: Choose a SmartArt graphic

Manage document collaboration 6

  • A reviewer switches the display to No Markup and sends the file on. What will the next reader find? Microsoft Support: Accept or reject tracked changes in Word
  • What happens to a comment thread when you resolve it? Microsoft Support: Resolve comments in Word for the web
  • Which choice on the Track Changes menu records your own edits and leaves the edits of other people unmarked? Microsoft Support: Track changes in Word
  • Which choice on the Track Changes menu uses a password to keep other people from turning tracking off? Microsoft Support: Track changes in Word
  • Which comments view shows resolved comments together with active ones? Microsoft Support: Using Modern comments in Word
  • With modern comments, which keys post the comment you have just typed? Microsoft Support: Using Modern comments in Word

How this list was compiled: Own questions, sorted by the six skill areas of Microsoft's skills outline for Exam MO-110: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365 Apps), linked from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/mos-word-associate-m365-apps/ (outline PDF https://arch-center.azureedge.net/Learning/Credentials/MO-110_OD_MOS365_Word.pdf, both read 2026-10-09). Facts were read on 2026-10-09 in Microsoft Support articles at support.microsoft.com. Each question names the article it was written from and links to it. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the public Microsoft Support articles named in each question. Nothing is copied or reworded from a Microsoft Office Specialist exam, a Certiport or GMetrix practice product or a question dump.

How it works

This unofficial Microsoft Word certification practice test has 80 questions of our own. It is not affiliated with Microsoft or Certiport. The real exam is tasks done in Word itself.

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What the Word exam covers

Microsoft's skills outline for exam MO-110, read on October 9, 2026, weights six areas: manage documents, 20 to 25 percent; text, paragraphs and sections, 20 to 25; tables and lists, 20 to 25; references, 5 to 10; graphic elements, 15 to 20; collaboration, 5 to 10. The bank is split the same way.

What is not asked here

Every question is multiple choice, and its explanation gives the tab and the command. No screen of the program is shown, and the Word Expert exam, MO-111, is left out.

  • Page borders apply by section. A page that needs a border of its own goes in a section of its own.
  • No Markup only hides tracked changes. Accept or reject them to take them out of the file.
  • Word repeats a table header after automatic page breaks, not after a manual break inside the table.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the Microsoft Word certification exam?

33 to 37 in 50 minutes, by Certiport's exam lengths page read on October 9, 2026. Exam mode here draws 35 questions on a 50-minute clock.

Is the MOS Word exam multiple choice?

No. Microsoft calls MOS exams live-in-the-application: you perform tasks in Word. This page asks where each task lives, so pair it with practice in the program.

What is the passing score for the MOS Word exam?

Microsoft reports Office exam scores from 1 to 1,000, and Certiport's scoring policy puts the passing value at 700. That is a scaled score and not a percent.

Is there still a Microsoft Word 2013 or 2016 certification practice test?

Certiport retired the MOS 2016 certifications on June 30, 2026 and now lists Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019 exams only. This test follows the Microsoft 365 Apps outline. Each linked Microsoft Support article names the Word versions it applies to.

Is this Microsoft Word practice test free?

Yes. All 80 questions and their explanations are free, with no account, and a paper test can be printed.

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